upcoming books | Scribbles & Wanderlust | Page 3

Tag: upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [13]
  
  Posted at 7:19 pm by Laura, on April 15, 2012
  
  Title: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
  Author: Jenny Lawson / The Bloggess
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: Amy Einhorn Putnam
  Publishing Date: April 17
  Summary: For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris-Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.
  When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father (a professional taxidermist who created dead-animal hand puppets) and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
  Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter are the perfect comedic foils to her absurdities, and help her to uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments-the ones we want to pretend never happened-are the very same moments that make us the people we are today.
  
  ~
  
  Title: White Horse
  Author: Alex Adams
  Genre: fiction, post-apocalyptic
  Publisher: Atria / Emily Bestler Books
  Publishing Date: April17
  Summary: Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are not defined by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Innocent
  Author: David Baldacci
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  Publishing Date: April 17
  Summary: It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn’t seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.
  Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn’t an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can’t walk away. He needs to help her.
  Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he’s convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents’ deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.
  Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl’s life . . . and perhaps his own.
  
  ~
  
  Remember to vote for me in the Independent Book Blogger Awards!
  
  Anyone getting ready to pick up their World Book Night books? I’m looking forward to the event!
  
  Happy reading!
  
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, genre: fiction, genre: mystery, genre: nonfiction, goodreads, upcoming books, world book night
- Upcoming Books! [12]
  
  Posted at 4:24 pm by Laura, on April 8, 2012
  Title: Angels of Vengeance
  Author: John Birmingham
  Genre: sci fi
  Publisher: Random House
  Publishing Date: April 10
  Summary: When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles—for survival, justice, and revenge.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
  Author: Jonathan Gottschall
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  Publishing Date: April 10
  Summary: Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why?
  In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems—just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival.
  Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal. Did you know that the more absorbed you are in a story, the more it changes your behavior? That all children act out the same kinds of stories, whether they grow up in a slum or a suburb? That people who read more fiction are more empathetic?
  
  ~
  
  Title: Paris in Love: A Memoir
  Author: Eloisa James
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: Random House
  Publishing Date: April 3
  Summary: With no classes to teach, no committee meetings to attend, no lawn to mow or cars to park, Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life—discovering corner museums that tourists overlook, chronicling Frenchwomen’s sartorial triumphs, walking from one end of Paris to another. She copes with her Italian husband’s notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven and fifteen, as they navigate schools—not to mention puberty—in a foreign language; and her mother-in-law Marina’s raised eyebrow in the kitchen (even as Marina overfeeds Milo, the family dog).
  
  ~
  
  Are you a mystery fan? Simon & Schuster’s Atria Mystery Tour information is up – follow the authors and books on their tour across the country!
  
  ~
  
  ABA announced their Indie Choice winners!
  - fiction: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  - nonfiction: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
  - debut: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
  - YA:Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
  Happy reading!
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: fiction, genre: nonfiction, genre: sci-fi, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [11]
  
  Posted at 8:18 pm by Laura, on April 2, 2012
  
  Apologies for the lateness. Many papers sneaked up on me this weekend! (PS I definitely thought “snuck” was a word. This is terrible.)
  
  ~
  
  Title: Triggers
  Author: Robert J. Sawyer
  Genre: sci-fi, thriller
  Publisher: Penguin
  Publishing Date: April 3
  Summary: On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories.
  Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison’s mind are not “his” memories. It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh’s equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another’s minds.
  And now one of those people has access to the president’s memories- including classified information regarding the upcoming military mission, which, if revealed, could cost countless lives. But the task of determining who has switched memories with whom is a daunting one- particularly when some of the people involved have reason to lie…
  
  ~
  
  Title: Dorchester Terrace
  Author: Anne Perry
  Genre: historical mystery
  Publisher: Random House
  Publishing Date: April 3
  Summary: Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain’s Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line—on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin.
  Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal, or are the rumors designed to distract Pitt from an even more devastating plot? He must resolve this riddle at once, before the damage is done.
  Meanwhile, in a London sickroom, an old Italian woman—at the end of a romantic career as a revolutionary spy—is terrified that as she sinks into dementia, she may divulge secrets that can kill. And a beautiful young Croatian woman, married to a British power broker, hoards her own mysteries. Apparently all roads lead to the Continent, and Pitt suspects that between them these two fascinating women could tell him things he desperately needs to know. But as the hours tick by, it seems that the only woman Pitt can count on is his clever wife, Charlotte.
  
