New book releases this week from: Amanda Quick, Leonard Mlodinow, Vincent Lam, Stephen King and Neal Stephenson & Greg Bear & Mark Teppo.
Crystal Gardens
Author: Amanda Quick
Country: United States, Canada
Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Romance
Publisher: Putnam
Publication date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 352
Psychic novelist, Evangeline Ames meets psychic social outcast, Lucas Sebastian while renting a country cottage. The two quickly realize they share a common enemy as the dangerous energy emanating from Crystal Gardens grows stronger. This is the first novel in the Ladies of Lantern Street novel series.
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Author: Leonard Mlodinow
Country: United States, Canada
Genre(s): Organizational Behavior, Psychology
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 272
Physicist Mlodinow takes a look at some of the mysteries of the unconscious mind. He samples anecdotes from the 19th century to the present day and explores the behaviors humans exhibit without being aware of what they are doing.
The Headmaster’s Wager
Author: Vincent Lam
Country: Canada
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Publication date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 400
Set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War, The Headmaster’s Wager follows the story of Percival Chen. He is headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. Chen completely ignores all news of the fighting around him, and focuses on reading the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. That is, until his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities.
The Mongoliad: Book One
Author: Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo
Country: United States, Canada
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: 47North
Publication date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 256
This is the first book in The Foreworld Saga series about a small band of warriors and mystics who desperately rally to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. The Mongoliad: Book One is a fusion of historical events and gripping narrative fiction.
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Author: Stephen King
Country: United States, Canada
Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 320
Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower series with The Wind Through the Keyhole. However, this doesn’t pick up where The Dark Tower (2004), the seventh book in the series left off. Instead King pulls at a seam from earlier books fitting this somewhere between Wizard and Glass (1997) and Wolves of the Calla (2003). New readers to the series can actually start here, as this novel can be understood as a stand-alone. Either way, it’s a fantastic tale of gunslinger meets knight.
