Elm Creek #17 March 2011 On Sale: February 22, 2011 Featuring: Anneke Bergstrom; Constance Wright; Dorothea Granger 352 pages ISBN: 0525952039 EAN: 9780525952039 Hardcover $24.95  Add to Wish List Historical Buy at Amazon.com Looking at the women in the War Between The States The Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini The New York Times bestselling author of the Elm Creek Quilts series joins the Dutton list with a Civil War-era tale of love and sacrifice behind Union lines. With The Union Quilters, Chiaverini delivers a powerful story of a remarkable group of women coping with changing roles and the extraordinary experiences of the Civil War. In 1862 Water’s Ford, Pennsylvania, abolitionism is prevalent, even passionate, so the local men rally to answer Mr. Lincoln’s call to arms. Thus the women of Elm Creek Valley’s quilting bee are propelled into the unknown. Constance Wright, married to Abel, a skilled sharpshooter courageous enough to have ventured south to buy his wife’s freedom from a Virginia plantation, knows well her husband’s certainty that all people, enslaved and free, North and South, need colored men like him to fight for a greater purpose. Sisters-in-law Dorothea Nelson and Charlotte Granger wish safe passage for their learned…

June 2011 On Sale: May 24, 2011 Featuring: Henri; Catherine de Medici; Coligny 432 pages ISBN: 034550187X EAN: 9780345501875 Paperback $15.00  Add to Wish List Historical Buy at Amazon.com Best Historical Summer Reads The Confessions Of Catherine De Medici by C.W. Gortner The ambitious, gripping tale of one of history’s most notorious and misunderstood queens . . . The truth is, none of us are innocent. We all have sins to confess. So reveals Catherine de Medici in this brilliantly imagined novel about one of history’s most powerful and controversial women. To some she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others she was the passionate savior of the French monarchy. Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter into the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family’s throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power. The last legitimate descendant of the illustrious Medici line, Catherine suffers the expulsion of her family from her native Florence and narrowly escapes death at the hands of an enraged mob. While still a teenager, she is betrothed to Henri, son…

June 2011 On Sale: June 22, 2011 336 pages ISBN: 1595825460 EAN: 9781595825469 Paperback $19.99  Add to Wish List Graphic Novel Buy at Amazon.com Noir, horror, suspense, mixed in a graphics treat! Supernatural Noir by Gregory Frost, Nick Mamatas, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Evenson A hit man who kills with coincidence . . . A detective caught in a war between two worlds . . . A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret . . . Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful marriage of the darkness without and the darkness within. Supernatural Noir is an anthology of original tales of the dark fantastic from twenty modern masters of suspense, including Brian Evenson, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Nick Mamatas, Gregory Frost, Jeffrey Ford, and many more. * For fans of horror, noir, fantasy, crime, and the short fiction format! Previous Picks

Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson: Volume 1 March 2011 On Sale: March 8, 2011 128 pages ISBN: 1606902032 EAN: 9781606902035 Paperback $16.99  Add to Wish List Graphic Novel, Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com From best selling series… Moon Called by Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson inhabits two worlds without truly belonging to either. To the human inhabitants of the Tri-Cities she’s an oddity, a female mechanic operating her own garage. To the town’s darker residents, werewolves, vampires, and fae, she’s a walker, a last-of-her-kind magical being with the power to become a coyote. Mercy warily straddles the fine line dividing our everyday world from that darker dimension… ’till a boy, mauled by vicious werewolves and forever changed by the attack and on the run from those who committed the crime, appears at her door. Now her two worlds are about to collide! Outnumbered and out-muscled, can Mercy possibly save the boy… or even herself? Previous Picks

March 2011 On Sale: March 1, 2011 Featuring: Haden Black; Theia Anderson 336 pages ISBN: 0451232682 EAN: 9780451232687 Trade Size $9.99  Add to Wish List Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Falling Under by Gwen Hayes It only takes a moment to call… In her dreams he’s irresistible–seductive, charming, and undoubtedly dangerous. But when he appears to her while she’s awake–and captivates her just the same–she’s not sure where the dream begins or when it ends. Theia Anderson has always led a sheltered life, not allowed the same freedoms as the rest of the teenagers in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, she feels every urge she’s ever denied burning through her at the slightest glance from Haden Black. Theia knows she’s seen Haden before–not around town, but in her dreams. Theia doesn’t understand how she dreamed of Haden before they ever met, but every night has them joined in a haunting world of eerie fantasy. And as the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her forward one moment and pushes her away the next, the only thing Theia knows for sure is…