  ~
  
  Title: Death Comes Silently
  Author: Carolyn Hart
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: Berkeley Hardcover
  Publishing Date: April 3
  Summary: Winter has arrived in Broward’s Rock, South Carolina, and business has slowed for Annie Darling, owner of mystery bookstore Death on Demand. So when the island’s resident writer publishes the latest in her popular mystery series, Annie jumps at the chance to host a book signing, even though it conflicts with her shift at the local charity shop, Better Tomorrow.
  Luckily, fellow volunteer Gretchen Burkholt agrees to sub for her. The signing goes well, but Gretchen interrupts the event multiple times, leaving voice mails about scandalous news she’s dying to share. Even though Gretchen tends to be excitable, Annie heads over to Better Tomorrow, where she finds Gretchen dead on the floor, an axe by her side.
  Annie enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless teenager. And she must tread carefully in her investigation, because a killer is on the loose, and that killer works well in the foggy days of winter.
  
  ~
  
  Title: Grave Mercy
  Author: Robin LaFevers
  Genre: young adult, fantasy
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  Publishing Date: April 3
  Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
  Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?
  
  ~
  
  Happy reading!
  
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: mystery, genre: young adult, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [10]
  
  Posted at 7:40 pm by Laura, on March 25, 2012
  
  Title: The Truth of All Things
  Author: Kieran Shields
  Genre: mystery, historical
  Publisher: Crown
  Publishing Date: March 27
  Summary: Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, in the summer of 1892, a grisly new witch hunt is beginning….
  When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute’s murder in Portland, Maine, he’s surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He’s even more surprised to learn that this death by “sticking” is a traditional method of killing a witch.
  Baffled by the ritualized murder scene, Lean secretly enlists the help of historian Helen Prescott and brilliant criminalist Perceval Grey. Distrusted by officials because of his mixed Abenaki Indian ancestry, Grey is even more notorious for combining modern investigative techniques with an almost eerie perceptiveness. Although skeptical of each other’s methods, together the detectives pursue the killer’s trail through postmortems and opium dens, into the spiritualist societies and lunatic asylums of gothic New England.
  Before the killer closes in on his final victim, Lean and Grey must decipher the secret pattern to these murders–a pattern hidden within the dark history of the Salem witch trials.
  
  ~
  
  Title: Shadow’s Fall
  Author: Dianne Sylvan
  Genre: sci-fi
  Publisher: Ace
  Publishing Date: March 27
  Summary: For three years, Miranda Grey-Solomon has kept her role as Vampire Queen of the South separate from her Grammy-winning music career. But now, her dual lives are starting to collide, threatening everything Miranda and David, her Prime, have worked for.
  The entire Signet Council has descended upon Austin for its ten-year summit, bringing with it Prime James Hart of the Northeast, a sworn enemy come to take his revenge on those who defied him. But Miranda and David receive an unexpected offer of help from David’s sire, an ancient and powerful vampire with knowledge that may be their salvation-or their doom.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Saint
  Author: Monica McCarty
  Genre: historical
  Publisher: Random House
  Publishing Date: March 27
  Summary: Magnus MacKay is the ultimate Highlander: tough, proud, able to master any terrain and to best his enemies. Called “the Saint” for his refusal to discuss women, as well as for his cool and steady leadership, Magnus hides a painful truth. It isn’t virtue or piety that keeps him silent, but a wound of love and loss that cuts so deep he cannot bear to speak of it. But when the woman who refused him is betrothed to his friend and fellow Guardsman, Magnus is tested by love’s battle cry.
  A wild and innocent beauty, Helen chose family duty over her desire for Magnus. Now the anger in his eyes mirrors the tormented regret in her heart. But as deadly subterfuge stalks the King and his Guard, Helen vows to right her youthful mistakes with a woman’s determined spirit. Still, Magnus harbors secrets and an iron will not to weaken to temptation—or heartache—again. But as danger looms, it’s the kiss not of a saint, but of a sinner, that can save them.
  
