Since She Went Away (David Bell)

                                                              Paperback: 432 pages

Publisher: NAL (21 June 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 045147421X

ISBN-13: 978-0451474216

Three months earlier, Jenna Barton was supposed to meet her lifelong best friend Celia. But when Jenna arrived late, she found that Celia had disappeared—and hasn’t been seen again. Jenna has blamed herself for her friend’s disappearance every single day since then.

The only piece of evidence is a lone diamond earring found where Celia and Jenna were planning to meet, leading the national media to dub Celia “The Diamond Mom.” And even though Jenna has obsessively surfed message boards devoted to missing persons cases, she is no closer to finding any answers—or easing her guilt.

But when her son’s new girlfriend—who suddenly arrived in town without a past—disappears, a stricken Jenna begins to unwind the tangled truth behind Celia’s tragedy. And as long-buried secrets finally come to light, she discovers how completely lives can be shattered by a few simple lies.

Secret of the Gargoyles (Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles Book 3)

• Print Length: 196 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Mind Your Muse Books (June 22 2016)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B01FPX3VYS

In her brief career as a gargoyle healer, Mika Stillwater has faced some daunting challenges, but none have stumped her--until now. A strange sickness infects a handful of gargoyles in Terra Haven, rendering them comatose and paralyzed. Worse, the cure she seeks is shrouded in the gargoyles' mysterious culture and the secret they guard with their lives.

Gaining the gargoyles' trust is only the first step. To save the sick gargoyles, Mika must embark on a perilous mission into the heart of deadly wild magic to a place no human has ever survived...

The captivating conclusion to the Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles trilogy, Secret of the Gargoyles will charm readers of all ages, especially those who love extraordinary magic and endearing gargoyles.

Unsouled (Cradle Book 1)

• Print Length: 261 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Hidden Gnome Publishing (June 13 2016)
• Author: Will Wight
• Language: English
• ASIN: B01H1CYBS6

Sacred artists follow a thousand Paths to power, using their souls to control the forces of the natural world. 

Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the sacred arts of his clan. 

When faced with a looming fate he cannot ignore, he must defy his family's rules...and forge his own Path.

Liberty's Last Stand

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• File Size: 1897 KB
• Print Length: 544 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing (June 13 2016)
• Author: Stephen Coonts
• Language: English
• ASIN: B01B6SEL5E

The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle.

Afterwards, America will never be the same.

Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into chaos just before a presidential election. After martial law is declared and rioting begins, Grafton and Carmellini must risk everything to unravel a massive conspiracy and help a new resistance movement rise up against an unimaginable enemy…

The Pursuit of Pearls: A Novel (Clara Vine)

• Author: Jane Thynne
• Series: Clara Vine (Book 2)
• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 3, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553393863
• ISBN-13: 978-0553393866

Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, Robert Harris, and Susan Elia MacNeal, here is the next thrilling historical novel featuring Clara Vine, the British actress and special agent who glides through the upper echelons of Nazi society, covertly gathering key intelligence—and placing herself in mortal peril.

In the spring of 1939, the drums of war beat throughout Europe, but nowhere more ferociously than in Berlin. The film studio where Clara Vine works is churning out movies, but each day that she stays in Germany is more dangerous than the last. Spying on the private life of the Third Reich, passing secrets to contacts in British intelligence, falling into a passionate affair—any of these risky moves could get Clara shot. So she is wholly shaken when someone close to her is murdered instead. The victim is Lottie Franke, an aspiring costume designer and student at the prestigious Faith and Beauty finishing school that trains young women to become the wives of the Nazi elite. While the press considers Lottie’s death in the Grunewald forest the act of a lone madman, Clara uncovers deeper threads, tangled lines that seem to reach into the darkest depths of the Reich—and to a precious discovery that Hitler and his ruthless cohorts would kill for.

Previously published in the U.K. as Faith and Beauty

Praise for Jane Thynne’s first Clara Vine novel, The Scent of Secrets

“A brilliant tale of spies and secrets, of intense psychological drama, of edgy climax and one extraordinary heroine.”—Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers

“A compelling story of love and betrayal in Hitler’s Berlin . . . Peppered with real-life characters, this series offers a fascinating glimpse of the extraordinary world of the Nazi wives.”—Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress

“An alluring blend of thrills, suspense, historic detail, and seduction.”—Susan Elia MacNeal, author of the Maggie Hope series

“An extraordinary, absorbing read with an array of characters so real you’re there with them as war looms, and a pace that sweeps you from page to page. This is indeed a winner!”—Charles Todd, author of Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

Eleanor: A Novel

• Author: Jason gurley
• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Crown; Reprint edition (January 12, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1101903511
• ISBN-13: 978-1101903513

When a terrible accident claims the life of Eleanor’s twin, her family is left in tatters, and her reality begins to unravel, dropping her in and out of unfamiliar worlds. When she returns to her own time and place, hours and days have flown by without her. One fateful day, Eleanor leaps from a cliff...and vanishes. In a strange in-between place, she meets a mysterious stranger who understands the weight of her family history: Eleanor’s twin wasn’t the only tragic loss. And unless Eleanor can master her strange new abilities, she may not be the last.

