New Releases – 2/11

HARDCOVER FICTION

The Parallel Apartments by Bill Cotter
Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits each hurtling toward their own calamities, and, ultimately, toward each other.

Bill Cotter will be at the store on Tuesday, Feb 25 at 7PM speaking & signing copies of The Parallel Apartments. Click here for more information & to pre-order your signed copy.

The Bear by Claire Cameron
A powerful suspense story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart. Cameron gracefully plumbs Anna’s young perspective on family, responsibility, and hope, charting both a tragically premature loss of innocence and a startling evolution as Anna reasons through the impossible situations that confront her.

The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn’t quite sure how it will change him or his city. When he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair.

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters, sometimes too unbreakable.

Thirty Girls by Susan Minot
The long-awaited novel from the best-selling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa. With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa’s beauty and its horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitious novel yet.

Wake by Anna Hope
Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives. The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place.

The Martian by Andy Weir
astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

HARDCOVER NON-FICTION

Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany’s Secret War & The Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum
“In 1915, while Europe was in the throes of the Great War and America was wholly committed to keeping itself neutral, the Imperial German Intelligence services launched a savage and very secret war on American. Blum’s book reads like a combination of police procedural and white knuckle thriller.” ~  Raul

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich’s scientific minds. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler’s scientists and their families to the United States.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.

PAPERBACK NON-FICTION

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
In a tour-de-force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden’s astonishing story—from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow.

The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See: Unseen Masterpieces by the World’s Greatest Directors by Simon Braund
A movie can boast a legendary director, a superlative script, and the hottest stars, but studio jitters, spiraling budgets, on-set clashes, and overreaching ambition can all conspire to keep it from being made. Even events off-set can conspire to stop the mightiest movies in their tracks.

YOUNG ADULT

White Space: Book One of the Dark Passages by Ilsa J. Bick
In the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult novel about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines.

The Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.