Recreation

Fiction New Titles April 2012 (arrived March 2012)

Adventure

The shadow patrol, Alex Berenson.
John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban.
Pantheon, Sam Bourne.
1940 and and Oxford don's wife and child are missing which leads to a frantic search to America and an astonishing plot uncovered.
Micro, Michael Crichton and Richard Preston.
A group of graduate students accept work with a mysterious biotech company in Hawaii only to be abandoned in a treacherous wilderness when they discover their employer's dark agenda.
The thief, Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.
Investigator Isaac Bell is on the trail of a ruthless espionage agent. On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell.
The sentimental traitor, Michael Dobbs.
Young Americans, children of the US diplomatic community in London, are blown up on a plane and the repercussions leads to threats of a coup with a former M.P. running scared.
Robert Ludlum's The Janson command, Robert Ludlum but acutually written by Paul Garrison.
An ex-assassin for the United States government, Paul Janson, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
Trigger point, Matthew Glass.
The United States and China find themselves squaring off against each other after the United States stages a military intervention in East Africa where China has influence.
The tomb of Alexander, Sean Hemingway.
A debut archaeological thriller (from the grandson of Ernest!) about a modern day hunt for the tomb of Alexander the Great.
The expats, Chris Pavone.
Excellent gripping first novel about a CIA operative and her husband who go to Luxembourg where they are befriended by a charming couple who have secrets.
Illusion, Frank Peretti.
A popular couple are in a car crash and she dies. Or so it seems. She awakens as a young woman and he has to find out who she is. Religious inspirations for a tale of life, love and loss.

American Fiction

Carry the one, Carol Anshaw.
High on drink, drugs and general excitement, the last guests leave a wedding reception and hit and kill a girl on a country road. Powerful tale of how their lives change forever.
Coral Glynn, Peter Cameron.
Nursing an elderly cancer patient in an isolated English countryside manse in 1950, Coral interacts with a disgruntled housekeeper and her charge's sexually torn and war-ravaged son until a series of random events culminates in a complicated marriage.
Stay awake : stories, Dan Chaon.
Haunting and suspenseful stories about love, loss, grief and how people cope.
Sonoma Rose : an Elm Creek Quilts novel, Jennifer Chiaverini.
As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Part of the Elm Tree Quilts series.
Falling together, Marisa de los Santos.
Tale of a remarkable friendship that ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion, launching three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past.
What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank : stories, Nathan Englander.
A new collection of short stories from one of the New Yorker's Writers for the 21st Century.
Jane vows vengeance, Michael Thomas Ford.
Part of this wacky comedy series. How will Jane Austen break the news to her fiance that she's not only undead but also a 200 plus year old literary icon.
Monday mornings, Sanjay Gupta.
At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the backdrop for this story.
The snow child, Eowyn Ivey.
Bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel hope that a fresh start in 'Alaska, our newest homeland' will enable them to put the strain of their childless marriage behind them. But the northern wilderness proves as unforgiving as it is beautiful: Jack fears that he will collapse under the strain of creating a farm, and the lonely winter eats its way into Mabel's soul. When the first snow falls, the couple find themselves building a small figure a snow girl. Big pre-publication interest in this unusual novel.
Watergate, Thomas Mallon.
A retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
Heft, Liz Moore.
Brooklyn former academic weighing 550 pounds makes an unexpected friendship with a poor kid in a rich school in this touching novel about love, family.
Lone wolf, Jodi Picoult.
Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
The cove, Ron Rash.
Moving and powerful tale set in rural North Carolina near the end of World War I where a brother and sister are ostracised on their farm.
By blood, Ellen Ullman.
1970s San Francisco and a patient and therapist session is overheard and becomes linked to a Catholic charity that trafficked in freshly baptised babies.

Australian fiction

Blood, Tony Birch.
Two children live with a selfish mother and the older child has to shoulder the burden of parenthood to protect his younger sister in this perceptive tale.
The mothers' group, Fiona Higgins.
Tells the story of six very different women who agree to regularly meet soon after the births of their babies. Set during the first crucial year of their babies' lives, The Mothers' Group tracks the women's individual journeys and the group's collective one as they navigate birth and motherhood as well as the shifting ground of their relationships with their partners.

