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Below are a few of the new ebooks to be released in February. Most are available for pre-order at the Kindle Store and from Barnes & Noble. Upon release, many should be available from Koboas well. You can find a complete listing of new ebooks to be released in February at the Kindle Store here
Children’s & Young Adults Fiction
I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine’s Legacy by Pittacus Lore. $3.99. Feb 1. YA Sci-Fi; Short story. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play by Ridley Pearson and MacLeod Andrews. $6.92. Feb 1. Children’s fantasy. This one has been at the Kindle Store for a while, but is new to Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Pandemonium (Delirium) by Lauren Oliver. $9.99. Teen romance; Dystopian; Forbidden love. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble. Also from the same author: Hana, a short story set in the same world, will also be released on Feb 28 for $2.99 at the Kindle Store and B&N.
Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo (4 1/2 stars/19 reviews) $13.99. Due Feb 7. Selected by Amazon as one of the Best Books of February 2012. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult. $14.99. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble. 
In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren’t so lucky.
Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father. Edward understands that some things cannot be fixed, though memories of his domineering father still inflict pain. Then comes a frantic phone call: Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with Edward’s younger sister, Cara.
Spin by Catherine McKenzie (4 stars/14 reviews). $9.99. Due Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
When Kate Sandford lands an interview at her favorite music magazine, The Line, it’s the chance of a lifetime. So Kate goes out to celebrate—and shows up still drunk to the interview the next morning. It’s no surprise that she doesn’t get the job, but her performance has convinced the editors that she’d be perfect for an undercover assignment for their gossip rag. All Kate has to do is follow "It Girl" Amber Sheppard into rehab. If she can get the inside scoop—and complete the thirty-day program—they’ll reconsider her for the position at The Line. Kate takes the assignment, but when real friendships start to develop, she has to decide if what she has to gain is worth the price she’ll have to pay.
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Pure by Julianna Baggott (4 1/2 stars/22 reviews). $12.99. Due Feb 8. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.
A Perfect Blood (The Hollows) by Kim Harrison (4 1/2 stars/30 reviews). $12.99. Feb 21. Latest installment in the Rachal Morgan series. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt. $9.99. Feb 1. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory.
Torn (Trylle) by Amanda Hocking (4 stars/169 reviews). $8.99. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble.
The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice(5 stars/2 reviews). $12.99. Feb 14. Also at Barnes & Noble. Interview with the Vampire author does werewolves.
Historical fiction
Matt Jensen: The Last Mountain Man # 7: Massacre at Powder River by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone. $4.79. Feb 7. Western. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers
A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison (5 stars/24 reviews). $9.59. Due Feb 2. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Ahalya Ghai and her younger sister Sita are as close as sisters can be. But their childhood ends abruptly when a tsunami rips through their village on India’s Coromandel coast. They are the sole survivors of their family. Destitute, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent in Chennai, many miles away. A driver agrees to take them, but the moment they get into that car their fate is sealed. The two sisters – confused, reliant on each other – are sold. Worse, they are separated.
On the other side of the world, Washington lawyer Thomas Clarke is struggling to cope after the death of his baby daughter and the collapse of his marriage. He takes a sabbatical from his high-pressure job and accepts a position with the Bombay branch of an international anti-trafficking group.
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson (4 stars/12 reviews). $12.99. Due Feb 21. British mystery.
Bleed for Me (Joseph O’loughlin) by Michael Robotham. $12.99. Feb 27. Also at Barnes & Noble.
A teenage girl–Sienna, a troubled friend of his daughter–comes to Joe O’Loughlin’s door one night. She is terrorized, incoherent-and covered in blood.
The police find Sienna’s father, a celebrated former cop, murdered in the home he shared with Sienna. Tests confirm that it’s his blood on Sienna. She says she remembers nothing.
Joe O’Loughlin is a psychologist with troubles of his own. His marriage is coming to an end and his daughter will barely speak to him. He tries to help Sienna, hoping that if he succeeds it will win back his daughter’s affection. But Sienna is unreachable, unable to mourn her father’s death or to explain it.
