HARDCOVER FICTION
Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years by the shared experience of profound loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love.
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
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Mab has just traded Harry’s skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains—led by one of Harry’s most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone—to break into the highest-security vault in the Nevernever. It’s a smash and grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world—which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character.
Red or Dead by David Peace
Joe’s new release pick of the day! “David Peace, author of the acclaimed Red Riding Quartet, returns to the world of football/soccer with this novel about Bill Shankly, the working class socialist manager who saved Liverpool in the 60s. Peace is one of the best contemporary British novelists and Red or Dead is one of the best books of 2014.”
The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson
Meghan‘s new release pick of the day! “This book is really good, you guys! There are schemes. There are plots. There are plots within plots. There’s intrigue. There’s a whole host of great kids to get to know (led by the impossibly charming, not-so-reformed con artist Jackson Greene). There’s a TWIST you won’t see coming. And all the while the fate of the class presidential election hangs precariously in the balance. Will evil triumph? Or will good old-fashioned trickery save the day? Talk about keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat DRAMA!”
Gottland by Mariusz Szczygieł
Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with everyone from filmmakers to writers to pop stars to ordinary citizens, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times—equally funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd . . . in a word, Kafkaesque
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
C. Popp’s new release pick of the day! “Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life is amusing and thought provoking from the onset, answering such questions as where Robbins developed the uncanny ability to understand and favorably present the female and her psyche. He explains his inclination to fuse in his novels ‘the tragic with the comic, the ugly with the beautiful, the romantic with the gritty, fantasy with reality, mythos with logos, the sensible with the goofy, the sacred with the profane.’”
My Struggle: Book Three by Karl Ove KnausgaardA family of four–mother, father and two boys–move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family’s trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, Book Three gives us Knausgaard’s vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time’s passing, memory, and existence.
PAPERBACK FICTION
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
Molly’s new release pick of the day! “Joel Dicker follows in the tradition of William Faulkner and Philip Roth, and much of the novel reads as a Southern Gothic transplanted onto a northern vacation town… Dicker’s novel comes in at a whopping 640 pages, but don’t worry about the length – he keeps his plot moving at a steady pace and ramps up slowly over the last three hundred pages to one of the most satisfying conclusions I have ever found in a mystery novel.”
& Sons by David Gilbert
Consuelo’s new release pick of the day! “& Sons covers so much territory – exploring heart-wrenching family dynamics, the price of genius, mortality, fact vs. fiction vs. truth. It is messy in a controlled way. Even when it’s throwing a mind-blowing plot twist at you halfway through, it never becomes unhinged. It unravels and then pulls itself back together again into a glorious work of fiction.”
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