British Fiction

Three women, Marita Conlon-McKenna.
Three women: Kate, 25 years married; Erin, a girl who wants to discover who she really is; Nina, whose daughter is ready to run off to find her birth mother.
This is paradise, Will Eaves.
An interesting and truthful picture of family life today with a story about a family who come home when their mother falls ill.
Homesick, Roshi Fernando.
The story of closely knit Sri Lankan families in South London, told through linked stories that are funny, touching and fascinating.
Absolution, Patrick Flanery.
Impressive debut about a journalist writing a book about a famous South African author and having to uncover whether she was accomplice or victim of apartheid crime.
A perfectly good man, Patrick Gale.
When a twenty year old man, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of a much loved Cornish priest, the tragedy has huge repercussions for both the priest, the man's family and the community.
The white lie, Andrea Gillies.
From the author of autobiography, "Keeper: living with Nancy", about caring for her mother-in-law with Alzheimer's. A story about families and secrecy, self deception, gief and loss set on a remote Highlands estate.
Painter of silence, Georgina Harding.
A man is found on the steps of a Romanian hospital in 1948 and is found to be deaf and mute. A young nurse brings papers and pencils and gradually the man reveals his past.
All is song, Samantha Harvey.
A story of family duty through the tale of a man who has split up with his girlfriend and whose father dies and what happens when he moves in with his enigmatic brother.
Alys, always, Harriet Lane.
Unusual well reviewed first novel about a woman who comforts and accident victim who later dies and how she builds a relationship with the grieving family whose well off life is far from her own.
The land of decoration, Grace McCleen.
Highly praised first novel. Bullied, motherless ten year old girl lives with her devout father and creates models from cotton scraps and cotton wool and then wonders if she is some sort of miracle worker. This is when her troubles begin.
This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone like you, Jon McGregor.
Collection of short stories, each featuring a Lincolnshire town or village.
The revelations, Alex Preston.
A group of twenty-somethings searching for meaning in life take a course led by a charismatic priest but the course is much different than they'd expected.
This is life, Dan Rhodes.
Described as "Amelie meets 'Knocked up'" in a droll and hilarious missing baby and life in Paris tale.
IOU, Helen Warner.
Well-off wife finds her world turned round when her husband's business collapses. She meets another man and things get messy.

Chicklit & romantic comedy

The secret of happy ever after, Lucy Dillon.
Light hearted and heart warming tale of a woman who takes over a bookshop.
Recipe for love, Katie Fforde.
Take one aspiring cook, one judge, and a spoonful of romance. When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition she's thrilled. It's a chance to cook her way to fame and fortune and the little delicatessen she's set her heart on.
The great escape, Fiona Gibson.
Can any woman ever grab back a piece of her younger self? For one weekend only, Hannah, Sadie and Lou are determined to give it their best.
The house on Willow Street, Cathy Kelly.
Warm rom-com about four Irishwomen who needs to lay their pasts to rest in order to find happiness.
Bella's run, Margareta Osborn.
Bella Vermaelon and her best friend Patty are two fun-loving country girls bonded in a sisterhood no blood tie could ever beat. Now they are coming to the end of a road trip which has taken them from their family farms in the rugged Victorian high country to the red dust of the Queensland outback.

Chinese titles

Fu rong ru mian liu ru mei, Di'an zhu.
Chun jin Jiang nan, Ge Fei zhu.
Hunan luo zi, He Dun zhu.
Xinjiang tan mi lu zhi du mu qing yang, Leng Canhe zhu.
Tie xue yuan zheng jun, Zhao Yunyu zhu.