Investigators take aim at Sienna. O’Loughlin senses something different is happening, something subterranean and terrifying to Sienna. It may be something in her mind. Or it may be something real. Someone real. Someone capable of the most grim and gruesome murder, and willing to kill again if anyone gets too close.
Catch Me by Lisa Gardner. $12.99. Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Celebrity In Death by J.D. Robb. $14.99. Feb 21. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she’s managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It’s a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director’s luxury building. Now she’s at the center of a crime scene-and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: cop.
Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen) by Joanne Fluke. $9.99. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Fatal Flaw by Marie Force. $2.99. Feb 6. Romantic suspense; Book 4 in the Fatal series. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp) by Vince Flynn. $14.99. Feb 7. Thriller; CIA agents. Also at Barnes & Noble.
#1 internationally bestselling author Vince Flynn delivers the young, hungry, and lethal Mitch Rapp at the onset of his career as a CIA superagent.In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp’s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life.
Left for Dead by J.A. Jance. $12.99. Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
The Lying Game #3: Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard. $9.99. Latest from the author of Pretty Little Liars series. Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
No Mark upon Her by Deborah Crombie (4 1/2 stars/36 reviews). $12.99. Feb 7. Suspense. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Oath of Office by Michael Palmer. $14.99. Feb 14. Medical/Political thriller. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Private Games by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (5 stars/1 reviews) $14.99. Feb 13. Thriller; Set in London at 2012 Olympic Games. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Restless in the Grave (Kate Shugak) by Dana Stabenow. $12.99. Feb 14. Latest installment in mystery series set in Alaska. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Robert Ludlum’s (TM) The Janson Command by Paul Garrison. $14.99. Due Feb 14. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman (4 1/2 stars/10 reviews) $13.99. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Nonfiction
Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson, Terence Winter and Terence Winter (4 stars/44 reviews). $7.69. Due Feb 1. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner. $14.99. Feb 14. A history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations. Also at Barnes & Noble.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (4 1/2 stars/267 reviews). $12.99. Due Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women by Nura Maznavi and Ayesha Mattu (5 stars/33 reviews). $8.99. Due Feb 1. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Romance, dating, sex and – Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be–from singles’ events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.
These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend. A young girl defies her South Asian parents’ cultural expectations with an interracial relationship. And a Southern woman agrees to consider an arranged marriage, with surprising results.
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews). $13.99. Due Feb 14. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Romance
Against the Night (The Raines of Wind Canyon) by Kat Martin. $4.96. Feb 28. Romantic suspense. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Blue Moon Promise (Under Texas Stars) by Colleen Coble (5 stars/4 reviews). $9.99. Due Feb 14. Historical romance; Western. Also at Barnes & Noble.
The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter. $4.89. Feb 28. Paranormal romance. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Deadly Sins by Lora Leigh. $7.99. Feb 28. Romantic suspense. Also at Barnes & Noble.
The Dressmaker: A Novel by Kate Alcott (4 stars/42 reviews). $12.99. Due Feb 21. Historical romance set on the Titanic and in the aftermath of its sinking. Also at Barnes & Noble.
I’ve Got Your Number: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella (4 1/2 stars/26 reviews). $12.99. Feb 14. Romantic comedy. Also at Barnes & Noble.
One in a Million: One in a Million\A Dad for Her Twins (Bestselling Author Collection) by Susan Mallery and Tanya Michaels. $4.79. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble. Bundle of two romance titles.
Private Arrangements (Kimani Romance) by Brenda Jackson. $4.61. Feb 1. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor) by Lisa Kleypas (4 stars/7 reviews). $9.99. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble. 
Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fiancé Kevin has left her. His new lover is Lucy’s own sister. Lucy’s bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life. Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy’s parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, a local vineyard owner on San Juan Island, to "romance" Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, Kevin has second thoughts, and Lucy discovers that the new relationship in her life began under false pretenses. Questions about love, loyalty, old patterns, mistakes, and new beginnings are explored as Lucy learns that some things in life—even after being broken—can be made into something new and beautiful.
Redwood Bend (A Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr. $4.89. Feb 28. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Katie Malone and her twin boys’ trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance. To make matters worse, the rain has set in, the boys are hungry and Katie is having trouble putting on a spare. As she stands at the side of the road pondering her next move, she hears a distinct rumble. The sight of the sexy, leather-clad bikers who pull up beside her puts her imagination into overdrive.
