Newsletter 114
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Howells, Debbie
The Bones of You
A kind, quiet young woman has been found fatally beaten and stabbed. As Kate gets to know the woman's family, she becomes convinced that everything is not as it seems - and then anonymous notes arrive, urging Kate to unravel the mysteries.
Novel, 365 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Scotland, 1831: Hired to paint Lady Drummond's portrait, Kiera comes to suspect the woman is abused. When she finds Lady Drummond dead, the physician called to the house rules the death natural, but Kiera is convinced she was poisoned.
Novel, 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2016 - ISBN: 0425281248 / 9780425281246
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New035260
$7.99
Human, Charlie
Apocalypse Now Now
When his girlfriend Esme is kidnapped, all clues point toward strange forces at work, and sixteen-year-old Baxter must navigate the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's supernatural underworld to get her back.
Novel, 365 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2015 Trade PB
Titan - 2016 - ISBN: 1783294744 / 9781783294749
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New035174
$7.99
Hunter, Faith
Soulwood #1: Blood of the Earth
Nell Ingram, exiled by fear and choice from the cult she was raised in, defends herself with magic she draws from her deep connection to the forest. Now a PsyLED investigation forces her out of isolation. But to find the Blood Master of Nashville's kidnapped vassal, Nell and the PsyLED team will be forced to go deep into the heart of the cult Nell fears.
Novel, 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Roc - 2016 - ISBN: 0451473302 / 9780451473301
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New035169
$7.99
Hunter, Seth
Nathan Peake #5: The Flag of Freedom
1797: Napoleon's army is poised to invade Britain. To clear himself from an accusation of treason, Captain Peake must uncover the truth about Napoleon's invasion plans.
Novel, 395 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
McBooks - 2016 - ISBN: 1590137175 / 9781590137178
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034863
$19.95
Hurley, Kameron
The Geek Feminist Revolution
Essays on geek culture, feminism, and writing from one of the most unapologetically outspoken writers in the field. Includes 'We Have Always Fought', which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work.
Contents
Welcome to the Revolution (introduction)
Part I: Level Up
Persistence, and the Long Con of Being a Successful Writer
I'll Make the Pancakes: On Opting In - and Out - of the Writing Game
What Marketing and Advertising Taught Me About the Value of Failure
Taking Responsibility for Writing Problematic Stories
Unpacking the 'Real Writers Have Talent' Myth
Part II: Geek
Some Men Are More Monstrous Than Others: On True Detective's Men and Monsters
Die Hard, Hetaerae, and Problematic Pin-Ups: A Rant
Wives, Warlords, and Refugees: The People Economy of Mad Max
Tea, Bodies, and Business: Remaking the Hero Archetype
A Complexity of Desires: Expectations of Sex and Sexuality in Science Fiction
What's So Scary About Strong Female Protagonists, Anyway?
In Defense of Unlikable Women
Women and Gentlemen: On Unmasking the Sobering Reality of Hyper-Masculine Characters
Gender, Family, Nookie: The Speculative Frontier
The Increasingly Poor Economics of Penning Problematic Stories
Making People Care: Storytelling in Fiction vs. Marketing
Our Dystopia: Imagining More Hopeful Futures
Where Have All the Women Gone? Reclaiming the Future of Fiction
Part III: Let's Get Personal
Finding Hope in Tragedy: Why I Read Dark Fiction
Public Speaking While Fat
They'll Come for You . . . Whether You Speak Up or Not
The Horror Novel You'll Never Have to Live: Surviving Without Health Insurance
Becoming What You Hate
Let It Go: On Responding (or Not) to Online Criticism
When the Rebel Becomes Queen: Changing Broken Systems from the Inside
Terrorist or Revolutionary? Deciding Who Gets to Write History
Giving Up the Sky
Part IV: Revolution
What We Didn't See: Power, Protest, Story
What Living in South Africa Taught Me About Being White in America
It's About Ethics in Dating
Hijacking the Hugo Awards
Dear SFWA Writers: Let's Chat About Censorship and Bullying
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: On Empathy and the Power of Privilege
Rage Doesn't Exist in a Vacuum
Why I'm Not Afraid of the Internet
We Have Always Fought: Challenging the 'Women, Cattle, and Slaves' Narrative
Epilogue: What Are We Fighting For?