Dark Age (Felix O. Hartmann)

• Author: Felix O. Hartmann
• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Hartmann Publishing; 1 edition (June 8, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0997573120
• ISBN-13: 978-0997573121

In 2154 the world as we know it has fallen into oblivion. Mankind lives decimated and scattered in the remnants of the old world. But only few know what really happened. Growing up in a secluded city ruled by a dogmatic tyrant, Adam watches hunger starve the poor, sickness claim the young, and war kill his three older brothers. Turning seventeen, he has one year left before being forced to join the Grey Guard and follow his brothers into the unknown. Wanting to put an end to the broken system and mindless war, to seek a life of harmony with the one he loves, he decides to do whatever it takes to bring the tyrant to his knees. 

Felix Hartmann's powerful debut novel tells a tale of good and evil, truth and deceit, and paints a riveting and ruthless picture of a rebellious young man that must choose between surviving under a tyrannical regime, and risking everything in an ultimate fight for freedom.

Sherlock Holmes - The Collector's Edition

• Author: Dick Gillman
• Paperback: 518 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (December 30, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1522922733
• ISBN-13: 978-1522922735

Ever since the opening of John Watson’s tin Despatch Box of unpublished cases, followers of the great man, and his constant companion, have been eager to discover more. In this twelve story volume, more intriguing tales are presented for your enjoyment. From the theft of an Imperial Chinese artefact to mass poisonings, the blackmail of a Bishop to a Royal assassination attempt at a masked, Venetian Ball, this collection of stories by the English author, Dick Gillman, has it all. These twelve stories cover the period from 1889 to 1919 and provide the reader with a rare glimpse of the variety of cases which Holmes’ clients have brought to him at 221b Baker Street. Dick Gillman has been writing for over 10 years now and his work has achieved critical acclaim from some of the finest Sherlockian writers in the world today. One of his stories, The Man on Westminster Bridge, was given the prestigious position of being the anchor story in Volume II of the World Record breaking Sherlock Holmes anthology, released by MX Publishing in 2015. His previous paperback, The Julia Moriarty Trilogy, introduced us to the new and uniquely evil character that he had created. Julia Moriarty is the sister of the late Professor James Moriarty and is intent on revenge for her brother’s death. 

The Devils of Cardona (Matthew Carr)

• Author: Matthew Carr
• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Riverhead Books (June 14, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 110198273X
• ISBN-13: 978-1101982730

In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians.

In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town’s inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn’t always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility.

From the beginning, Mendoza finds almost universal hatred for the priest. And it isn’t long before he’s drawn into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and state policy overlap. And as the killings continue, Mendoza's investigation is overshadowed by the real prospect of an ethnic and religious civil war.

By turns an involving historical thriller and a novel with parallels to our own time, The Devils of Cardona is an unexpected and compelling read.

Ghost Flight (Ghost Flight 1)

• Author: Bear Grylls
• Print Length: 464 pages
• Publisher: Orion (June 4, 2015)
• Publication Date: June 4, 2015
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00PLV0080

THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Indiana Jones - a debut thriller to take your breath away.

A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.

A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.

A lost warplane discovered in the heart of the Amazon jungle, harbouring a secret of earth-shattering evil.

A desperate race to defeat a terrifying conspiracy emanating from the darkest days of Nazi Germany.

One thread unites them all.

Only one man can unravel it.

Will Jaeger. The Hunter.

GHOST FLIGHT, the explosive debut from TV presenter and survival expert Bear Grylls, was inspired by the experiences of Bear's grandfather, Brigadier Ted Grylls, and his role in a secret task force during World War II.

Private Royals: BookShots (A Private Thriller)

• Author: James Patterson
• Print Length: 160 pages 
• Publisher: BookShots Digital (June 2, 2016)
• Publication Date: June 2, 2016
• Sold by: PRH UK
• Language: English
• ASIN: B01D8F78CQ

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.

Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private.

At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen’s 90th birthday, Jack receives a phone call from the Duke of Aldershot saying that his daughter, Abbie, has been kidnapped. He needs Private on the case – one word to the police and Abbie will be killed.

