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FICTION Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill Cargill appears here Thursday 5/15. Raul's new release pick of the day! “Colby Stevens has got a major problem: a young woman from his past has become something unearthly and menacingly dangerous. She is aggressively recruiting all the evil things of the night into an army. … Continue reading New Releases 5/13/14
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Julie: "This powerful novel about a woman kidnapped for ransom in Haiti grabbed me from the first sentence and held me, riveted and breathless, to the very last page. Gay is unflinching as she conveys the emotional, psychological and physical devastation of Mirielle Jameson during and following her captivity. Mirielle's … Continue reading Recommended Reads May 2014
HARDCOVER FICTION Monday, Monday by Elizabeth Crook The Statesman Selects Pick of the Month! Join us for the launch event tonight at 7p! On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began … Continue reading New Releases – 4/29/14
HARDCOVER FICTION Frog Music by Emma Donoghue From the bestselling author of Room comes a new novel. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Full of songs … Continue reading New Releases – 4/1/2014
HARDCOVER FICTION Every Day is For the Thief by Teju Cole For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, this is new fiction from Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, Open City was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young Nigerian living in … Continue reading New Releases – 3/25/2014
HARDCOVER FICTION Stone Cold by C. J. Box Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is about a mysterious man living on a massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming, but he discovers a lot more than … Continue reading New Releases – 3/11/14
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. … Continue reading New Releases – 2/11
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash On Sale 1/28/14 We had the pleasure of hosting a conversation between Wiley Cash and Ben Fountain earlier this year where Cash discussed his previous novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, a bestseller which was also named a New York Times Notable Book (and appeared on many Best of 2012 … Continue reading Books to Look Forward to In 2014: Part Two
_____________________________________________ HARDCOVER FICTION Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q series, continues with the most chilling cold case yet. In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More … Continue reading New Releases-12/31
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