  ~
  
  Happy reading!
  
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [9]
  
  Posted at 3:35 pm by Laura, on March 18, 2012
  Title: Stay Close
  Author: Harlan Coben
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: Dutton
  Publishing Date: March 20
  Summary: Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead- end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case-a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them.
  Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream- the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades- they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Good Father
  Author: Noah Hawley
  Genre: fiction
  Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  Publishing Date: March 20
  Summary: An intense, psychological novel about one doctor’s suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
  As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen’s specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.
  Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.
  
  ~
  
  Title: Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner
  Author: John Maxtone-Graham
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: WW Norton & Company
  Publishing Date: March 19
  Summary: This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely investigated components of the story, including dramatic survivors accounts of the events of the fateful night, the role of newly in-vented wireless telecommunication in the disaster, the construction and its ramifications at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and the dawn rendezvous with the rescue ship Carpathia. Richly written and vividly detailed, this is the book Titanic buffs have been waiting for.
  
  ~
  
  And now for some really big news of the week about upcoming 2012/2013 books!
  - Cassandra Clare (of The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices fantasy series) has announced a new Shadowhunter series set in 2015 LA, The Dark Artifices. This week she was answering fans’ questions on her twitter @cassieclare about the possible TMI movie, the next ID book, and the future TDA.
  - Lisa Jewell’s BEFORE I MET HER, connecting 1920s Jazz Age London and 1990s Soho
  - Rachel Urquhart’s debut novel, THE VISIONIST, the story of a 15 year-old girl who sets fire to her family farm and finds refuge in an 1840s Shaker settlement
  - A Game of Thrones graphic novel (available March 27)
  Happy reading!
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: mystery, genre: nonfiction, history, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [8]
  
  Posted at 4:03 pm by Laura, on March 11, 2012
  
  Title: The Gods of Gotham
  Author: Lyndsay Faye
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: Penguin
  Publishing Date: March 15
  Summary: 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.
  Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire devastating downtown Manhattan, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this new “police force.” And he is less than thrilled that his new beat is the notoriously down-and-out Sixth Ward-at the border of Five Points, the world’s most notorious slum.
  One night while making his rounds, Wilde literally runs into a little slip of a girl-a girl not more than ten years old-dashing through the dark in her nightshift . . . covered head to toe in blood.
  Timothy knows he should take the girl to the House of Refuge, yet he can’t bring himself to abandon her. Instead, he takes her home, where she spins wild stories, claiming that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street. Timothy isn’t sure whether to believe her or not, but, as the truth unfolds, the reluctant copper star finds himself engaged in a battle for justice that nearly costs him his brother, his romantic obsession, and his own life.
  
