New year, new resolutions. If a book club is one of your resolutions, we've got a few suggestions to help you pick some "hot" new books to read in 2013. Everything from Young Adult to serial killers...with a twist! Whether your book club loves to read mysteries and thriller, or perhaps you want more like FIFTY SHADES OF GREY. Or you love history. You're sure to find one book in our selection today.
Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and
everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family,
just the two of them against the world. But now her mom is
gone most of the time, chasing the next marriage, brining
home the next stepfather. Anna is left on her own—until she
discovers that she can make boys her family. From Desmond to
Joey, Todd to Sam, Anna learns that if you give boys what
they want, you can get what you need. But the price is
high—the other kids make fun of her; the girls call her a
slut. Anna's new friend, Toy, seems to have found a way
around the loneliness, but Toy has her own secrets that even
Anna can't know.
Then comes Sam. When Anna actually meets a boy who is more
than just useful, whose family eats dinner together, laughs,
and tells stories, the truth about love becomes clear. And
she finally learns how it feels to have something to
lose—and something to offer. Real, shocking, uplifting, and
stunningly lyrical, Uses for Boys is a story of breaking
down and growing up..
Archie Sheridan should be healing—mentally and physically—
from his past run-ins with serial killer Gretchen Lowell.
But while he seems to be making some progress, he's just
as haunted as the day she let him go. He tries to focus on
his work: a cyclist has come across a corpse in Mount
Tabor Park on the eastern side of Portland. The man was
gagged and hanging by his wrists from a tree, his torso
skinned. It is the brutal work of a killer bold enough to
torture his victim for hours on a sunny summer morning in
a big public park.
The investigation isn't far along before Archie gets a
call from an unlikely source. In fact, after months of
ignoring calls from a doctor at the mental hospital where
Gretchen is supposed to be locked away forever, Archie is
surprised to hear that she claims to have inside knowledge
about the new investigation, and finally agrees to see her
face-to-face. Archie is sure she is bluffing just to get
close to him, but he can't take the chance of losing his
only lead.
Loving on the Edge #3
Berkley Heat
January 2013
On Sale: December 31, 2012
336 pages ISBN: 0425259919 EAN: 9780425259917 Kindle: B0095ZOZZW Paperback / e-Book
He'll do anything for you but you'd better say please
He'll do anything for you. But you'd better say
please.
When tomboy sports reporter
Charli Beaumonde loses a dream TV job because she's not
girly enough for primetime, she's determined to land a big
scoop and prove her boss made a mistake. But when she gets
too close to a football scandal and finds her life
threatened, Charli accepts an offer from family friend Grant
Waters to hide out at his place--even if Grant predicts
nothing but trouble from his buddy's hard-headed,
uncompromising, irrepressible, younger sister. There's one
more problem...
Grant's "place" is The Ranch, a BDSM
resort in Texas, and he's used to being in charge--even if
that means trying to keep Charli in line. But much to
Grant's surprise, she's intrigued--even envious--of his
trainees. They're the epitome of what she's never been:
sexy, beguiling, and totally irresistible to a man. Still,
Grant doesn't believe for a minute that the sharp-tongued
Charli has it in her to be anyone's submissive. But Charli's
already on her knees vying for the chance to prove that even
the Master can be wrong sometimes.
In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes
Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's Tale
It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against
the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the
city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson
becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of
Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of
murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive.
Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to
find the real killer.
Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who's
far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman
ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge
rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha's
past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing
to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and
Martha from the homes of the city's most powerful families
to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve
into the life of Esther's murdered husband, they discover
that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister
secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go
hand in hand.
From "one of the best new writers on the scene today"
(The Huffington Post) comes the sequel to
Falling Home, a novel set in the picaresque town of
Walton, Georgia, where one woman is about to discover that
the best journey is the one that brings you home....
Freelance photographer Suzanne Paris has been on her
own since she was fourteen—and she has no intention of
settling down, especially not in a tiny town like Walton,
Georgia. She's here to hide out for a little while, not to
form connections. Her survival depends on her ability to
slip in and out of people's lives, on never staying in one
place for too long.
But no one in Walton plans on
making things easy for Suzanne. For one thing, it's a town
where everyone knows everyone else—and they all seem intent
on making Suzanne feel right at home. For another, Suzanne
can't help but feel drawn to this tight-knit community—or to
the town's mayor, Joe Warner, and his six kids. But Suzanne
can't afford to stick around, even if she's finally found a
place where she belongs. Because someone is looking for
her—someone who won't stop until her life is destroyed...