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Upcoming Fiction Highlights…

Tell Tale Rules of Magic Hiddensee by Jeffrey Archer by Alice Hoffman by Gregory Maguire

“Archer returns with “Thrilling and exquisite, his eagerly-awaited, real and fantastical, The “Hiddensee recreates brand-new collection, Rules of Magic is a story the backstory of The a fascinating, exciting about the power of love Nutcracker, reimaging and sometimes reminding us that the how this entrancing poignant insight into only remedy for being creature came to be people he has met, human is to be true to carved and how it stories he has come yourself.” magically guided an ailing across, and countries little girl named Klara he has visited during (This novel is a prequel through a dreamy the past ten years.” to Practical Magic.) paradise on a snowy Christmas Eve.”

More Forthcoming Fiction…

Death In St. Petersburg - Tasha Alexander Cast Iron - Peter May Shattered Memories - V. C. Andrews The Mongrel Mage - L.E. Modesitt Parting Shot - Linwood Barclay The Devil You Know - Mary Monroe The Witches' Tree - M.C. Beaton Wyoming Winter - Diana Palmer The Relive Box and Other Stories - T.C. Boyle Deep Freeze - John Sandford Origin - Dan Brown The Tiger's Prey - Wilbur A. Smith Crazy Like a Fox - Rita Mae Brown Fairytale - Danielle Steel Children of the Fleet - Orson Scott Card An Irish Country Practice - Patrick Taylor The Stolen Marriage - Diane Chamberlain Even If It Kills Her - Kate White Two Kinds of Truth - Michael Connelly Lilac Lane - Sherryl Woods The Last Mrs. Parrish - Liv Constatine Quick and Dirty - Stuart Woods Smile - Roddy Doyle Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan Fiction Author Spotlight: Fresh Complaint - Jeffrey Eugenides It Devours! - Joseph Fink This Chilean-American bestselling novelist and short story Pulse - Felix Francis writer (who also writes nonfiction) crafts moving stories which From a Certain Point of View - Various Authors can, at times, swerve into “magic realism” or the fantastical. Much of Allende’s inspiration comes from South American Here in Berlin - Cristina Garcia history and her own life. Her most popular fiction includes: The Rooster Bar - John Grisham Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks City of the Beasts Dangerous Illusions - Irene Hannon The It Girls - Karen Harper Ghost on the Case - Carolyn Hart The House of Spirits Paris in the Present Tense - Mark Helprin Ines of My Soul Winter Solstice - Elin Hilderbrand Island Beneath the Sea Strange Weather - Joe Hill Without Merit - Colleen Hoover Righteous - Joe Ide Allende’s new novel, In the Midst of Wilde In Love - Eloisa James Winter, is about “three very different people brought together in a Mind Game - Iris Johansen mesmerizing story that journeys from The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - Darynda Jones present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in Killing Season - Faye Kellerman the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil.” Crimes of the Father - Thomas Keneally ______The Diamond Empire - K'wan Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures - Louis L'Amour Looking for Odd Child Out - Gilly Macmillan NONFICTION? After the Fire - Henning Mankell Please see the back page. October 2017 Nonfiction Highlights…

The Thin Light A Good Cry Sisters First

of Freedom by Nikki Giovanni by Jenna Bush Hager

by & Barbara Pierce Bush “One of America's Edward L. Ayers most celebrated poets “Former first daughters looks inward in this “With analysis as Jenna Bush Hager and powerful collection, a Barbara Pierce Bush powerful as its rumination on her life narrative, here is share intimate stories and the people who and reflections from a landmark history have shaped her.” of the Civil War.” the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond.” Includes a foreword by Laura Bush.

Dare Not Linger Code Girls Scalia Speaks by Nelson Mandela by Liza Mundy by Antonin Scalia “The long-awaited “Code Girls reveals a “This definitive collection second volume of hidden army of Nelson Mandela's female cryptographers, of beloved Supreme Court memoirs, left whose work played a Justice Antonin Scalia's unfinished at his crucial role in ending finest speeches covers death and never World War II.” topics as varied as the law, before available, are faith, virtue, pastimes, and here completed and his heroes and friends.” expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency.”

More Forthcoming Nonfiction…

The Grouchy Historian - Ed Asner Beyond the Messy Truth - Van Jones Before You Know It - John Bargh Endurance - Scott Kelly The Great Gasbag - Joy Behar An American Family - Khizr Khan American Wolf - Nate Blakeslee Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans Fix - Russell Brand - Brian Kilmeade Be Fierce - Gretchen Carlson Real American - Julie Lythcott-Haims Going into Town - Roz Chast Admissions - Henry Marsh Grant - Ron Chernow Bobby Kennedy - Chris Matthews We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates Logical Family - Armistead Maupin The Chicago Cubs - Rich Cohen Ageless Soul - Thomas Moore I'm Fine and Other Lies - Whitney Cummings Walking with Peety - Eric O'Grey Lou Reed - Anthony DeCurtis Trump Is F*cking Crazy - Keith Olbermann From Here To Eternity - Caitlin Doughty Devotions - Mary Oliver Ali - Jonathan Eig Blessed in the Darkness - Joel Osteen Hank & Jim - Scott Eyman Overload - Bob Schieffer The First Major - John Feinstein I Can't Breathe - Matt Taibbi Capital Gaines - Chip Gaines Where the Past Begins - Amy Tan 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro Raising Trump - Ivana Trump - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. We're Going to Need More Wine - Gabrielle Union Craig & Fred - Craig Grossi Greater Gotham - Mike Wallace Sticky Fingers - Joe Hagan Hoover - Kenneth Whyte The Second World Wars - Victor Davis Hanson The Origins of Creativity - Edward O. Wilson Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson The Wisdom of Sundays - Oprah Winfrey Soar - T. D. Jakes

Nonfiction Author Spotlight: Oliver Sacks

This physician, neurologist, and NYU professor probed mysteries of the mind and introduced millions of readers worldwide to fascinating aspects of the brain while making such topics approachable and appreciable.

Popular nonfiction works by Sacks include: Awakenings, Gratitude, Hallucinations, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, The Mind’s Eye, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood.

The author’s most recent (and posthumously published) work, The River of Consciousness, is summarized as “a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.”

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