  ~
  
  Title: Some Assembly Required
  Author: Anne Lamott
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: Riverhead Books
  Publishing Date: March 20
  Summary: In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood.
  Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax’s life.
  In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam-about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions-struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax’s mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways.
  By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family-as this book will change everyone who reads it.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Book of Jonas
  Author: Stephen Dau
  Genre: fiction
  Publisher: Blue Rider Press
  Publishing Date: March 15
  Summary: Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate-foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question. Christopher’s mother, Rose, has dedicated her life to finding out what really happened to her son, who disappeared after the raid in which Jonas’ village was destroyed. When Jonas meets Rose, a shocking and painful secret gradually surfaces from the past, and builds to a shattering conclusion that haunts long after the final page. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about what happens when foreign disaster appears at our own doorstep. It is a rare and virtuosic novel from an exciting new writer to watch.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Girl Next Door
  Author: Brad Parks
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
  Publishing Date: March 13
  Summary: Reading his own newspaper’s obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather tributes and anecdotes. It’s the last place Ross expects to find controversy—which is exactly what happens when one of Nancy’s sisters convinces him that the accident might not have been accidental at all.
  It turns out that the kind and generous Nancy may have made a few enemies, starting with her boss at the diner where she was a part-time waitress, and even including the publisher of the Eagle-Examiner. Carter’s investigation of this seemingly simple story soon has him in big trouble with his full-time editor and sometime girlfriend, Tina Thompson, not to mention the rest of his bosses at the paper, but he can’t let it go—the story is just too good, and it keeps getting better. But will his nose for trouble finally take him too far?
  
  ~
  
  Feel free to browse various publishers’ websites and the Publisher’s Weekly website for more publications! There are several upcoming books out for the pickings this week!
  
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: mystery, genre: nonfiction, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [7]
  
  Posted at 8:26 pm by Laura, on March 4, 2012
  Title: The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook: Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Bars, and Breads from the Best Little Bakery in the South
  Author: Cheryl and Griffith Day
  Genre: nonfiction, cooking
  Publisher: Artisan
  Publishing Date: March 6
  Summary: Food Network star Paula Deen introduces the couple behind Savannah’s Back in the Day Bakery and their cookbook. Broken down by baked good, including “Cupcakes and Cakes,” “Pies,” “Cobblers, Crisps, and Tarts,” and “Cookies,” chapters feature Southern favorites such as baked eggs with grits and ham, and buttermilk chess pie, along with old-time favorites like lemon meringue pie, and strawberry-rhubarb crisp. The author’s “homespun style” permeates the collection—from font and borders to recipes—including the “Savories” chapter, featuring dishes such as roasted chicken and vegetable cobbler (touted as “A potluck favorite”) and vegetable potpie. Sidebars on topics from clever packaging for baked goods to ingredient information for items such as sorghum, as well as a resource pages, add value to this retro-style book that’s all about comfort food.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The White Pearl
  Author: Kate Furnivall
  Genre: historical fiction
  Publisher: Berkley Trade
  Publishing Date: March 6
  Summary: “Malaya, 1941.” Connie Thornton plays her role as a dutiful wife and mother without complaint. She is among the fortunate after all-the British rubber plantation owners reaping the benefits of the colonial life. But Connie feels as though she is oppressed, crippled by boredom, sweltering heat, a loveless marriage. . . Then, in December, the Japanese invade. Connie and her family flee, sailing south on their yacht toward Singapore, where the British are certain to stand firm against the Japanese. En route, in the company of friends, they learn that Singapore is already under siege. Tensions mount, tempers flare, and the yacht’s inhabitants are driven by fear. Increasingly desperate and short of food, they are taken over by a pirate craft and its Malayan crew making their perilous way from island to island. When a fighter plane crashes into the sea, they rescue its Japanese pilot. For Connie, that’s when everything changes. In the suffocating confines of the boat with her life upended, Connie discovers a new kind of freedom and a new, dangerous, exhilarating love.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Rescue of Belle and Sundance: One Town’s Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned Horses
  Author: Birgit Stutz, Lawrence Scanlan
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: Da Capo Press
  Publishing Date: March 6
  Summary: In December 2008, snowmobilers spot two abandoned horses high in the Canadian Rockies. Starving and frostbitten, the horses have trampled the ten-foot-deep snow into a narrow white prison. Those who reach them bring hay but also a gun, in case the horses are too far gone. A glint of life in the horses’ eyes earns them the hay. The harrowing yet inspiring story of their near impossible rescue–involving the volunteer efforts of an entire village, first the excavation of a trench six feet deep and over 3280 feet long, and then a nearly 20 mile descent at negative 40 degrees–is sure to be read in one breathless sitting.
  
