August New Adult Fiction!

These are some of the new titles that we added to our New Adult Fiction section in August!

 The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan

After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.

Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley

In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. 

Indigo by Charlaine Harris

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member.

Love Story by Karen Kingsbury

Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together.

Shhh....it's a Grave Secret

I am a big fan of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse "Southern Vampire Series." Even though that series (and the HBO series "True Blood" which is based on the books) has made Harris more popular, I am pleased to note that she is still writing new books in her "Harper Connelly series." The newest title is Grave Secrets, and the book traces the events of the lives of Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver. Harper and Tolliver are not related by blood-- Harper's mom and Tolliver's dad were married after Harper and Tolliver were born. Harper and Tolliver have a unique relationship, as they banded together to survive their horrible childhood with drug-addicted parents, struggling to attend school and work enough so that they could take care of their little sisters Gracie and Mariella. Harper was a normal girl, until she was struck by lightning--ever since then she has been able to "hear" the thoughts of dead people by standing on their graves and using her "extra sense" to learn their last thoughts before they died. This talent is especially helpful when it comes to finding murderers and other types of secrets. When Grave Secrets opens, Harper has been hired by a Texas rancher family to discover how the patriarch of the family died. The police were satisfied that it was an accident, but at least one of his children believes it could be foul play. When Harper puts her talents to work, she finds plenty of secrets in this Texas family, that eventually bleed into her own life and add to the mystery of her oldest sister's disappearance. I love the character development in this book! Harper and Tolliver are very "real" to me and I enjoy the "family developments" in the book, almost as much as the mystery. I have enjoyed watching Harper and Tolliver's relationship develop (you'll have to read the book to find out what happens) as well as the bits of their childhood experiences that Harris weaves into the story. This book is a great blend of suspense, action, romance and paranormal mystery that is a fast and easy read. Try it out this book, or one of the others in the series (Grave Secret, Grave Surpise, An Ice Cold Grave) and let us know if you like it!

Sookie Stackhouse Strikes Again!

I just love reading books in the "Southern Vampire Series" starring Sookie Stackhouse! Charlaine Harris has written another winning series entry with her latest title, Dead and Gone. These mysteries are supernatural in nature and are set in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, where Sookie is a telepath who works as a waitress at Merlotte's bar. These mysteries are set in the future, where vampires are "out" because they claim that they have "caught a virus" which makes them susceptible to daylight and forces them to drink blood--however, since a synthetic blood product, TruBlood, exists, the vampires are not as threatening as they could be. Other supernatural beings (such as fairies, werepanthers, shape shifters and demons) exist in this series as well. Since Dead and Gone is the latest book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, I highly recommend you start at the beginning, with Dead until Dark, if you have not read any of these books. Lots of events occur in each story, that build upon the previous stories and I am afraid you'd be hopelessly lost if you started the series' with Harris' latest. Dead and Gone is darker than the other books in the series, but its story arcs push the events of Sookie's life onward. Sookie Stackhouse is a determined young woman trying to live a normal life in a world that is far from ordinary-I admire Sookie's determination to live life to the fullest no matter what obstacles are thrown in her path. Charlaine Harris creates a fabulous picture of life in Louisiana that I know you will appreciate! Harris has also written the Aurora Teagarden and Harper Connelly mystery series. HBO will begin airing the second season of "True Blood," the television show based on the "Southern Vampire Series" on June 14, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. Check out the show's web site at www.hbo.com/trueblood!

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