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Awards: ♦ Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction ♦ Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Related Work
When a resident of an assisted living facility is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Grace's assistant Frances is a suspect. Can Grace clear her name?
Novel, 291 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2016 - ISBN: 0425281620 / 9780425281628
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New035261
$7.99
Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina
League of Pensioners #1: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
When their retirement home starts cutting corners to save money, Martha Andersson and her friends decide to regain their independence and improve their lot by turning to white collar crime. After robbing a luxury hotel and pulling off a heist at the National Museum, with the police baffled and gangsters on their trail, can they stay one walker's length ahead in the game?
Novel, 390 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Harper - 2016 - ISBN: 0062447971 / 9780062447975
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034395
$15.99
Jackson, Lisa
West Coast #3: After She's Gone
When Allie's double is shot on the set, and Allie disappears, her sister Cassie finds herself a suspect, and ends up in a psych ward. Is she imagining the figure at her bedside, whispering about Allie? Is someone trying to help - or drive her mad?
Novel, 539 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2016 HC
Zebra - 2016 - ISBN: 142013597X / 9781420135978
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New035289
$9.99
Jackson, Shirley
Let Me Tell You
Previously uncollected and unpublished stories, essays, lectures, letters, and drawings.
Contents
Biographical Note
I Think I Know Her (foreword) == Ruth Franklin
I. Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened: Unpublished and Uncollected Short Fiction
Paranoia
Still Life with Teapot and Students
The Arabian Nights
Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons
It Isn't the Money I Mind
Company for Dinner
I Cannot Sing the Old Songs
The New Maid
French Is the Mark of a Lady
Gaudeamus Igitur
The Lie
She Says the Damnedest Things
Remembrance of Things Past
Let Me Tell You
Bulletin
Family Treasures
Showdown
The Trouble with My Husband
Six A.M. Is the Hour
Root of Evil
The Bridge Game
The Man in the Woods
II. I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else: Essays and Reviews
Autobiographical Musing
A Garland of Garlands
Hex Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar
Clowns
A Vroom for Dr. Seuss
Notes on an Unfashionable Novelist
Private Showing
Good Old House
The Play's the Thing
The Ghosts of Loiret
'Well?'
III. When This War Is Over: Early Short Stories
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Period Piece
4-F Party
The Paradise
Homecoming
Daughter, Come Home
As High as the Sky
Murder on Miss Lederer's Birthday
IV. Somehow Things Haven't Turned Out Quite the Way We Expected: Humor and Family
Here I Am, Washing Dishes Again
In Praise of Dinner Table Silence
Questions I Wish I'd Never Asked
Mother, Honestly!
How to Enjoy a Family Quarrel
The Pleasures and Perils of Dining Out with Children
Out of the Mouths of Babes
The Real Me
On Girls of Thirteen
What I Want to Know Is, What Do Other People Cook With?
V. I'd Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence: Lectures About the Craft of Writing
About the End of the World
Memory and Delusion
On Fans and Fan Mail
How I Write
Garlic in Fiction
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Collection, 416 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Random House - 2016 - ISBN: 0812987322 / 9780812987324
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New035204
$18.00
James, Betsy
Roadsouls
Duuni has spent her life as abused and guarded property. Blind, arrogant Raim is determined to again be what he once was: hunter, lover, young lord of the earth. Desperate to escape their lives, they lift up their hands to the passing Roadsoul Caravan, and are swept out of their cruel old certainties into a unknown, ever-changing world of journey and carnival.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Includes bonus novella 'Stand Down'. Years ago, sheriff Brandon Walker arrested John Lassiter for the murder of prospector Amos Warren. Now Lassiter wants Brandon to find the real killer and clear his name. When Brandon finds links to an unsolved case in Seattle, he comes to J.P. Beaumont for help.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2016 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel
Novel, 437 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
William Morrow - 2016 - ISBN: 0062297678 / 9780062297679
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034400
$9.99
Jemisin, N.K.
