Waking the Witch – out now!
Source: orbitbooks.net
Calling all Kelley fans! It’s official: Waking the Witch (UK | ANZ) has arrived in a bookshop near you and it’s looking fantabulously gorgeous. It’s the brand new title in the Women of the Otherworld series from international bestseller Kelley Armstrong, and it’s the first hardback to be whipped out with Kelley’s striking new cover style.
During the author’s recent tour to the UK we managed to steal her away from her hectic schedule, corner her in a tiny, tiny room with a camera and throw some questions her way.
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Book Club: Mysteries abound in Mary Downing Hahn’s ‘Closed for the Season’
Source: washingtonpost.com
“Closed for the Season,”
by Mary Downing Hahn
Published by Clarion Books
182 pages
Recommended for age 9 and older
The KidsPost Summer Book Club closes for the season, appropriately, with this spooky mystery by Maryland author Mary Downing Hahn.
“Closed for the Season” is as creepy as any of Hahn’s earlier spine-chilling ghost stories, but this one has a man-made, not supernatural, explanation. The story opens as 12-year-old Logan is moving to a new house in a new town. He almost immediately meets Arthur Jenkins, who is “almost 12” and lives next door. Making a new friend on your first day in a new place may seem like a good thing — except that Arthur is the nerdiest, most-picked-on, least-liked kid at Oak View Middle School. In short, not the kind of kid Logan necessarily wants to be associated with.
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It’s Blaine As Day: Is Kat Richardson’s Greywalker Saga Paranormal Fantasy’s Best Series?
Source: bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com
Okay, this could get contentious fast, but with the recent release of Kat Richardson’s fifth Greywalker novel, Labyrinth, I have a hard time ranking any of the current elite paranormal fantasy series ahead of Richardson’s saga featuring Seattle based private investigator Harper Blaine who, after being clinically dead for almost two minutes, can now see into the Grey, the realm of ghosts and other supernatural beings.
Yes, I know… I absolutely L-O-V-E Kim Harrison and her Rachel Morgan novels not to mention the Mercy Thompson saga by Patricia Briggs, Stacia Kane’s Downside, Adrian Phoenix’s The Maker’s Song, and the Kayla Steele novels by Natasha Rhodes, to name a few, but as of this moment in time, the summer of 2010, I think the Greywalker saga is the very best paranormal fantasy out there – and here are a few reasons why.
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Apparat Chic: Talking with Gary Shteyngart
Source: omnivoracious.com
For a guy who has spent the past few years writing a corrosively funny and deeply horrified vision of our networked lives, in his new novel Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart has certainly taken to the new media with aplomb. Starting with his cameo-crammed author video, the most chattered about of the year so far, and continuing with regular Facebook updates, it won’t be long until he can leave the smelly world of books behind and become a 24/7 show on the web, like the rest of the world.
Whatever he’s doing, it’s working: SSTLS has been solidly lodged in our top 100 since it came out. It’s also, for what it’s worth, one of my Best of the Month picks for August. I got to talk with Shteyngart when he was in Seattle back in May: the audio versions have been live on the site for a while now, but I wanted to post them here along with a (lengthy) transcript, which provides plenty of room for his standup act (I cut out all the “[laughter]” notes from the transcript, since they happened pretty much in the middle of every sentence), but also, as you’ll find in the book, some heartfelt sentiment too, especially about the loss of empathy that might result if we lose the habit of reading.
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Way of Kings ARC and audio giveaway on Facebook
Source: tor.com
Psst! Head over to the Tor.com Facebook page and comment on our wall for another chance to win an Advance Reading Copy AND (edited to add, sorry!) an audio copy of Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings! That’s a whole lotta audiobook, guys, so many thanks to Macmillan Audio.
(And as long as you’re on our Facebook page, you can “like” us and you’ll see each new post in your update stream. Just sayin’.)
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