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HARDCOVER FICTION
Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The latest in the series of books that inspired the hit Showtime series Dexter. Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.
***MysteryPeople welcomes Jeff Lindsay here to BookPeople tomorrow, Wed 10/19 7p, to speak & sign Double Dexter.***
Infernals by John Connolly
John Connolly is the Dublin-born author of the Charlie Parker mystery series for adults, among other works. His novel The Book of Lost Things, described as “a fairy tale for adults,” won a 2005 Alex Award from the ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association as an adult book with special appeal to teens. This new novel is a sequel to his bestselling YA novel The Gates. This time, young Samuel Johnson and his faithful dachshund Boswell finds himself crossing paths with some very bad-tempered dwarfs, an ice cream man, and two indignant policemen, all of whom find themselves in Hell when the portal opens again.
***MysteryPeople will welcome John Connolly to speak and sign The Infernals, as well as his Charlie Parker novels, on Sunday, November 6, 4pm. ***
Damned by Chuck Pahlaniuk
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell.This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on endless repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell.
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain.Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.
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HARDCOVER NONFICTION
Holy Ghost Girl by Donna Johnson
She was just three years old when her mother signed on as the organist of tent revivalist David Terrell, and before long, Donna Johnson was part of the hugely popular evangelical preacher’s inner circle.Thousands of followers, dubbed “Terrellites” by the press, left their homes to await the end of the world in cultlike communities. Jesus didn’t show, but the IRS did, and the prophet/healer went to prison. At seventeen, Donna left the ministry for good, with a trove of stranger-than-fiction memories. A homecoming like no other, Holy Ghost Girl brings to life miracles, exorcisms, and faceoffs with the Ku Klux Klan. And that’s just what went on under the tent.
***Donna Johnson will be here to speak about & sign Holy Ghost Girl on Wednesday, October 26th, 7p. ***
Journals of Spalding Gray, edited by Neil Casey
Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as Swimming to Cambodia. Culled from more than five thousand pages and including interviews with friends, colleagues, lovers, and family, The Journals of Spalding Gray gives us a haunting portrait of a creative genius who we thought had told us everything about himself—until now.
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