Into the Whirlwind (BOSS, Inc.)

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• Author: Kat Martin
• Series: BOSS, Inc.
• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (May 31, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1420139029
• ISBN-13: 978-1420139020

"I love her books!" --Linda Lael Miller

"Martin is superb." --RT Book Reviews

A bodyguard, a bounty hunter, a private investigator, no one can handle the heat like the men of BOSS, Inc. 

Megan O'Brien is at her wit's end. Her three-year-old son has been kidnapped. No police, says the ransom demand. Fearing for her son's life, Meg has no choice but to turn to her former bodyguard, Dirk Reynolds. 

Dirk's never forgiven Meg for the way she left him after their brief affair. But with bounty hunter Luke Brodie on his side, Dirk knows he's got to help Meg rescue her son. 

The few clues they’ve gathered send them spiraling into a murky world of big banking and international crime. Meg may be way out of her depths, but she’s seeing a side of Dirk she never suspected—one no woman could possibly resist.

The Course of Love: A Novel (Alain de Botton)

• Author: Alain de Botton
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (June 14, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1501134256
• ISBN-13: 978-1501134258

“The Course of Love is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton’s name in the mid-1990s….love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods and insecurities to the page.” —The New York Times

The long-awaited and beguiling second novel from Alain de Botton that tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership, from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. De Botton’s essay “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person” (The New York Times, May 28, 2016), which draws from The Course of Love, was the #1 most emailed article for days.

We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading.

This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. The result is a sensory experience—fictional, philosophical, psychological—that urges us to identify deeply with these characters and to reflect on his and her own experiences in love. Fresh, visceral, and utterly compelling, The Course of Love is a provocative and life-affirming novel for everyone who believes in love.

Clockwork Phoenix 5 (Volume 5)

• Author: Mike Allen
• Series: Clockwork Phoenix 
• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: Mythic Delirium Books (April 5, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0988912473
• ISBN-13: 978-0988912472

“Allen’s strange and lovely fifth genre-melding fantasy anthology selects 20 new short stories of unusual variety, texture, compassion, and perception . . . All the stories afford thought-provoking glimpses into alternative realities that linger, sparking unconventional thoughts, long after they are first encountered.”
—Publisher Weekly, starred review

“The arrangement is superb. This anthology of 20 stories can resemble a symphony of themes and variations in a wide range of keys, or a tapestry whose elements form patterns of imagery and meaning that shift and offer new insights throughout the book.”
—Locus

The Clockwork Phoenix anthologies offer homes to “well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously,” as Locus Magazine once put it.

The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies returns for a fifth incarnation, triumphantly risen from the ashes after another successful Kickstarter campaign. This is the largest installment yet, holding twenty new tales of beauty and strangeness. Each story leads you into unmapped territory, there to find shock and delight.

With fiction from Jason Kimble, Rachael K. Jones, Patricia Russo, Marie Brennan, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Rob Cameron, A. C. Wise, Gray Rinehart, Sam Fleming, Sunil Patel, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez, Holly Heisey, Barbara Krasnoff, Sonya Taaffe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Shveta Thakrar, Cassandra Khaw, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, and Beth Cato.

Table of Contents

“The Wind at His Back” by Jason Kimble

“The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones

“The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo

“The Mirror-City” by Marie Brennan

“The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

“Squeeze” by Rob Cameron

“A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death)” by A.C. Wise

“The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray Rinehart

“The Prime Importance of a Happy Number” by Sam Fleming

“Social Visiting” by Sunil Patel

“The Book of May” by C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez

“The Tiger’s Silent Roar” by Holly Heisey

“Sabbath Wine” by Barbara Krasnoff

“The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe

“Two Bright Venuses” by Alex Dally MacFarlane

“By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” by Shveta Thakrar

“The Games We Play” by Cassandra Khaw

“The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts” by Keffy R.M. Kehrli

Marrying Winterborne (Lisa Kleypas)

• Author: Lisa Kleypas
• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Avon (May 31, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062371851
• ISBN-13: 978-0062371850

A ruthless tycoon

Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to ensure she marries him, so much the better . . .

A sheltered beauty

Helen has had little contact with the glittering, cynical world of London society. Yet Rhys’s determined seduction awakens an intense mutual passion. Helen’s gentle upbringing belies a stubborn conviction that only she can tame her unruly husband. As Rhys’s enemies conspire against them, Helen must trust him with her darkest secret. The risks are unthinkable . . . the reward, a lifetime of incomparable bliss. And it all begins with…

Marrying Winterborne

The Marked Girl (Lindsey Klingele)

• Author: Lindsey Klingele
• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: HarperTeen (June 7, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062380338
• ISBN-13: 978-0062380333

Worlds collide in Lindsey Klingele’s debut young adult novel, The Marked Girl, an exciting fantasy tale turned upside down. Elissa Sussman, author of Stray, calls The Marked Girl “a magical debut with a big heart.”

