New Releases
It’s going to be a slooow week for books. There nothing people will be lines up for this week. Last week, though, the latest Sookie Stackhouse book, Dead and Gone, hit stands. So, unless you woofed it down in its first week of release like I did, there’s that.
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing. (ISBN-13: 978-0446580298) Hardcover. Length: 448pp
William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor-a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta undertake their own private-and decidedly unorthodox-quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived. Release: May 12
The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker
Tor Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765318909) Hardcover. Length: 304pp
When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet–only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn’t turn a profit on Mars. Release: May 12
A Grey Moon Over China by Thomas A. Day
Tor Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765321428) Hardcover. Length: 416pp
Army engineer Eduardo Torres is caught up in the world’s raging oil wars when he stumbles onto the plans for a quantum-energy battery. This remarkable device could slow civilization’s inevitable descent into environmental disaster, but Torres has other plans. Forming a private army, he uses the device to revive an abandoned space colonization effort in an ambitious campaign to lead humanity to a new life in a distant solar system. Release: May 12
The Soldiers of Halla by D. J. MacHale
Aladdin. (ISBN-13: 978-1416914204) Hardcover. Length: 608pp
It has all been leading to this. Every victory. Every loss. All the thrills and sadness; the hope and despair. Bobby Pendragon’s heart-pounding journey through time and space has brought him to this epic moment. He and his fellow Travelers must join forces for one last desperate battle against Saint Dane. At stake is not only the tenth and final territory, but all that ever was or will be. Everywhere. This is the war for Halla. Every question is answered. Every truth is revealed. The final battle has begun. Release: May 12
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
Razorbill. (ISBN-13: 978-1595142511) Paperback. Length: 304pp
Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called “the touch.” (Comes in handy when you’re traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional zombie.) Then her dad turns up dead—but still walking—and Dru knows she’s next. Even worse, she’s got two guys hungry for her affections, and they’re not about to let the fiercely independent Dru go it alone. Will Dru discover just how special she really is before coming face-to-fang with whatever—or whoever— is hunting her? Release: May 14
Audio Books
- Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
- Star Trek Audio Book by Alan Dean Foster
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