Dylan Childress and his buddies are on the motorcycle trip of a lifetime. But the sight of a woman in distress stops them in their tracks. And while the guys are checking out her car, she and Dylan are checking out one another.
The Seduction of Sebastian Trantor: From It Happened One Season by Stephanie Laurens. $0.99. Feb 7. Historical romance. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Sebastian Trantor is in need of a wife. But although he’s scouted the ballrooms, drawing rooms, and salons of London, he’s yet to find a single worthwhile candidate in the young ladies paraded before him. They simper; they giggle; they are completely unsuitable.
Then, he discovers Tabitha Makepeace—breaking into a desk! He quickly realizes that this clever and resourceful young lady is the bride for him—but how is he to convince her of that?
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New ebook releases for January
Below are a few of the many (over 24,000 at the Kindle Store) new ebooks to be released in January.as well as at other ebooksellers.
Children’s & Young Adults Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (5 stars/161 reviews) $10.99. Jan 10. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Contemporary & Literary Fiction
American Dervish: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar (5 stars/1 review) $11.99. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.
Mina is Hayat’s mother’s oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent, beautiful and intelligent, and arrives on the Shah’s doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan disintegrates. Even Hayat’s skeptical father can’t deny the liveliness and happiness that accompanies Mina into their home. Her deep spirituality brings the family’s Muslim faith to life in a way that resonates with Hayat as nothing has before. Studying the Quran by Mina’s side and basking in the glow of her attention, he feels an entirely new purpose mingled with a growing infatuation for his teacher.
Lunatics: A Novel by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibe (4 stars/18 reviews) Humor. $12.99. Jan 10. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (5 stars/4 reviews) $9.48. Jan 3. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it’s impossible to stay apolitical—where the man who used to sell you gifts for your family now spews hatred, where the girl who flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down your family. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Rwanda’s first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence. When the killing begins, Jean Patrick is forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, the family, and the country he loves. Finding them again is the race of his life.
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Copper Beach: A Dark Legacy Novel by Jayne Ann Krentz Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble. $12.99. Jan 10.
Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell’s unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market.
Darker After Midnight: A Midnight Breed Novel by Lara Adrian. Vampires. $11.99. Jan 24. Also available at Barnes & Noble.
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (3 stars/15 reviews) $12.99. Jan 17. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Lenobia’s Vow: A House of Night Novella by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast. Paranormal romance. $9.99. Jan 31. Also available at Barnes & Noble.
Lothaire by Kresley Cole. Vampires. $11.99. Jan 10. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers
Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith (3 stars/16 reviews) $12.99. Jan 5. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
The 7th Month: A Detective D. D. Warren Story (An eSpecial from Dutton) by Lisa Gardner. Short story, $1.99. Due Jan 10. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Defending Jacob: A Novel by William Landay (4 1/2 stars/14 reviews) $12.99. Jan 31. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Edge of Midnight (The Chasing Evil Trilogy) by Leslie Tentler (4 1/2 stars/5 reviews). $4.89. Due Feb 1. Suspense set in New Orleans. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Gideon’s Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. $12.99. Jan 10. Also available at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.
Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse–far worse–than mere Armageddon.
The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel of North Korea by Adam Johnson (4 1/2 stars/16 reviews) $12.99. Jan 10. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
Private: #1 Suspect (Jack Morgan) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (4 stars/14 reviews) $12.99. Jan 2. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen: A Novel by Thomas Caplan. $12.99. Jan 10. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month, Jan 2012.
This gripping thriller from Thomas Caplan propels readers around the globe-from Hollywood to Rome, the Black Sea to the Mediterranean-and to the very brink of nuclear abyss.
The novel’s charismatic hero, former covert operative Ty Hunter, has become, almost by accident, the number one film star in the world. When he is recruited on a clandestine mission to thwart the transfer of nuclear warheads into rogue hands, he must deploy every skill he has as an actor, soldier, and spy. Donning his fame as a disguise, Ty matches wits and muscle with the enigmatic billionaire Ian Santal and his nefarious protégé Philip Frost-two supremely sophisticated adversaries- even as he falls in love with the entrancing young woman closest to them both, the jewelry designer Isabella Cavill.