  ~
  
  Some books to look forward to in the future include:
  - Time magazine writer Lisa Cullen’s debut novel THE PASTORS’ WIVES, following the lives of three women whose lives converge and intertwine at an Atlanta evangelical mega-church, a dramatic portrayal of the private lives of pastors’ wives, caught between the demands of faith, marriage, duty and love, inspired by her magazine reporting
  - Nicholas Mennuti’s debut EXILE, written with SAFE HOUSE screenwriter David Guggenheim (originally announced by publisher as Guggenheim’s book written with Mennuti), a fast-paced, Hitchcock-esque thriller about an American businessman living in exile in Cambodia, who gets mistaken for a mysterious government operative
  - Two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene’s WONDER DOG, based on the NYT Magazine story, about a pioneering service-dog-training school in rural Ohio, the challenged children and families whose lives are transformed by the dogs trained there, and the modern science of human/canine interactions underpinning the joyful and life-saving breakthroughs
  Happy reading!
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: nonfiction, publishing, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [6]
  
  Posted at 3:54 pm by Laura, on February 26, 2012
  Title: Unwanted
  Author: Kristina Ohlsson
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  Publishing Date: February 28 (originally 2009, recently translated)
  Summary: In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted from a crowded train. Despite hundreds of potential witnesses, no one noticed when the girl was taken, and, in what seems to be merely a coincidence, her mother has been left behind at the previous station. Inspector Frederika Bergman and her team of federal investigators are called in and assigned to what at first seems to be a classic custody dispute. But when the child is found dead in the far north of Sweden with the word “unwanted” scribbled on her forehead, the case soon turns into the investigation team’s worst nightmare—the pursuit of a brilliant and ruthless killer.
  
  ~
  
  Title: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
  Author: Peter Troy
  Genre: historical fiction
  Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  Publishing Date: February 28
  Summary: Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide. Written in gorgeous language that subtly captures the diverse backgrounds of the characters, and interspersed with letters, journals, and dreams, this unforgettable story, rendered in cinematic detail, is about having faith in life’s great meaning amidst its various tangles.
  
  ~
  
  Finally, a list of books to look forward to in the future:
  - Former Politico writer Karin Tanabe’s THE CAPITOLIST, in which a 20-something journalist leaves a cushy NYC magazine job for DC’s hottest (and most cut-throat) political rag, where she uncovers a juicy scandal involving a senator that could make or break her career
  - CEO of the Special Olympics Tim Shriver’s book about the athletes who “have taught me more about how to live this life than anyone,” presenting “really important lessons for a time and an age when people are really looking and seeking ways to find more fulfillment, more purpose, more peace … in their lives”
  - KILLING LINCOLN authors Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s KILLING KENNEDY: The End of Camelot, the second book in O’Reilly’s presidential history series, promising “a dramatic work of history and a dynamic way to relive the presidency of John F. Kennedy’s White House, the horrific assassination and the crucial hours that followed”
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: history, genre: mystery, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [5]
  
  Posted at 3:00 pm by Laura, on February 19, 2012
  
  I’m going to play around with a new format this week.
  
  Title: Pandemonium
  Author: Lauren Oliver
  Genre: young adult – fantasy – dystopia
  Publisher: HarperCollins
  Publishing Date: February 28
  Summary: The old Lena is dead. The old Lena remains with Alex in Portland, Maine, behind a wall of smoke and flame, but the new Lena was born in the Wilds, transformed by hardship, deprivation, and loss.
  Now an active member of the resistance, Lena fights for a world in which love will no longer be considered a dangerous disease. Her inner life is as turbulent as the world around her. . . . Although consumed with grief for Alex, might she be falling in love with someone else?
  The second in Oliver’s “Delirium” trilogy.
  