Fiction from the rest of the World

Entitlement, Jonathan Bennett.
An entertaining Canadian novel about the complex relationship between a poor boy and the wealthy, famous family that adopts him.
The white shadow, Andrea Eames.
Blending Zimbabwean folklore and the political upheavals of the late 1960s in the story of a Shona boy and his unusual sister. Follow-up to her acclaimed debut, "The cry of the go-away bird."
Manazuru, Hiromi Kawakami
Kei, who was left alone to raise her daughter after her husband disappeared twelve years ago, finds herself drawn to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place where she tries to unlock memories from her past.
Suddenly, a knock on the door, Etgar Keret
Collection of short stories, highly praised, from one of Israel's leading writers.
The paradise bird tattoo, Choukitsu Kurumatani
After leaving his job at an advertising agency, Kkushima flees the city and finds himself in the town of Amagasaki, where his brief encounters with troubled neighbors lead to a contemplation of suicide and eventually a love affair.
Light lifting : stories, Alexander MacLeod.
Short story collection from Canadian author. The Economist loved it, calling it "engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying: each story has the weight of a novel."
The mirage, Naguib Mahfouz
Impressive autobiographical account by the Nobel Laureate novelist about Kamil, a tortured soul who struggles to cope with life's challenges.
Purgatory, Tomas Eloy Martinez
Story of Argentina during the time of the military regime and the mass "disappearances" told through the story of a wife who discovers a man identical to the husband she lost three decades ago.
Restoration, Olaf Olafsson.
Returning home to La Foce, a crumbling villa in Tuscany, to make amends with her husband, Iris is caught between loyalists and resistors, cruel German forces and Allied troops, and, while struggling to survive, hopes that the life and love she lost can one day be restored.
When hoopoes go to heaven, Gaile Parkin.
Follow up to the excellent debut novel "Baking cakes in Kigali." A look at life in Swaziland through the eyes of ten year old Benedict

Korean titles

Pumerang : ichon sibil 2011 Hwang Sun-won munhaksang susang chakpumchip, Yun Song-hui…[et al.]
Sakuk, Bando Masak'o ; Kwon Nam-hui omgim.
Ilkobgaeui koyangi nun, Ch'oe Che-hun.
Ch'aeso kongmul kyon'gwaryu tunoe kansik, Ch'oe Chi-yon chium.
Ch'in'gu wa pada : changp'yon sosol, Chong Chu-sok chium.
Nopun song ui sanae, P'illip K. Tik chium ; Nam Myong-song omgim.
Momentu = The moment = Dogullasu Kenedi changpyon sosol, Cho Tong-sop omgim.
Ino Kongju iyagi : Kim Chong-ho changp'yon sosol, Ho Nam-jun kurim.
Penisu handal salgi = A month in Venice, Kul, sajin Kim Sang-a.
Nae namjachin kuui weding duresu, Kim Un-jong.
Chasan Chongyakchon, Kim Yong-ju.
Sumun bam, Kim Yu-jin.
Saja waui itul pam : Mun Chi-hyok sosolchip, Mun Chi-hyok.
Bukbol : O Se-yong yoksasosol, O Se-yong.
Chonkukui chakun sae = Little bird of heaven, Joisu Kaerol Ochu ; Ko Jong-a omgim.
Chiujon : modu na rul k'al ira haetta, Pak Ae-jin chium.
Hunhan ildul, Sin, Jae-hyong.
Wihom han sosol, Song Su-gyong chium.