Nonfiction
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley. History of the rise and fall of the Venetian empire. $15.99. Jan 24. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history. by Diane Brady (4 1/2 stars/19 reviews) $12.99. Jan 3. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Hiding from Reality by Taylor Armstrong. $11.99. Due Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
Reality hit Taylor Armstrong hard one tragic evening last August when she found the body of her estranged husband, Russell, hanging in his California home. Fans across the country were shocked at the horrific news of his death and even more shocked to discover that behind the glittering “reality” of Taylor’s life on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills lurked a painful story of emotional and physical abuse that she had been terrified to tell.
An estimated 80 percent of domestic abuse victims remain silent, suffocated by fear and relentless self-doubt. For Taylor, it was the threat of financial ruin and finding herself alone with her young daughter that kept her tethered to her volatile husband. But after a ferocious roundhouse punch from Russell fractured her face, resulting in reconstructive surgery, she finally made the brave decision to walk away from a man she loved and a legacy of physical abuse that she first encountered as a child and that haunted her throughout her adulthood.
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson. $12.99. Jan 24. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Barnes & Noble.
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor. $14.99. Jan 10. Also at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (4 1/2 stars/31 reviews) $13.99. Jan 24. Chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month. Also at Barnes & Noble.
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society–from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.
Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie’s birthplace to Harvard Business School, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. She talks to Asian-American students who feel alienated from the brash, backslapping atmosphere of American schools. She questions the dominant values of American business culture, where forced collaboration can stand in the way of innovation, and where the leadership potential of introverts is often overlooked. And she draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the surprising differences between extroverts and introverts.
Romance
Believing the Lie (Inspector Lynley Series #16) by Elizabeth George. $14.99. Jan 10. Also available at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae (Cynster Sisters Trilogy) by Stephanie Laurens. Historical romance; Scottish Highlands. $6.99. Jan 31. Also at Barnes & Noble.
The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel by Margot Livesey (4 stars/23 reviews) $12.99. Also at Barnes & Noble.
When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of her resentful aunt, and it soon becomes clear that she is nothing more than an unwelcome guest at Yew House. When she receives a scholarship to a private school, ten-year-old Gemma believes she’s found the perfect solution and eagerly sets out again to a new home. However, at Claypoole she finds herself treated as an unpaid servant.
To Gemma’s delight, the school goes bankrupt, and she takes a job as an au pair on the Orkney Islands. The remote Blackbird Hall belongs to Mr. Sinclair, a London businessman; his eight-year-old niece is Gemma’s charge. Even before their first meeting, Gemma is, like everyone on the island, intrigued by Mr. Sinclair. Rich (by Gemma’s standards), single, flying in from London when he pleases, Hugh Sinclair fills the house with life. An unlikely couple, the two are drawn to each other, but Gemma’s biggest trial is about to begin: a journey of passion and betrayal, redemption and discovery, that will lead her to a life of which she’s never dreamed.
Set in Scotland and Iceland in the 1950s and ’60s, The Flight of Gemma Hardy—a captivating homage to Charlotte BrontË’s Jane Eyre—is a sweeping saga that resurrects the timeless themes of the original but is destined to become a classic all its own.
Home Front by Kristin Hannah (4 1/2 stars/19 reviews). Troubled marriage, toll of war on family. $14.99. Jan 31. Also available at Barnes & Noble.
A Lady Never Surrenders (The Hellions of Halstead Hall) by Sabrina Jeffries. Historical romance. $7.99. Jan 24. Also available at Barnes & Noble.
The Lone Wolfe (Harlequin Presents) by Kate Hewitt (5 stars/1reviews). $3.44. Due Feb 1. Also at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Rocky Mountain Haven: Six Pack Ranch, Book 2 by Vivian Arend. Western romance. $4.24. Jan 10. Also available at Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
The Summer Garden (Chesapeake Shores) by Sherryl Woods. Contemporary romance. $4.89. Jan 31. Also at Barnes & Noble.
What Happened to Hannah by Mary Kay McComas (4 stars/17 reviews). $9.99. Due Feb 7. Also at Barnes & Noble.
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