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October 13th - Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide case in South L.A. and soon identifies a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad as his prime suspect. Before he can close in, he gets word that his young daughter who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing. Bosch drops everything to cross the Pacific and find his daughter. Is her disappearance connected to his case? The stakes are high and Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is what it seems.

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October 20 - Malcolm Gladwell, the genius behind The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, is one of the most gifted and influential journalists in America. Now, the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in this anthology, What The Dog Saw. Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many varieties of mustard, but only one kind of ketchup; a surprising assessment of what makes for a safer automobile; a look at how we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job; an examination of machine built to predict hit movies; a dissection of Ivy League admissions and who gets in; the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie; and a look at hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America.

For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation - a mix tape from America’s alpha mind.

October 6 - Go on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure as the Great War brews in Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan

October 27 - Get your hands on David Baldacci’s newest, True Blue

Philippa Gregory, author of  The Other Boleyn Girl, has a new book coming out on August 18th and next week she’ll make her twitter debut .

Starting August 11th, Gregory will be writing a series of tweets in the voice of Elizabeth Woodville, the Plantagenet queen who is the central character of the new book, The White Queen.  Her publisher, Simon & Schuster, say it is the first time a bestselling author has condensed their novel on twitter.

The 150,000 word story was a bit of a challenge to condense into nearly 250 tweets of 140 characters or less, but Gregory seems quite pleased with her results. “Tweets are a discipline, rather like a haiku, and the shortness of the sentence gives each one a rhythm which is really interesting for prose,” she said. “It was more like writing poetry than prose. And some of the tweets seem to me to be more arresting than the prose of the book.”

You can catch Gregory’s tweets as The White Queen’s Elizabeth Woodville from August 11th to 17th by following her at @ElizWoodville on twitter.

The White Queen will be available for rent, download, and purchase from Simply Audiobooks on August 18th.

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August is looking to be a good month for Mystery, Thriller fans! Two of the best-selling authors of all time (and long-time member favorites) have new books coming out that are sure to heat up the last days of summer.

Sandra Brown is back this summer with Smash Cut. ‘Smash cut’ is a movie term referring to a sudden shift in scene, made specifically to shock the viewer. Brown explains this in a video on her offical website. “You see, my villan in this book is a film scholar. He eats, drinks, and sleeps movies. His conversations are sprinkled with quotes of movie dialogue - some you’ll recognize, and some you may not.  The research for this book was fun. Watching movies, trying to find the perfect line of dialogue to tie into the scenes that I was writing. Sometimes it got a little creepy, as does my villan. As the story progresses, he takes his fetish a bit further than quoting dialogue and actually begins re-enacting ….. well, I guess you’ll just have to read it, won’t you?”

The Smash Cut audiobook doesn’t come out until August 11th, but you can beat the rush and add it to your rental shelf now!

Next up, on August 24th,  James Patterson, world record holder and veritable story machine, is set to release the 15th book in his Alex Cross detective series, Alex Cross’s Trial.

Trial is written in the voice of Detective Alex Cross, as he passes down the family tale of his great uncle Abraham and his struggle for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan.

Washington D.C. lawyer Ben Corbett fights against oppression and racism and risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.

When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and enlists him to introduce Ben to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town’s black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror–but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart.

Add Alex Cross’s Trial to your rental shelf now!

Today, the machine better known as James Patterson, releases the 4th of 9 books set to come out this year. Swimsuit,the story of a beautiful supermodel who disappears on a photo shoot in Hawaii, promises to be a heart-pounding story of fear and desire, a veritable “hell of unspeakable horrors”.

A must listen for all Patterson fans.

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For the hardcore vampire lovers out there who thought your favorite fiends were dying a slow sucky death at the hands of romance, at last, we might have a saviour.

Guillermo del Toro, famed director of Pan’s Labyrinth, Blade II and the Hellboy series, alongside author Chuck Hogan, has just released The Strain, the first in what is set to be a trilogy of vampire novels.

Guillermo and Hogan present vampirism as a virus, about to destroy the world. “They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.  In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months—the world”

Watch this clip for an idea of what kind of vampire you can expect from del Toro.

Finally vampires are monsters again. Unleash the bloodsucking plague.

(*note - language in video clip may not be suitable for work)