It’s Tuesday! That means it is time to make a little bit of room on the
bookshelves, load up your ereader, or make your way to your local
library. In other words – It is time to get your hands on a new book!
Here are just a few books that have just been released that you may want to grab soon:
suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer
goes far too far—a book about the power of storytelling, starring the
same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr.
Mercedes.
“Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting
story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic
author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t
published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because
Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist
Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills
Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a
trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.
Morris
hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for
another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the
treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly
Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and
vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years.
Not
since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose
obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular,
heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how
literature shapes a life—for good, for bad, forever.
to God. She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her
family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and
prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy.
But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from,
and increasingly finds that neither the church nor her homeschool
education has the answers she craves. Rachel has always found solace in
her beliefs, but now she can’t shake the feeling that her devotion might
destroy her soul.
that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a
touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of
Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley
Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
The lives of the Barretts, a
normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when
fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute
schizophrenia.
To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to
stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves
into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic
priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the
vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also
contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’
plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year
and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon
find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality
television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in
tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the
stuff of urban legend.
Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer
interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long
ago events that took place when she was just eight years old,
long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was
broadcast on television begin to surface–and a mind-bending tale of
psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory
and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
girl with a secret become unlikely accomplices for midnight pranking,
and are soon in over their heads—with the law and with each other—in
this sparkling standalone from NYT-bestselling author Anna Banks.
It’s
been years since Carly Vega’s parents were deported. She lives with her
brother, studies hard, and works at a convenience store to contribute
to getting her parents back from Mexico.
Arden Moss used to be
the star quarterback at school. He dated popular blondes and had fun
with his older sister, Amber. But now Amber’s dead, and Arden blames his
father, the town sheriff who wouldn’t acknowledge Amber’s mental
illness. Arden refuses to fulfill whatever his conservative father
expects.
All Carly wants is to stay under the radar and do what
her family expects. All Arden wants is to NOT do what his family
expects. When their paths cross, they each realize they’ve been living
according to others. Carly and Arden’s journey toward their true
hearts—and one another—is funny, romantic, and sometimes harsh.
creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of
families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by
unexpected events.
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown
of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year
of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in
love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky,
leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that
Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and
exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid
portrait of a particular time and place—Nat King Cole singing
“Unforgettable,” Elizabeth Taylor haircuts, young (and not-so-young)
love, explosive friendships, A-bomb hysteria, rumors of Communist
threat. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy.
Through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.
In
the Unlikely Event is vintage Judy Blume, with all the hallmarks of
Judy Blume’s unparalleled storytelling, and full of memorable characters
who cope with loss, remember the good times and, finally, wonder at the
joy that keeps them going.