When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his fellow royal friends (including his betrothed, Kat) find themselves stranded in modern-day LA via a magical portal and an evil traitor named Malquin, all they want to do is get home to Caelum—soon. Then they meet Liv, a filmmaker foster girl who just wants to get out of the system and on with her life. As she and Cedric bond, they’ll discover that she’s more connected to his world than they ever could’ve imagined…and that finding home is no easy task.

The Marked Girl has humor, heart, and harrowing adventures, perfect for fantasy lovers and reluctant fantasy readers alike.

The Child - (Sebastian Fitzek)

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• Print Length: 384 pages
• Publisher: Sphere (November 13, 2014)
• Publication Date: November 13, 2014
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00OGLKJZA

Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would.

But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...

Brighton: A Novel (Michael Harvey)

• Author: Michael Harvey
• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Ecco (June 14, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006244297X
• ISBN-13: 978-0062442970

“The f**king bomb! I loved it.” —Stephen King

A gritty and suspenseful Boston thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane and The Departed

An extraordinary thriller—gripping, haunting, and marvelously told—about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.

“You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta kill it first.”

Kevin Pearce—baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton—was fifteen when he left town in the back of his uncle’s cab. He and his buddy Bobby Scales had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn’t want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin’s future would remain bright as ever. At least that was the way things were supposed to work, except in Brighton things never work the way they’re supposed to.

Twenty-six years later, Kevin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the Boston Globe. He’s never been back to his old block, having avoided his family and, especially, Bobby Scales. Then he learns his old friend is the prime suspect in a string of local murders. Suddenly, Kevin’s headed home—to protect a friend and the secret they share. To report this story to the end and protect those he loves, he must face not only an elusive, slippery killer, but his own corrupted conscience.

A powerhouse of a thriller, Brighton is a riveting and elegiac exploration of promises broken, debts owed, and old wrongs made right . . . no matter what the cost.

Stranger of Tempest: Book One of The God Fragments

Author: Tom Lloyd

• Print Length: 480 pages 
• Publisher: Gollancz (June 16, 2016)
• Publication Date: June 16, 2016
• Language: English
• ASIN: B01175KEAC

Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's principalities, he walks the land in search of purpose. He wants for little so bodyguard work keeps his belly full and his mage-gun loaded. It might never bring a man fame or wealth, but he's not forced to rely on others or kill without cause.

Little could compel Lynx to join a mercenary company, but he won't turn his back on a kidnapped girl. At least the job seems simple enough; the mercenaries less stupid and vicious than most he's met over the years.

So long as there are no surprises or hidden agendas along the way, it should work out fine.

The Island House (Nancy Thayer )

• Author: Nancy Thayer
• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 31, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1101967048
• ISBN-13: 978-1101967041

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer evokes the shimmering seascape of Nantucket in a delightful novel that resonates with the heartache and hope of growing up, growing wise, and the bittersweet choices we must be brave enough to make.
 
Courtney Hendricks will never forget the magical summers she spent on Nantucket with her college roommate, Robin Vickerey, and Robin’s charismatic, turbulent, larger-than-life family, in their gorgeous island house. Now a college English professor in Kansas City, Courtney is determined to experience one more summer in this sun-swept paradise. Her reason for going is personal: Courtney needs to know whether Robin’s brother James shares the feelings she’s secretly had for him.
 
Time with the Vickerey family always involves love and laughter, and this season is no different. Vivacious matriarch Susanna Vickerey is celebrating her sixtieth birthday, but beneath the merriment, trouble is brewing. The family patriarch, Dr. Alastair Vickerey, is quiet and detached, while unspoken tension looms over oldest son Henry, a respected young surgeon. Warm and witty Robin, the most grounded of the siblings, is keeping a secret from her parents. Iris, the colorful baby of the brood, remains rudderless and in need of guidance. And the sexy, stunningly handsome, untouchable James—to Courtney’s dismay—may be in love with a beautiful and vibrant local artist. As the summer unfolds, a crisis escalates, surprising truths are revealed, and Courtney will at last find out where her heart and her future lie.
 
Weaving the trials and uncertainty of real life into a tapestry of passion, hope, and courage,The Island House is a beautifully told story about the ties that bind us—and how the blessings of love and family heal us in ways we never dream possible.