Notable New Releases for the Week of December 1, 2014

Happy December, bookworms! To my American friends, I hope you enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday. Here’s a small but exciting selection of new releases to kick off the holiday season (I’ll just pretend I haven’t already been watching Christmas movies for the last month…). We’ve got a new short story from Haruki Murakami, cozy mysteries from Cleo Coyle and Rose Pressey, and a new addition to the Dark Angels series from Keri Arthur. Alice Clayton has the latest in her Cocktail series (I hear endlessly good things about that) and Jill Shalvis has a holiday story available. There’s also Lisa Mantchev’s Ticker in young adult, new work from Abbi Glines in new adult, and a few interesting nonfiction releases, including Tracy Borman’s look at the life of Thomas Cromwell and Brent Phillips’s biography of Charles Walter. And among the paperback releases are Dan Simmons’s The Abominable and Nina Stegal’s The Anatomy Lesson (complete with a lovely new cover). Enjoy!

The Strange Librazry by Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 12/2)
Independently Wealthy by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal (Thomas Dunne Books, 12/2)
How to Be Both by Ali Smith (Pantheon, 12/2)
You Could Be Home By Now by Tracy Manaster (Tyrus Books, 12/5)

Once Upon a Grind (Coffeehouse Mystery #14) by Cleo Coyle (Berkley, 12/2)
The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer (Paws and Claws Mystery #2) by Krista Davis (Berkley, 12/2)
If You’ve Got It, Haunt It (A Haunted Vintage Mystery #1) by Rose Pressey (Kensington, 12/2)
The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie #2) by Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/2)

Wickedly Wonderful (Baba Yaga #2) by Deborah Blake (Berkley, 12/2)
Spirit of the Wolves (Wolf Chronicles #3) by Dorothy Hearst (Simon & Schuster, 12/2)
Darkness Fals (Dark Angels #7) by Keri Arthur (Signet, 12/2)
The King’s Deryni (The Childe Morgan #3) by Katherine Kurtz (Ace, 12/2)

Idle Bloom by Jewel E. Ann (Jewel E. Ann, 12/1)
Forever with Me (With Me in Seattle #8) by Kristen Proby (Ampersand Publishing, 12/2)
Mai Tai’d Up (Cocktail #4) by Alice Clayton (Gallery Books, 12/2)
Merry Christmas, Baby (Lucky Harbor #12.5) by Jill Shalvis (Grand Central Publishing, 12/2)

Paragon: Legacy Code 2) by Autumn Kalquist (Diapason Publishing, 12/1)
Defect: Part Three by Autumn Kalquist (Diapason Publishing, 12/1) * giveaway
Ticker by Lisa Mantchev (Skyscape, 12/1) * giveaway
The Boy with the Hidden Name (Otherworld #2) by Skylar Dorset (Sourcebooks Fire, 12/2) * giveaway

You Were Mine (Rosemary Beach #9) by Abbi Glines (Atria Books, 12/2)
Easy Virtue (Virtue #1) by Mia Asher (Mia Asher, 12/3)
You and Everything After (Falling #2) by Ginger Scott (Ginger Scott, 12/5)
The Accidental Assassin by Nichole Chase (Nichole Chase, 12/4)

Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story… by Tracy Borman (Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/2)
Judy: A Dog in a Million by Damien Lewis (Quercus, 12/2)
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer edited by Michael Lennon (Random House, 12/2)
Charles Walter: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance by Brent Phillips (University Press of Kentucky, 12/5)

I am Pilgrim (Pilgrim #1) by Terry Hayes (Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 12/2)
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman (Vintage, 12/2)
The Abominable by Dan Simons (Back Bay Books, 12/2)
The Anatomy Lesson by Nina Siegal (Anchor, 12/2)