TOP 5 FICTION:
HARDCOVER:
1. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham
2. THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom
3. COMMAND AUTHORITY, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
4. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt
5. DOCTOR SLEEP, by Stephen King
SPOTLIGHT:
S.
Doug Dorst
J.J. Abrams and acclaimed novelist Doug Dorst create a reading experience like no other in this dazzling novel of love and mystery.
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.
The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.
S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.
PAPERBACK TRADE:
1. DEAR LIFE, by Alice Munro
2. DARK WITCH, by Nora Roberts
3. THE STORYTELLER, by Jodi Picoult
4. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James
5. WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, by Maria Semple
SPOTLIGHT:
ORPHAN TRAIN
Christina Baker Kline
The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.
PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET:
1. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin
2. ENDER'S GAME, by Orson Scott Card
3. NOTORIOUS NINETEEN, by Janet Evanovich
4. THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham
5. THREAT VECTOR, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
SPOTLIGHT:
BEST KEPT SECRET
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer's mesmerizing saga of the Clifton and Barrington families continues...
1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's office on the night he was killed. When the general election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma's son, who ultimately influences his uncle's fate.
In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family marches onto the page. But after Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret, the third volume in Jeffrey Archer's bestselling series, will answer all these questions but, once again, pose so many more.
E-BOOK:
1. SYCAMORE ROW, by John Grisham
2. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt
3. INNOCENCE, by Dean Koontz
4. THE GODS OF GUILT, by Michael Connelly
5. TAKEDOWN TWENTY, by Janet Evanovich
SPOTLIGHT:
INNOCENCE
Dean Koontz
"Something different this way comes from Mr. Koontz's imagination. Enjoy."—Kirkus
He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen.
She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found.
But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance—and nothing less than destiny—has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.
In Innocence, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with readers forever.
ACCLAIM FOR INNOCENCE
"Imaginative, mystical thriller. . .most satisfying Koontz standalone in a while."—Publishers Weekly
"As speedy a chase-thriller as any Koontz, a past master of the form, has ever constructed. . .the clamor for a new Koontz will be heard. . .especially when his fans hear how good this one is."—Booklist, Starred Review
"Laced with fantastical mysticism, it's an allegory of nonviolence, acceptance and love in the face of adversity. . . The narrative is intense, with an old-fashioned ominousness and artistically crafted. . .with an optimistic and unexpected conclusion. . . Something different this way comes from Mr. Koontz's imagination. Enjoy."—Kirkus
ACCLAIM FOR DEAN KOONTZ
“A rarity among bestselling writers, Koontz continues to pursue new ways of telling stories, never content with repeating himself.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. ‘Serious’ writers . . . might do well to examine his technique.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[Koontz] has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match.”—Los Angeles Times
“Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition.”—USA Today
“Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of [Koontz’s] work. . . . One of the master storytellers of this or any age.”—The Tampa Tribune
“A literary juggler.”—The Times (London)
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