New from Harper Voyager

 

This Shattered Tempest by Thea Guanzon "Thea Guanzon’s talent is limitless, and she is the kind of writer that comes around once in a generation. Mark my words: lives will be changed by The Hurricane Wars trilogy.” —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author The highly anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Hurricane Wars trilogy makes landfall—and as the winds of war sweep through Lir, Talasyn and Alaric must confront the truth of their hearts and decide whether duty or desire will lead them forward.

 

The Book of the Dead edited by Jonathan Strahan Brand new stories of murder, myth, and misadventure.  From award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan comes an intricately compiled collection of original stories about death in all its various incarnations from Garth Nix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Tamsyn Muir, and nearly two dozen other fantasy, science fiction, and horror icons, plus stunning illustrations from Galen Dara.

As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers "There is nothing I look forward to more than a new book by Becky Chambers. That she writes with such light and compassion in such troubled times, is a miracle we can all enjoy." —Antonia Hodgson, bestselling author of The Raven Scholar Explore a universe of stubborn survival and found family, of persistent danger and quiet wonder in the first installment of a heartfelt new duology from Hugo Award–winning author Becky Chambers.     Fae and Fare by pirateaba “pirateaba is an amazing world builder, and as a writer, I am in awe of their story constructing skills… You won't find anything else like it.” —Matt Dinniman, New York Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl Return to the Innverse in Fae & Fare, Volume 1, the second novel in the massive epic fantasy world that has become a LitRPG sensation, where cities are rebuilt, more chess is played, friendships are formed, intrigues grow, and the Wandering Inn… moves.    Available from Amazon and other booksellers.

Coming soon from Penguin Random

 

The Third Eye

by George Harrison

An intimate, beautiful collection of more than two hundred never-before-collected photos of the Beatles at work and at play — many published for the first time — taken by their lead guitarist, George Harrison. The candid, unguarded photos, brimming with Harrison’s wit, intelligence, and penchant for experimentation (he was enamored of selfies, long before the iPhone), and snapped in those rare moments out of the spotlight offer a remarkable, inside look at the human being behind the Beatles, trying to hold onto themselves — and enjoy themselves — while standing at the center of the storm.

 

Hardcover $65

 

 

Chain Reaction

by Lee Child and Andrew Child

Jack Reacher is hard to find. It’s not easy to track him down. And he likes it that way. But General Susan Turner, based deep inside the Pentagon, has the means and the motive. She needs his help. A member of her team has been brutally murdered on covert duty. She can’t trust anyone she works with, not even her deputy. She needs someone from the outside. Someone who solves problems and disappears without a trace … The heart-pounding new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

 

Hardcover $34 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something Is Killing the Children: Hope Is a Knife

by James Tynion IV and Kiersten White

Welcome to the dark. It has very sharp teeth. Based on the internationally bestselling comic series, with millions of copies in print, the first full-length novel from the terrifying world of Something Is Killing the Children — a stunning collaboration between Eisner-winning co-creator James Tynion IV and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White.

 

Hardcover $30 

 

A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

 

 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).

“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal


On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.

Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.”

At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.

Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.  

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“An absolute winner! It’s rare that a thriller offers up a tale with such a page-turning, edge-of-the-seat plot that also grips your heart so tightly, but First Chance does just that, and then some! There’re thrills, laughs, and even a few tears. (And who doesn’t just love a German shepherd named Sissy?) Bravo!”

Jeffery Deaver, internationally bestselling author of The Bone Collector and South of Nowhere

 

 

SEE MY REVIEW FROM MAY 26 

 

 

New from Penguin Random

 

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

By Diana Gabaldon

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Gabaldon returns with the “vast and sweeping” ( The Washington Post ) newest novel in the epic Outlander series. War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Now it’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children, and are rebuilding their home on Fraser’s Ridge—a fortress that may shelter them against the winds of war as well as weather. But tensions in the Colonies are great: Battles rage from New York to Georgia and, even in the mountains of the backcountry, feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows that loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long before the war is on his doorstep. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family. Not so far away, young William Ransom is coming to terms with the mysteries of his identity, his future, and the family he’s never known. His erstwhile father, Lord John Grey, has reconciliations to make and dangers to meet on his son’s behalf and on his own, and far to the north, Young Ian Murray fights his own battle between past and future, and the two women he’s loved. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie sharpens his sword, while Claire whets her surgeon’s blade: It is a time for steel.

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