  ~
  
  Title: And Then It’s Spring
  Author: Julie Fogliano
  Genre: children’s
  Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  Publishing Date: February 14
  Summary: Following a snow-filled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they’ve had enough of all that brown and resolve to plant a garden. They dig, they plant, they play, they wait . . . and wait . . . until at last, the brown becomes a more hopeful shade of brown, a sign that spring may finally be on its way. Julie Fogliano’s tender story of anticipation is brought to life by the distinctive illustrations Erin E. Stead, recipient of the 2011 Caldecott Medal.
  
  ~
  
  Title: The Dressmaker
  Author: Kate Alcott
  Genre: historical fiction
  Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  Publishing Date: February 21
  Summary: Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic’s doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.
  Amidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, witness to Lady Duff Gordon’s questionable actions during the tragedy. Others—including the gallant Midwestern tycoon—are not so lucky.
  On dry land, rumors about the survivors begin to circulate, and Lady Duff Gordon quickly becomes the subject of media scorn and later, the hearings on the Titanic.
  
  ~
  
  Title: Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
  Author: Craig Taylor
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: HarperCollins
  Publishing Date: February 21
  Summary: Five years in the making, and published on the eve of the 2012 Olympics, “Londoners” is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world’s most fascinating cities–a vibrant, narrative portrait of contemporary London, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum.
  
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: dystopian, genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: nonfiction, genre: young adult, upcoming books
- Upcoming Books! [4]
  
  Posted at 8:28 am by Laura, on February 13, 2012
  Apologies for the late post, normally I do this on Sundays. Been a rough few weeks with class.
  
  Here’s the latest news on upcoming and newly published books!
  
  Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult which will be released February 28th!
  
  Summary: Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
  With her father’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?
  Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it’s meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart?
  
  ~
  
  At Left Brain, Turn Right by Anthony Meindl
  
  Summary: 15 Weeks and 25 Ways to Unleash Your Inner Brando, Einstein, and Shakespeare:
  The most successful and creative people in the world don’t possess anything different than you. They have no magic formula or special secret. They’ve simply prevented the left hemisphere of their brain – the “logical,” analytical side – from sabotaging their life. Whether you’re a ballerina or banker, accountant or actor, At Left Brain Turn Right shows you how to silence the noise of your left brain, ignite your creative side, and live the life you’ve always imagined. Using relatable no-nonsense stories from his own creative journey, Anthony Meindl guides you from the left brain to the right to realize your own full creative potential.
  
  ~
  
  The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice, out on Valentine’s Day!
  
  Summary: A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.
  
  ~
  
  And finally, a few books to look forward to later in 2012 and 2013:
  - Lisa O’Donnell’s The Death of Bees, two young sisters trying to keep the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents
  - French Lessons author Ellen Sussman’s The Paradise Guest House, set in Bali during the aftermath of the 2002 nightclub bombings, a story about love, risk, and facing up to our deepest fears
  - A four book series by Lemony Snicket, due out October 23rd.
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, genre: nonfiction, genre: young adult, upcoming books
← Older posts

Newer posts →
- Hello, I’m Laura!
  
  I'm a bookish bookworm and book hoarder. By day I'm a literary agent, and by night I'm forever rearranging my bookshelves. I could talk your ear off about Gothic literature, and in my past life people thought I'd become a professional musician. I have a fluffy black cat named Rossetti, I love to travel, tea is my drink of choice, British TV is the best, and I'm always down for chips-and-queso nights. Welcome to Scribbles & Wanderlust! Grab your favorite hot beverage and let's chat books!
- Search the Blog
  
  Search for:
- Currently Reading
- Book Review Rating Key
  
  ★★★ — It’s good
  ★★★★ — It’s great
  ★★★★★ — OMG LOVE!!!
- Recent Posts