Mystery

Cat's claw, Susan Wittig Albert.
Begins a new light mystery series, The Pecan Springs Mystery.
Death of a kingfisher, M.C. Beaton.
When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. Murder spoils the plan.
Downfall, Terri Blackstock.
Third in the "Intervention" series of mysteries that combine a murder plot with a religious factor.
The glass room, Ann Cleeves.
D.I. Vera Stanhope investigates a missing friend and things lead to murder at a writer's retreat. Cleeves has taken off in Britain as some have been filmed for T.V. with Brenda Blethyn.
Never apologise, never explain, James Craig.
A serial killer plagues London, the victims all powerful politicians, and the killer seems to be enacting revenge for what happened back in 1980's Cambridge.
Stirred, J,A. Konrath
Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thinks she's seen it all until she meets depraved villain Luther Kite.
Children of wrath, Paul Grossman.
Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of prosperity. Berlin is deep in the throes of a giddy rush to forget its troubled past. But the same day the stock market crashes in New York, the dark underside of the German capital flushes to the surface.
Available dark, Elizabeth Hand.
Fleeing for her life after she is shown photographs of ritual killings during a mysterious job in Helsinki, Cass Neary encounters a former lover and exiled musician in Iceland only to be inundated by a series of unsolved murders.
Kind of cruel, Sophie Hannah.
Woman with chronic insomnia says things under hypnosis that mean nothing but are connected to the murder of a woman she's never heard of.
When maidens mourn, C.S. Harris.
When Gabrielle Tennyson is murdered, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new reluctant bride, the fiercely independent Hero Jarvis, find themselves involved in an intrigue concerning the myth of King Arthur, Camelot, and a future poet laureate.
Good people, Ewart Hutton.
First novel from playwright introduces D.S. Glyn Capaldi in the story of six men and a young women who hijack a bus one night and then vanish. Five reappear with explanations but they don't ring true. Set in rural Wales.
Murdered by nature, Roderic Jeffries.
Latest with the veteran Spanish detective, Inspector Alvarez.
Hit and run, Doug Johnstone.
Journalist driving home stoned accidentally hits someone and runs then finds he'll be covering the story for the local paper and the dead man was Edinburgh's top crime lord.
Victims, Jonathan Kellerman.
An ingenious, intriguing tale, the latest featuring long running series hero Alex Delaware.
The basement, Stephen Leather.
New York serial killer is murdering women and videoing the proceedings in the usual gruesome stuff from Mr Leather.
Trail of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz.
Fifth in the wacky crime comedy series about an eccentric sleuthing family.
The Lewis man, Peter May.
Fin MacLeod, Edinburgh policeman, has returned to the Hebrides to live and is involved with the case of the murdered man found in a peat bog.
The killing room, Richard Montanari.
Gruesome tale set in Philadelphia where detectives are confronted by corpses in deconsecrated churches across the city.
11th hour, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
Prolific writer's latest, this time in the Women's Murder Club series.
What it was, George Pelecanos.
Washington D.C. 1972 and a former cop turned private eye has a tough case involving a ruthless killer called Red Fury.
Poison flower : a Jane Whitefield novel, Thomas Perry.
Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
The murder of Gonzago, R.T. Raichev.
English aristocrat dies during an amateur production of a play on a privately owned Caribbean island.
The English monster, or, The melancholy transactions of William Ablass, Lloyd Shepherd.
Intriguing debut. Based on a real-life murder investigation in 19th century Wapping, this is first in planned series featuring officer Charles Horton of the newly created Thames River Police Office.
To tell the truth, Anna Smith.
Second thriller featuring journalist Rosie Gilmour (first seen in "The dead won't sleep") has a British girl snatched from a beach in Spain while the family are on holiday.
Restless in the grave, Dana Stabenow.
Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kate's help to clear his wife of the murder of a wealthy aviation entrepreneur.
The ship, Stefan Mani
Winner of Iceland's top mystery fiction prize. A merchant vessel setting off from an Icelandic port on its final voyage runs into sabotage, mutiny, piracy.
The altered case, Peter Turnbull.
A skeleton-filled grave leads DCI Hennessey's team back to the aftermath of the English Civil War and the connection to a present day family.
Night rounds, Helene Tursten
Detective Inspector Irene Huss, former Ju-Jitsu champ, mother, wife and policewoman with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden.
The comedy is finished, Donald E. Westlake.
In 1977, aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents, and veteran of countless USO tours to boost morale, is kidnapped by the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army who want to bring their cause back to life.
The garden intrigue, Lauren Willig.
An atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England. Latest in the Pink Carnation series, mix of history, romance and espionage in 1804 Paris.

