Notable New Releases: February 2015
February looks like it’s going to be a tremendous month for new releases, particularly for historical fiction fans. Kristin Hannah takes readers to WWII-era France in The Nightingale, while Hazel Gaynor tells the story of young woman in 1910s London (A Memory of Violets). Andrea Chapin takes on Shakespeare and his muse in The Tutor, and historian Alison Weir is back with a new novel of Elizabeth I, The Marriage Game. Kate Alcott has a new novel, A Touch of Stardust, that recreates the sets, the stars, and the drama surrounding the filming of Gone with the Wind as she observes the relationship between Clark Gable and Carole Lombard through the eyes of a Hollywood newcomer. And Dewey Lambdin continues Alan Lewrie’s naval adventures with the twenty-first book in the series, Kings and Emperors. Additionally, there are new literary works from Stephanie Kegan (Golden State) and Anne Tyler (A Spool of Blue Thread), as well as story collections from Katherine Heiny (Single, Carefree, Mellow) and Jonathan Lethem (Lucky Alan: And Other Stories), plus a new anthology combining otherworldly stories by Poe, Franz Kafka, and Joyce Carol Oates (The Uncanny Reader, edited by Marjorie Sandor). And that’s just from the “Fiction & Literature” category of my little round-ups. Get ready for a big month of exciting new reads, bookworms!
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault (Hesperus Press, 1/1)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press, 2/3)
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor (William Morrow, 2/3)
Holy Cow: A Modern-Day Dairy Tale by David Duchovny (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2/3)
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby (Riverhead, 2/3)
Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny (Knopf, 2/3)
The Price of Blood (The Emma of Normandy Trilogy #2) by Patricia Bracewell (Viking, 2/5)
The Tutor by Andrea Chapin (Riverhead, 2/5)
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link (Random House, 2/10)
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Bond Street Books, 2/10)
The Marriage Game by Alison Weir (Ballantine Books, 2/10)
The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth (St. Martin’s Press, 2/10)
Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson, 2/10)The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty by Amanda Filipacchi (W.W. Norton & Co., 2/16)
Golden State by Stephanie Kegan (Simon & Schuster, 2/17)
Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman (Scribner, 2/17)
Making Nice by Matt Sumell (Henry Holt & Co., 2/17)
Better Than Perfect by Melissa Kantor (HarperTeen, 2/17)
A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott (Doubleday, 2/17)
Prodigal Son by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press, 2/24)
Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister (Putnam, 2/24)
Lucky Alan: And Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, 2/24)
Kings and Emperors by Dewey Lambdin (Thomas Dunne Books, 2/24)
The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows by Marjorie Sandor (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2/24)
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (William Morrow, 2/3)
Death of a Liar (Hamish Macbeth #31) by M.C. Beaton (Grand Central Publishing, 2/3)
Crash & Burn (Tessa Leoni #3) by Lisa Gardner (Dutton, 2/3)
The Marauders by Tom Cooper (Crown, 2/3)
Obsession in Death (In Death #40) by J.D. Robb (Putnam, 2/10)
Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger (Touchstone, 2/10)
A Woman Unknown (Kate Shackleton #4) by Frances Brody (Minotaur, 2/10)
Motive (Alex Delaware #30) by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine Books, 2/10)
Twelve Days (John Wells #9) by Alex Berenson (Putnam, 2/10)My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh (Amy Einhorn Books, 2/10)
The First Wife by Erica Spindler (St. Martin’s Press, 2/10)
Fiercombe Manor by Kate Riordan (Harper, 2/17)
Dreaming in Spies by Laurie R. King (Bantam, 2/17)
Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke (Kensington, 2/24)
Mightier than the Sowrd by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s Press, 2/24)
Hush Hush (Tess Monaghan #12) by Laura Lippman (William Morrow, 2/24)
Undressed (Country Roads #4.5) by Shannon Richard (Forever Yours, 2/3)
Better When He’s Bold (Welcome to the Point #2) by Jay Crownover (William Morrow, 2/3)
Tight by Alessandra Torre (Alessandra Torre, 2/7)
Time Will Tell (Maybe #3) by Chantal Fernando (Chantal Fernando, 2/9)
