Notable New Releases for the Week of September 22, 2014

How have we reached the last full week of September already? It’s staggering. But, the week brings books, so there’s that. Historical fiction from Lois Leveen and David Liss; a collection of Elizabeth Taylor’s stories edited by Margaret Drabble; a new Temperance Brennan mystery from Kathy Reichs and an Easy Rawlins story from Walter Mosley; fantasy stories from Lauren Oliver and Kate Forsyth; romances from Kristen Ashley and Karen Hawkins; YA books from Kendall Kulper and Scott Westerfeld; NA books from J. Lynn and Rebecca Shea; plus a new nonfiction release from Nicholas Kristof and Sherryl WuDunn, who wrote Half the Sky (which I’m reading now – finally!).

Juliet’s Nurse by Lois Leveen (Atria/Emily Beastler Books, 9/23) * giveaway
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (Little, Brown and Company, 9/23)
The Day of Atonement by David Liss (Random House, 9/23)
Ballroom by Alice Simpson (Harper, 9/23)
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9/23)
Getting Even by Sarah Rayner (St. Martin’s Griffin, 9/23)
You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor edited by Margaret Drabble (NYRB Classics, 9/23)
The High Divide by Lin Enger (Algonquin Books, 9/23)

Chasing the Dollar by Ellie Ashe (Ellie Ashe, 9/22)
Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan #17) by Kathy Reichs (Bantam, 9/23)
To Dwell in Darkness (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #16) by Deborah Crombie (William Morrow, 9/23)
Rose Gold (Easy Rawlins #13) by Walter Mosley (Doubleday, 9/23)
Silent Murders (Roaring Twenties Mystery #2) by Mary Miley (Minotaur Books, 9/23)
Wouldn’t It Be Deadly (Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery #1) by D.E. Ireland (Minotaur Books, 9/23)
The Darkest Hour by Tony Schumacher (William Morrow, 9/23)
Burn (Michael Bennett #7) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Century, 9/25)

Rooms by Lauren Oliver (Ecco, 9/23)
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books, 9/23)
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (Thomas Dunne Books, 9/23) * giveaway
Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books, 9/23)
Daring (Pax Arcana #2) by Elliott James (Orbit, 9/23)
The Seventh Sigil (The Dragon Brigade #3) by Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes (Tor Books, 9/23)
Divinity by Michelle L. Johnson (Spence City, 9/23)
Jabberwocky by Daniel Coleman (Vorpal Words, 9/23) * giveaway

Deacon (Unfinished Hero #4) by Kristen Ashley (Kristen Ashley, 9/23)
Darkness (New Species #12) by Laurann Dohner (Ellora’s Cave, 9/23)
The Prince Who Loved Me (The Oxenburg Princes #1) by Karen Hawkins (Pocket Books, 9/23)
Unforgettable (Undescribable #4) by Shantel Tessier (Shantal Tessier, 9/23)
Prima Donna by Laura Drewry (Loveswept, 9/23)
Slade (Wilde #3) by Adriane Leigh (Adriane Leigh, 9/26)
Two Roads (Gypsy Brothers #6) by Lili St. Germain (Lili St. Germain, 9/28)
Falling for Ava (British Billionaires #2) by Pamela Ann (Pamela Ann, 9/28)

Messenger of Fear (Messenger of Fear #1) by Michael Grant (Katherine Tegen Books, 9/23)
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse, 9/23)
In a Handful of Dust (Not a Drop to Drink #2) by Mindy McGinnis (Katherine Tegen Books, 9/23)
The Bodies We Wear (The Bodies We Wear #1) by Jeyn Roberts (Knopf BYR, 9/23)
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann (Greenwillow Books, 9/23)
Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin (Egmont USA, 9/23)
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (Harper, 9/23)
Salt & Storm by Kendall Kuler (Little, Brown BYR, 9/23)

Unforgiven (Unbreakable #3) by Rebecca Shea (Rebecca Shea, 9/22)
Closer to the Edge (Playing with Fire 34) by Tara Sivec (Tara Sivec, 9/22)
Again by Lisa Burstein (Lisa Burstein, 9/22)
The Rental (The Rental #1) by Rebecca Berto (Rebecca Berto, 9/22)
Fairytale Apocalypse (The Verge #1) by Jacqueline Patricks (Jacqueline Patricks, 9/22)
Stay with Me (Wait for You #3) by J. Lynn (William Morrow, 9/23)
The Edge of You by Theresa DaLayne (Bloomsbury Sark, 9/25)
The Last Thing You See by Emma South (Emma South, 9/26)

Tennessee Williams: Mag Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr (W. W. Norton & Company, 9/22)
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunities by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Knopf, 9/23)
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control by Walter Mischel (Little, Brown and Company, 9/23)
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace… by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner, 9/23)
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9/23)
Jamie’s Comfort Food by Jamie Oliver (Ecco, 9/23)
Hyena by Jude Angelini (Gallery Books, 9/23)
Bowie: The Biography by Wendy LEigh (Gallery Books, 9/23)

Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weird (Ballantine Books, 9/23)
Live to See Tomorrow (Catherine Ling #3) by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 9/23)
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan (Ballantine Books, 9/23)
A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith (Vintage, 9/23)