January 2009 On Sale: January 16, 2009 368 pages ISBN: 1571431748 EAN: 9781571431745 Paperback $24.95  Add to Wish List Fiction Media Tie-In, Non-Fiction History Buy at Amazon.com Everything Potter you’ve ever needed to know The Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark This unofficial guide to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is a 368 page companion work perfect for the curious reader who wants to know more about these remarkable books. Named one of 15 Great Web Sites for Kid by the Association For Library Services, a division of the American Library Association, the Lexicon is an authoritative, fun to read reference to the series. For years fans who have heard Vander Ark keynote academic conferences on the Potter series have asked him for a book based on his website that attracts more than 25 million visitors annually. Extensive new commentary, which does not appear on the Lexicon website adds to the fun of reading this fascinating book. The author has been featured around the world in more than 1,000 articles appearing in publications like the New York Times, The New Yorker, The London Times, The International Herald Tribune and the Associated Press as well as National Public Radio, the BBC and…

September 2010 On Sale: September 18, 2010 256 pages ISBN: 1440503257 EAN: 9781440503252 Hardcover $19.95  Add to Wish List Cookbooks Buy at Amazon.com Pick something particularly tasty. Maybe, say, a pumpkin pastie The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike Bangers and mash with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hogwarts dining hall. A proper cuppa tea and rock cakes in Hagrid’s hut. Cauldron cakes and pumpkin juice on the Hogwarts Express. With this cookbook, dining a la Hogwarts is as easy as Banoffi Pie! With more than 150 easy-to-make recipes, tips, and techniques, you can indulge in spellbindingly delicious meals drawn straight from the pages of your favorite Potter stories, such as: Treacle Tart—Harry’s favorite dessert Molly’s Meat Pies—Mrs. Weasley’s classic dish Kreacher’s French Onion Soup Pumpkin Pasties—a staple on the Hogwarts Express cart With a dash of magic and a drop of creativity, you’ll conjure up the entrees, desserts, snacks, and drinks you need to transform ordinary Muggle meals into magickal culinary masterpieces, sure make even Mrs. Weasley proud! Previous Picks

July 2011 On Sale: July 1, 2011 416 pages ISBN: 0446575178 EAN: 9780446575171 Hardcover $24.99  Add to Wish List Thriller Buy at Amazon.com Adrenaline by Jeff Abbott Sam Capra – brilliant CIA agent, loving husband, expectant father – loses everything that matters to him in a horrifying moment in London. An unknown enemy has set him up as a traitor. But that enemy has targeted the wrong man. Escaping from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who stole his family and to save his kidnapped wife and child. But the destruction of Sam’s life was only step one in an extraordinary plot ? and now Sam Capra must become a new kind of hero. Previous Picks

Lucy Kincaid #2 March 2011 On Sale: February 22, 2011 Featuring: Sean Rogan; Lucy Kincaid 416 pages ISBN: 0345511697 EAN: 9780345511690 Mass Market Paperback $7.99  Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Kiss Me, Kill Me by Allison Brennan A Novel of Suspense Lucy Kincaid has firsthand experience dealing with deadly criminal predators, and she’s fully prepared to share her many talents with the FBI. But when her career plans are derailed, her boyfriend, security expert Sean Rogan, asks for help on his latest private investigation. Using well-honed cyber-hunting skills, Lucy and Sean are soon on the trail of a missing teenage girl with a penchant for disappearing-and a shocking secret life. FBI Agent Suzanne Madeaux is also tracking someone: a serial killer on the loose in New York City. Dubbed by the press the Cinderella Strangler, he cruises seamy underground sex parties, where drug-fueled women make for easy pickings. As Lucy and Sean’s desperate search collides with the FBI’s hunt, Lucy isn’t about to step aside. Haunted by painful memories of her own harrowing encounters with evil, she’s determined to prevent any more innocents from meeting the fate she so narrowly escaped. Delving deep into the twisted…

May 2010 On Sale: May 4, 2010 Featuring: Will Connelly 336 pages ISBN: 0425234622 EAN: 9780425234624 Paperback $7.99  Add to Wish List Thriller Buy at Amazon.com Best First Book (ThrillerFest) Nomination The Insider by Reece Hirsch Will Connelly, a corporate attorney in a big San Francisco law firm, who is on the verge of making partner. Will thinks that becoming a partner will solve of his problems but, in fact, his troubles are only beginning. In the week after being elevated to partnership and taking over a major technology merger, Will becomes the prime suspect in a colleague’s murder and an unwilling participant in a complex criminal scheme that involves the Russian mob, insider trading and a secret government domestic surveillance program. A debut novel that puts an exciting twist on the legal thriller Excerpt Chapter 1 No matter how many times the police asked Will Connelly to recount the events of that morning, his story always began—and ended—with the same details. At six thirty a.m., he swiped his access card at the security desk in the lobby of his office building, then rode the elevator to the law firm’s offices on the thirty-eighth floor. The hallways were empty, and…