New Zealand Fiction

The ideas man, Ian Austin.
British born Auckland writer. The story of a New Yorker whose teenage daughter is stricken with a rare condition and how he is bent on trying for a miracle.
Kezia, Kevin Boon.
Biographical novel about the childhood of Katherine Mansfield, drawing on her short stories.
Furt Bent from Aldaheit, Jack Eden.
Dark tale partly inspired by the Arthur Alan Thomas case and featuring as nasty a policeman as you could imagine, Described as Underbelly meets Shawshank!
The second location, Bronwyn Lloyd.
Influenced by her researches into the relationship between painter Rita Angus and musician Douglas Lilburn, Bronwyn Lloyd allows a disturbing sequence of stories to take shape.
Poison door, Steve Malley.
Gritty Christchurch set thriller featuring a tough cop, a troubled teenager and a vicious drug kingpin.
Crush, Leigh Marsden.
Philippa returns from her O.E. to her small town where she finds men she might be interested in and some she's not.
In the absence of heroes, Anthony McCarten.
Jim and Renata Delpe's life is in a very modern crisis. With their son, Jeff, sending text messages to his dead brother while slipping quickly into internet addiction, and with Renata engaged in a secret internet relationship with a figure she has never actually met, Jim Delpe - who has had 'a love-hate relationship' with computers - is left with no choice but to log in himself, if the family is to be saved.
A better place : a novel of early New Zealand, Enid Meyer.
Greytown in the 1860s with a young wife and her two children arriving to work a rural property and make it a better.
Zhu Mao, Mark Sweet.
In 1984, architect Scott Warren goes to Wudangshan in China on a scholarship to study Daoist buildings, just at the time when liberalisation is occurring and Chinese people have new freedoms. While there, he studies martial arts and makes some important friendships. Twenty-three years later, he returns to the same town, bringing his dead wife's ashes back to China.
Death on demand, Paul Thomas.
Maverick cop Tito Ihaka returns. He has fallen foul of the new regime at Auckland Central but finds himself called back to hunt a shadowy hitman. His enemies want him off the case, but the bodies are piling up…

Romance

Invitation to the prince's palace, Jennie Adams.
Innocent 'til proven otherwise, Amy Andrews.
The boss she can't resist, Lucy Clark.
The cop, the puppy and me, Cara Colter.
The baby who saved Dr Cynical, Connie Cox.
A devilishly dark deal, Maggie Cox.
The end of her innocence, Sara Craven.
An offer she can't refuse, Emma Darcy.
The runaway nurse, Dianne Drake.
Miss Prim and the billionaire, Lucy Gordon.
Dancing with danger, Fiona Harper.
Marriage behind the facade, Lynn Raye Harris.
The Sheikh's undoing, Sharon Kendrick.
Back in the soldier's arms, Soraya Lane.
Lily's scandal, Marion Lennox.
A night of living dangerously, Jennie Lucas.
An indecent proposal, Carol Marinelli.
Who wants to marry a millionaire?, Nicola Marsh.
Secrets of Castillo del Arco, Trish Morey.
The talk of Hollywood, Carole Mortimer.
Back in the lion's den, Elizabeth Power.
The man who risked it all, Michelle Reid.
Zoe's baby, Alison Roberts.
The shameless life of Ruiz Acosta, Susan Stephens.
Forbidden to his touch, Natasha Tate.
Running the storm, Lee Wilkinson.
The secret Sinclair, Cathy Williams.
Hajar's hidden legacy, Maisey Yates.