Rebound (Boomerang #2) by Noelle August (William Morrow, 2/10)
Obligation (Underground Kings #2) by Aurora Rose Reynolds (Aurora Rose Reynolds, 2/12)The Return (Titan #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Spencer Hill Press, 2/17)
Unexpected Fate (Hope Town #1) by Harper Sloan (Harper Sloan, 2/17)
After Ever Happy (After #4) by Anna Todd (Gallery Books, 2/24)
Thoughtful (Thoughtless #1.5) by S.C. Stephens (Forever, 2/24)
Bon Appetempt by Amelia Morris (Grand Central, 2/3)
The Autumn Balloon by Kenny Porpora (Grand Central Publishing, 2/3)
Kid President’s Guide to Being Awesome by Robby Novak & Brad Montague (HarperCollins, 2/3)
Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors by Zoë Howe (Overlook, 2/5)
It’s What I Do by Lynsey Addario (Penguin Press, 2/5)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper, 2/10)Wide-Open World by John Marshall (Ballantine Books, 2/10)
All the Wrong Places by Philip Connors (W.W. Norton & Co., 2/16)
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon (Dey Street Books, 2/24)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment by Henry Cartier-Bresson (Steidl, 4/24)
Beautiful Beloved (Beautiful Bastard #3.6) by Christina Lauren (Pocket Star, 2/2)
Quarterback Draw (Play by Play #9) by Jaci Burton (Berkley, 2/3)
The Raven (The Florentine #1) by Sylvain Reynard (Berkley, 2/3)
The Unexpected Consequences of Love by Jill Mansell (Sorucebooks Landmark, 2/3)
Always Loving You (Danvers #6) by Sydney Landon (Signet, 2/3)
Earls Just Want to Have Fun (Convent Garden Cubs #1) by Shana Galen (Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2/3)
The Master (The Game Maker #2) by Kresley Cole (Gallery Books, 2/17)One Wish (Thunder Point #7) by Robyn Carr (Mira, 2/24)
The Immortal Who Loved Me (Argeneau #21) by Lynsay Sands (Avon, 2/24)
Back in the Game (Stardust, Texas #1) by Lori Wilde (Avon, 2/24)
The Girls of Mischief Bay (Mischief Bay #1) by Susan Mallery (Mira, 2/24)
The Tempting of Thomas Carrick (Cynsters #22) by Stephanie Laurens (Mira, 2/24)
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow, 2/3)
Ghost Killer (Ghost Seer #3) by Robin D. Owens (Berkley, 2/3)
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Tor Books, 2/3)
Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Judd Trichter (Thomas Dunne Books, 2/3)
Dark Intelligence (Transformation #1) by Neal Asher (Night Shade Books, 2/3)
The Diabolical Miss Hyde (Electric Empire #1) by Viola Carr (Harper Voyager, 2/10)The Glittering World by Robert Levy (Gallery Books, 2/10)
Blood Infernal (The Order of the Sanguines #3) by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell (Orion, 2/10)
Fortune’s Blight (Shattered Kingdoms #2) by Evie Manieri (Tor Books, 2/17)
Find Me by Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1/17)
I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios (Henry Holt BYR, 2/3)
The Forgetting by Nicole Maggi (SourceBooks Fire, 2/3)
Invaded (Alienated #2) by Melissa Landers (Disney-Hyperion, 2/3)
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga (Balzer Bray, 2/10)
Red Queen (Red Queen Trilogy #1) by Victoria Aveyard (Orion, 2/10)
The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6) by Richelle Mead (Razorbill, 2/10)
The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand (HarperTeen, 2/10)
The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2/10)
The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson (Putnam Juvenile, 2/10)When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2/10)
The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes (HarperTeen, 2/17)
Half the World (Shattered Sea #2) by Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey, 2/17)
When My Heart Was Wicked by Tricia Stirling (Scholastic, 2/24)
A Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic #1) by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books, 2/24)
Shadow Study (Soulfinders #1) by Maria V. Snyder (Mira, 2/24)
Notable New Releases is a monthly series highlighting a hand-picked selection of new books in American publishing. My goal is to provide a place for readers to get a glimpse at some of the new titles available, to keep up with their most anticipated books of the year and hopefully find a new read (or two or three) along the way. Notable New Releases is a one-woman show and publication dates are always subject to change. If there’s a book coming out in future months that you’d like to see included in the series, recommendations are always welcome!
