FICTION CORE COLLECTION A Selection Guide 2013 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SIXTEENTH EDITION EDITED BY EVE-MARIE MILLER, LIZA OLDHAM AND CHRISTI SHOWMAN FARRAR H. W. WILSON A Division of EBSCO Publishing, Inc. IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS Copyright © 2013 by H. W. Wilson, A Division of EBSCO Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. For permissions requests, contact [email protected]. Library of Congress Control Number 2009027909 ISBN: 978-0-8242-1103-5 Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface v Directions for Use vi Part 1. List of Fictional Works 1 Part 2. Title and Subject Index 89 PREFACE Fiction Core Collection is a selective list of fiction titles recommended for adult readers. This 2013 Supplement is intended for use with the Sixteenth Edition of the Collection and contains entries for approximately 600 titles. The items in the Collection are considered appropriate for libraries serving adult readers and have been selected with guidance from reviews and the advice of an advisory committee of librarians with special expertise in fiction. This supplement includes both the most popular fiction published in the past year and important new literary and genre titles. Also included are previously published titles filling gaps in genres such as science fiction, romance, and mystery. Although out-of-print titles are eligible for inclusion in Fiction Core Collection, in the belief that good fiction is not obsolete simply because it goes out of print, all titles included in this Supplement were available for purchase at the time of publication. In the Directions for Use, users can find information about this supplement’s arrangement and content. For a fuller introduction to the Collection, please see the prefatory pages of the Sixteenth Edition. EBSCO Publishing is indebted to the publishers who generously supplied copies of their books as well as information about editions and prices. We are also grateful to the librarians of our advisory committee, who gave so generously of their time and expertise in advising the editors in their selection process. Advisory Committee Jennifer Baker Priscille Dando Fiction Librarian Head Librarian Seattle Public Library Robert E. Lee High School Seattle, Washington Springfield, Virginia Angela Carstensen Don Wentworth Director of Library and Media Services Senior Staff Librarian Convent of the Sacred Heart Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh New York, New York Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DIRECTIONS FOR USE PART 1. LIST OF FICTIONAL WORKS Books are listed alphabetically under main entry, usually the author. Each entry also includes information about publisher, date of publication, paging, price, ISBN, and Library of Congress control number; a descriptive abstract; and excerpts from reviews. Within this section, Core Collection Stars are indicated by a star (). Core Collection Stars are the most highly recommended titles and together form a short list that can serve as a guide to the librarian with a limited budget or one who needs a small number of books in a given area. For supplemental titles, please consult the online database. PART 2. TITLE AND SUBJECT INDEX This index to books in the Classified Collection of this supplement lists books under title, subject, and analytical entries and also includes added entries for publishers’ series, for joint authors, and for editors, and name and subject cross references, all arranged in one alphabetical listing. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS More detailed instructions on the use of this supplement can be found in the Sixteenth Edition of Fiction Core Collection. STANDARDS USED Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., 2002 revision, 2005 update. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005. McCarthy, Susan and Joseph Miller, eds. Sears List of Subject Headings. 20th ed. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 2010. FICTION CORE COLLECTION 2013 SUPPLEMENT A come involved in gay relationships, which strain their own bonds. [The author captures] the world the father and Abercrombie, Joe brothers have made for themselves in contemporary New The heroes; Joe Abercrombie. 1st ed. Orbit York City, . the jitteriness of Ivan’s manic episodes, the 2011 xi, 541p. ill. tensions of urban gay life, and the coping with family ac- ISBN 9780316044981; 0316193569; 9780316193566 ceptance and AIDS.” (Libr J) This fantasy novel tells the story of a “three-day battle . set in the same world as [author Joe] Abercrombie’s First Alexander, Hannah Law Trilogy. