[bksvol-discuss] Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware returns, plus new novels by John Banville, Sarah Addison Allen & Jean Plaidy

From: "Jamie Yates, CPhT" <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Bookshare Volunteers <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:56:15 -0400
The Infinities
Written by John Banville

Reviewers all over the world are falling in love with John Banville's
storytelling in his new novel, The Infinities, a contemporary comedy in the
classical mode, complete with a pantheon of Greek gods meddling in the human
lives below.

Deception
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human
compulsions make Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels as compelling as
they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding
tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he
takes a bold leap into terrifying and uncharted new territory.

Walking to Gatlinburg
Written by Howard Frank Mosher

A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a
spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in
the time of war.

"A Civil War odyssey in the tradition of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and
Robert Olmstead's Coal Black Horse, Mosher's latest, about a Vermont
teenager's harrowing journey south to find his missing-in-action brother, is
old-fashioned in the best sense of the word...." -- Publisher's Weekly
Also available

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Written by Alan Bradley
Read by Jayne Entwistle

One of fiction's most remarkable sleuths returns: Flavia de Luce, a
dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a
genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two
deaths--separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.

ooms of Darkness
Written by Aharon Appelfeld

This new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli
writer is a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.

"Aharon Appelfeld is fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust.  The
stories he tells...are small, intimate, and quietly narrated and yet are
transfused into searing works of art by Appelfeld's profound understanding
of loss, pain, cruelty, and grief."
--Philip Roth

For a Queen's Love
Written by Jean Plaidy

History is seldom what it seems, and in the hands of Jean Plaidy, we hear
another side to the story of Philip II--the most powerful of kings who was
at once a fanatic, murderer, husband, father, and lover. Set against the
glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, For a Queen's Love is the
story of Philip II of Spain--and of the women who loved him as a husband and
father.

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Written by Sarah Addison Allen

In her latest enchanting novel, Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky
little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two
very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no
matter how out of place they feel.

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Written by Alexander McCall Smith

In this latest installment in the endlessly entertaining series, Precious
Ramotswe faces problems both personal and professional. But with Mma
Ramotswe on the case, it seems certain that everything will be resolved
satisfactorily.

"It's time for celebration. . . . McCall Smith has done it again."
--The Washington Times

The Irresistible Henry House
Written by Lisa Grunwald

It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program
at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering
skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely
circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the
work of a lifetime.

Fragile Beasts
Written by Tawni O'Dell

When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage
brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their
Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who
ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town's
matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman whose family once owned the
county coal mines, hears the boys' story and is compelled to offer them a
home. Tawni O'Dell takes us on a riveting journey between seemingly
incompatible souls, casting us under her narrative spell in which characters
and places are rendered with fragile tenderness.

Here Burns My Candle
Written by Liz Curtis Higgs

A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering
against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, Here Burns My
Candle illumines the dark side of human nature, even as hope, the brightest
of tapers, lights the way home.

Books for Young Readers

The Dead-Tossed Waves
Written by Carrie Ryan

From the author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth comes this post-apocalyptic
and dystopian novel. The Dead-Tossed Waves is filled with tales of the
unconsecrated, forbidden secrets, and romance. Fans of Fallen and Twilight
will love it.


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[bksvol-discuss] Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware returns, plus new novels by John Banville, Sarah Addison Allen & Jean Plaidy

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