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1. Blackberry Winter

By Sarah Jio

In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels?he Violets

of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter?aking its title from a late season, cold weather phenomenon?io continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time.

Seattle,1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and departs to work the nightshift at a local hotel. She emerges to discover that a May Day snow has blanketed the city, and that her son has disappeared.

Seattle, 2010. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, assigned to cover the May 1 ?lackberry winter?storm and its twin, learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth. Are she and Vera linked in unexpected ways?



2. City of Dark Magic

By Magnus Flyte

Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it? whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven? manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood. Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven? ?mmortal Beloved,?she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide.

And now the story continues with City of Lost Dreams, the mesmerizing sequel that hits shelves this December, which finds Sarah in the heart of Vienna, embroiled in a new web of mystical secrets and treacherous lies.



3. The Confidant

By Helene Gremillon, Alison Anderson

Paris, 1975. Camille sifts through letters of condolence after her mother's death when a strange, handwritten missive stops her short. At first she believes she received it by mistake. But then, a new letter arrives each week from a mysterious stranger, Louis, who seems intent on recounting the story of his first love, Annie. They were separated in the years before World War II when Annie befriended a wealthy, barren couple and fell victim to a merciless plot just as German troops arrive in Paris. But also awaiting

Camille's discovery is the other side of the story, which will call into question Annie's innocence and reveal the devastating consequences of jealousy and revenge. As Camille reads on, she begins to realize that her own life may be the next chapter in this tragic story.

Part historical drama, part suspense novel, The Confidant is a stunning debut novel that will captivate readers of Sarah's Key, Suite Fran?ise, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.



4. Believing the Lie

By Elizabeth George

The #1 New York Times bestseller ?nd Elizabeth George's New American

Library debut

After writing sixteen Inspector Lynley novels, New York Times bestselling author

Elizabeth George has millions of fans waiting for the next one. As USA Today put it, "It's tough to resist George's storytelling." With Believing the Lie, she's poised to hook countless more.

Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.

Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict?eads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man

he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.



5. A Good American

By Alex George

?his lush, epic tale of one family's journey...had me alternately laughing and crying, but always riveted. It's a rich, rare treat of a book.??ara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants

By a twist of fate, a young immigrant couple puts down stakes in the small rural town of

Beatrice, Missouri. Unable to speak one word of English, they begin to build their dream around their growing family. Now, their grandson, James, sets out to tell the story of the Meisenheimer family: his mother and father's tragic love story; their son and daughter; their four grandsons; James' best friend, Lomax, a jazz trumpeter from New Orleans who crosses the color line?nd along the way, James will come to realize that some stories are never fully known, and that family secrets often take generations to be uncovered.



6. The Memory of Love

By Linda Olsson

From the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and

Redemption

Fans of Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave's Little Bee will be thrilled to read Linda Olsson's third novel. Here is Olsson doing what she does best: illuminating the terrain of friendship and examining the many forms that love can take.

Marion Flint, a woman in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand? life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. But a chance meeting with a young, damaged boy named Ika and her desire to help him force Marion to open the Pandora's box of her memory. Seized by a sudden urgency to make sense of her past, she examines each image one-by-one: her grandfather, her mother, her brother, her lover. Perhaps if she can create order from the chaos, her memories will be easier to carry. Perhaps she'll be able to find forgiveness for the little girl that was her, for the young woman she had been, and for the people she left behind.



7. The Book of Jonas

By Stephen Dau

? humane and unforgettable portrayal of the lives behind those casualty counts . . . Genuinely important.? The Wall Street Journal

Reviewers from coast to coast have hailed Stephen Dau as a major new literary talent?and his debut novel, The Book of Jonas, as a landmark work about the true cost of war.

In spare, evocative prose, Dau tells the story of Jonas, who is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Middle Eastern country.

After being sent to America, Jonas struggles to assimilate?adapting to his foster family, high school, a first love. He meets Rose Henderson, the mother of the U.S. soldier responsible for saving his life. Christopher Henderson disappeared after the raid that destroyed Jonas's village, and Rose yearns to know the truth. Gradually, a shocking and painful secret emerges.



8. Escape from Camp 14

By Blaine Harden

The heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped

North Korea? political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin? Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Donghyuk.

In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world? most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin? shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence?e saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother.

The late ?ear Leader?Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. It is also a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea? government denies they exist.

Harden? harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world? darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.



9. The Gods of Gotham

By Lyndsay Faye

?f your concept of paradise is popping in a DVD of Gangs of New York while reading Caleb Carr's The Alienist, then put The Gods of Gotham on your tobuy list?( USA Today ).

1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever...

In 1845, Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving up in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams.

But when those dreams are destroyed by a fire that devastates downtown Manhattan, he has little choice but to accept a job in the newly minted New York City Police Department.

Returning from his rounds one night, Tim collides with a little girl covered in blood. She tells him an unbelievable story of dozens of bodies buried in the forest north of Twenty-Third

Street. Now, as the image of a killer is revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, the reluctant cop will engage in a battle that may cost him everything...



10. Some Assembly Required

By Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott

The New York Times bestseller from the ?oyenne of the parenting memoir?(Time)?it's one Lamott's fans will want?(The Washington Post).

?f there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.?Time

In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax? life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam?bout whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions?truggle to balance their changing roles. By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family?s this book will change everyone who reads it.

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