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy co- Last resort; Hannah Alexander. Steeple Hill ordinates the fight with the aid of a motley group of incom- Books 2005 311p. Hideaway series (pbk.) $6.99; petent, self-important officers. Col. Bremer dan Gorst is (pbk.) o.p. officially a royal observer who nurses a burning desire to kill ISBN 9780373785971; 0373785402 or be killed. Leading a much smaller army against the Union LC 2005282645 is Black Dow, whose grip on the throne of the Northmen is In this romance novel by Hannah Alexander, a Christy tenuous and based on fear and brutality. Calder, a slippery Award-Winning author, “Clarissa Cooper, twelve, vanishes and cunning egotist, advocates peace while plotting to take near her home -- abducted, evidence suggests, by someone Black Dow’s place.” (Publishers Weekly) close to her. Noelle Cooper races back to her hometown to help in the search. In the effort to save her young cousin, Albert, Susan Wittig she steps into a web a secrets that has haunted her family for The Darling Dahlias and the cucumber tree; Su- generations. Nathan Trask will do anything to protect san Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime 2010 xii, Noelle from danger. Noelle’s childhood friend, he might be 290p Darling Dahlias mysteries (hc) $24.95 much more . if she dares turn to him.” (Publisher’s note) ISBN 9780425234457 LC 2010010033 Alexander, Tamera, 1961- This book “begins in May 1930 in the small town of Dar- Rekindled; Tamera Alexander. Bethany House ling, Alabama. The Dahlias comprise the 12 members of 2006 334p Fountain Creek chronicles $14.99 a gardening club dedicated to beautifying their town while ISBN 0764201085 (pbk.); 9780764201080 struggling to survive the Depression.” (Booklist) They “are LC 2005028052 still excited about their clubhouse, an old estate . whose In this book, “[t]en years ago Kathryn Jennings made a garden includes a possibly haunted cucumber tree, which vow. For better or worse. And that promise still holds true, might shelter a buried treasure. Also distracting the mem- even though her marriage has not turned out as she expected. bers -- especially widow and probate clerk Verna Tidwell; When her husband fails to return home one stormy winter legal secretary and freelance journalist Elizabeth ‘Lizzy’ night, she struggles to keep their ranch, but her efforts are Lacy, and Mayor Jed Taylor’s wife, Ophelia Snow -- are a blocked at every turn. After a . glimpse into her husband’s prison break and the disappearance of drugstore clerk Eva past, Kathryn uncovers a hidden truth. What she wouldn’t Louise ‘Bunny’ Scott, the town tart. After Bunny turns give to turn back time and be able to love her husband for up dead in a wrecked stolen van, the ladies investigate.” the man that he was, not for the man she always wanted him (Publishers Weekly) to be.” (tameraalexander.com) Alenyikov, Michael Alexander, Victoria Ivan and Misha; stories. Michael Alenyikov. Secrets of a proper lady; Victoria Alexander. TriQuarterly Books 2010 199p. Avon Books 2007 375p. Last man standing $7.99 ISBN 0810127180; 9780810127180 ISBN 0060882646; 9780060882648 LC 2010024016 LC 2009510987 This collection of short stories, the 2011 winner of the In this book, “Lady Cordelia Bannister simply cannot Northern California Book Award for Fiction, “revolves marry a man she has not chosen herself, no matter what her around a pair of fraternal twins, Ivan and Misha, brought to father decrees. So, pretending to be her own companion, America as children, along with their father, Louie. Ivan in- she decides to seek out information about her intended by herited his father’s dark good looks and his mother’s bipolar meeting with his secretary—a man who soon beguiles her. disease . Misha has his mother’s blond coloring and the But Lady Cordelia doesn’t know the truth—the man [she] burden of responsibility for his brother. Both brothers be- can’t resist is really her intended, Daniel Sinclair. Daniel has nearly won the wager he made with three of London’s 1 FICTION CORE COLLECTION 2013 SUPPLEMENT most eligible bachelors. While two of his compatriots have Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- surrendered to the shackles of marriage, he’s remained free The sins of the father; Jeffrey Archer. St. Mar- to woo any woman he chooses. Yet duty forces him to con- tin’s Press 2012 339p. The Clifton chronicles $27.99 sider Lady Cordelia, so, determined to find a way to escape ISBN 1250000971; 9781250000972; 9781429949033 honor intact, he continues the masquerade he started.” (Pub- LC 2011046558 lisher’s note) Author Jeffrey Archer continues her “Clifton Chroni- cles” book series. “First, Harry is sent to trial and prison. Ampuero, Roberto Then Emma Barrington, whose relationship to Harry is The Neruda case; Roberto Ampuero; translated murky, departs England for the U.S., leaving behind a child by Carolina De Robertis. Riverhead Books 2012 Harry doesn’t know has been born. Harry gets out of 340p. prison . by volunteering for a military special operations ISBN 159448743X; 9781594487439 group. Emma learns Sefton Jelks, Wall Street attorney, LC 2012001890 was paid by a wealthy client to finagle Harry into prison. This book by Roberto Ampuero presents a “fictional in- . Finally, the cast gathers in post-war England, where a terpretation of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s final days in paternity case is settled once and for all.” (Kirkus Reviews) 1973 .