Broken Earth #2: The Obelisk Gate
The season of endings grows darker. Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, the fate of the Stillness will be sealed forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel ♦ Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel ♦ Finalist for the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Novel, 407 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Orbit - 2016 - ISBN: 0316229261 / 9780316229265
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034080
$16.99
Johnstone, Doug
The Jump
Struggling to come to terms with her son's suicide, Ellie lingers near the Forth Road Bridge. One day she talks down another suicidal teen, not realizing it will involve her with a troubled family with some very dark secrets.
Novel, 268 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Charley is working at a small town diner, with no memory of who she is, so when she begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Her saving grace is a new friend she feels she can confide in, and the diner's fry cook, a handsome man with a scalding touch.
Novel, 355 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2016 HC
St. Martin's - 2016 - ISBN: 1250074495 / 9781250074492
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034724
$7.99
Jones, G. Wayman (Daniels, Norman)
Black Bat #02: The Black Bat Strikes Again / Black Bat's Challenge
Plus The Mask comic story 'The Mask Returns'.
The Black Bat Strikes Again: The Cowled Crime-buster pursues a gang of satanic killers.
Black Bat's Challenge: Can he unmask the hidden leader of a vicious gang of beggars?
Omnibus, 126 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1939 / 1940)
A look at the ancient Greeks, covering each major period, and introducing the major figures of the age, as well as exploring Greek mythology and providing insights into everyday life.
Nonfiction, 383 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Atlantic UK - 2015 - ISBN: 1782395164 / 9781782395164
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034310
$16.95
Jones, Stan
Nathan Active #5: Tundra Kill
Alaskan cop Nathan Active investigates when a dog musher is killed by a snowmobile. The case sweeps him into the bizarre family affairs and political ambitions of Alaska's governor.
1895: A missing person who vanished from a locked room is just the beginning of an investigation that draws Holmes and Watson into contact with The Order of the Gash, and face to face with those who serve it in Hell: the Cenobites.
Novel, 300 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Solaris - 2016 - ISBN: 1781084556 / 9781781084557
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034953
$9.99
Kashina, Anna
Majat Code #3: Assassin Queen
Nimos has placed a mark on Kara; now his mind magic will allow him to confer her fighting skill on the Kaddim warriors, and turn her loyalties to their side.
Novel, 524 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster - he was only two when negligent strip mining and heavy rain produced a raging flood that killed his parents, and nearly killed him. Now he's fighting for his life again, on trial for murder. Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in a case involving vengeance, greed, and the fierce struggle for social justice.
Novel, 372 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2016 - ISBN: 1250044766 / 9781250044761
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New034823
$15.99
Kellerman, Jonathan
The Murderer's Daughter
Plus prequel story 'The Right Thing to Do'. Psychologist Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches, in part because as a child she witnessed her parents' murder-suicide deaths. She took refuge in her intellect and found comfort with the loving couple who adopted her, but she still has a dark side. When her two worlds converge, her harrowing past returns with a vengeance.
Novel, 519 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Emily Windsnap #6: Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls
Ages 8 and up. On a field trip to a mysterious island, Emily and Aaron spot a ghostly ship that is caught between land and sea, and between life and death. And only Emily can enter Atlantis to try to bring the passengers back before the portal is closed forever.
Novel, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Baby Ganesh Agency #2: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
While Ashwin Chopra is visiting an exhibition of the British Crown Jewels in Mumbai, the Koh-i-Noor diamond is stolen in a seemingly impossible heist. The hunt is on for the culprits, but it soon becomes clear that only one man - and his elephant - can crack the case.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2017 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original