Saga & Historical

The dressmaker, Kate Alcott.
A spirited woman survives the sinking of the Titanic only to find herself embroiled in the tumultuous aftermath of that great tragedy. Tess is one of the last people to escape into a lifeboat. When an enterprising reporter turns her employer, Lady Duff Gordon, into an object of scorn, Tess is torn between loyalty and the truth.
The sins of the father, Jeffrey Archer.
Follows "Only time will tell" in Jeffrey's "Clifton chronicles."
The O'Briens, Peter Behrens.
A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who after leaving the Canadian wilds and sharing a passionate courtship with Iseult, becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars and the election of JFK.
Three letters, Josephine Cox.
The story of a father's love, a small boy's journey and the desperate search for a place to call home.
Master and God, Lindsey Davis.
AD81. The Roman Emperor Domitian seizes power. Afflicted by classic paranoia, the self-styled Master and God sees enemies everywhere and he is right. The Senate loathes him, his advisers are terrified, he cannot trust his wife and barbarians menace the frontiers. As he vents his suspicions, no one is safe.
The last storyteller, Frank Delaney.
Ireland, 1956. Although Ben MacCarthy wants no part of an upstart insurrection along the northern border, he unknowingly falls in with an IRA sympathizer and is compromised into running guns. Yet despite his perilous circumstances, all he can think about is finding his former wife and true love, the actress Venetia Kelly.
Hold on to hope, Jean Fullerton.
19th century East End saga about a married woman who falls for a former army captain.
A searing wind, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.
Third in the series "Contact: the battle for America."
Enchantments, Kathryn Harrison.
When Rasputin is murdered during the last days of Czarist Russia his two daughters are left in the care of the doomed royal family.
Spartacus : the gladiator, Ben Kane.
The first of an epic novel series about the gladiator slave who rose to challenge the might of Rome.
The queen's secret, Victoria Lamb.
The first in a planned series featuring Elizabeth I's court favourite Lucy Morgan.
Purple roads, Fleur McDonald.
Young couple mortgage themselves to buy a farm. With a gutsy inspirational heroine and a story of family, from the author of "Blue skies".
The shadow prince, Terence Morgan.
Based on the story of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower.
The promise, Lesley Pearse.
London, 1914. Belle Reilly finally has the life she's dreamed of thanks to a devoted husband in Jimmy and the hat shop she's wanted to own since she was a child. But as the storm clouds of World War One begin to gather, Belle's already turbulent life is to change in ways she never imagined possible.
Chasing the sun, Tracie Peterson.
Begins a new historical romance series, "Land of the lone star," set in Texas.
The house I loved, Tatiana de Rosnay.
From the author of the bestseller (successfully filmed) "Sarah's key." The story of one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its core - Paris in the 1860s.
Betrayal, Danielle Steel.
Two girls and three boys - all with looks and talent - meet as schoolchildren and when their lives diverge later things change for better and worse.
Hawke's tor, E.V. Thompson.
19th century Cornwall where the murder of a young wife may be linked to a mystery held by a young gypsy girl.
Paint on the smiles, Grace Thompson.
During the tough times of World War I two sisters who run a successful shop are thwarted by a difficult family member.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Juggernaut, Adam Baker.
Iraq 2005 and seven mercenaries journey deep into the desert in search of Saddam's gold. They soon find themsleves caught ina desperate battle to survive with an army that won't stay dead!
Fair game, Patricia Briggs.
In her Alpha and Omega series set in a world of shapeshifting and werewolves.
Arctic rising, Tobias S. Buckell.
Global warming has transformed Earth and it's getting hotter. The Gaia Corporation think they can solve it and create a superwoman but things get rough when the Corporation loses control of its weapon.
Intruder, C.J. Cherryh.
Latest in the "Foreigner" series of science fiction tales.
Templar one, Tony Gonzales.
Second in a series where technology is downloaded into the consciousness of pilots. A tale of interstellar war and high-tech combat.
A perfect blood, Kim Harrison.
When she discovers that a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons and needs her blood, former witch-turned-day-walking-demon Rachel Morgan, a bounty hunter, faces her toughest adversary yet humanity.
City of dragons, Robin Hobb.
Accompanied by human keepers, the dragons embark on a dangerous journey to their ancient, mythical homeland of Kelsingera, and along the way form deep bonds with the humans that are severely tested during the journey's final days. Volume 3 of Rain Wilds Chronicles fantasy series.
From the deep of the dark, Stephen Hunt.
Sixth tale of high adventure/fantasy from top steampunk author, set in the world of The Court of the Air.
77 Shadow Street, Dean Koontz.
Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse - and was rumored to be more than half mad - after his wife and two children were kidnapped in 1896 and never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when his house manager murdered him, his family, and the entire live-in staff… For years, the Pendleton is a happy place, until a bad turn comes again…
Emperor Mollusk versus the sinister brain, A. Lee Martinez.
Emperor Mollusk, ex-warlord of Earth, comes out of retirement to save the planet from the sinister brain's control. A mix of fantasy and comedy.
Echoes of betrayal, Elizabeth Moon.
Third in the fantasy series, "Paladin's legacy."
Raven calls, C.E. Murphy.
Joanne goes to Ireland a slips through time in this fantasy tale of werewolves, magic and dark powers.
The wolf gift, Anne Rice.
A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf. Anne abandons religion for werewolves.
A rising thunder, David Weber.
Latest space opera featuring Honor Harrington and company.