12/6/2023 0 Comments Aquarium dreamsAs heroine Jazzy approaches 27, she decides that it’s time for her and best partying girlfriends Sher, Imo, and Fann to nab rich ang moh (Western expat) husbands. WOMEN’S FICTION The most striking thing about this debut novel from the author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family and editor of Singapore Noir is the language: it’s written in Singlish, a brightly slangy English used in Singapore that blends in words from Malay, Mandarin, Indian, Fukienese, and Cantonese. Protagonist Lily, kidnapped as a teenager, has endured eight years in her basement prison when the deadbolt is thrown and she is able to walk out with her young daughter. PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER An executive TV writer on ABC Family's upcoming Shadowhunters, based on Cassandra Clare’s best-selling “Mortal Instruments” series, turns in a first chiller that went to auction in both the United States and the UK and has been sold to a half-dozen other countries. Look for her at BookExpo America, surviving the convention floor. Having put herself through several wilderness survival courses, Oliva knows what it’s like out there. She senses that the real world itself has been creepily altered, so she must figure out the game being played even as she struggles against the elements. THRILLER Deep in a New England forest, 12 contestants demonstrate their survival skills in a death-defying new reality TV show, but main protagonist Zoo is feeling especially anxious. While in Haiti, he met the man whose story inspired this book. Then comes the terrible 2010 earthquake, which Miller saw firsthand as a volunteer EMT. But Anaya's upper-crust father wants her to marry the doctor he’s handpicked for her. LITERARY An orphan in a Haitian fishing village, the brave, handsome, and independent-minded Zwazo Delalun (called Zo) passionately loves Anaya-and he would seem like ideal son-in-law material. But is she ready for civilization? Comic Con promotion and an NPR campaign. He’s taught her key survival skills like setting snares and starting fires, skills she will need when she learns that he is in fact a serial killer and makes a run for it. PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Managing editor at Titan Books in London, Lewis sets her first novel in the postapocalyptic wilds, where Elka lives with the man she has called Daddy since he found her stumbling through the woods at age seven. Hatton will get the details right, having worked summers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Steinbeck appears, too. Meanwhile, her father seeks Ricketts’s advice on his next dream project: a huge aquarium. Assistant to her sometimes wacky entrepreneur father, Margot becomes interested in the studies done by of biologist Ed Ricketts (called Doc in Steinbeck’s work) and begins working for him as a sketch artist. LITERARY/HISTORICAL Hatton portrays the creation of the renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium and the simultaneous destruction of Cannery Row, depicted in John Steinbeck’s eponymous classic, through the story of 15-year-old Margot Fiske. Her husband, a small-town high school football coach named Dean, has his hands full with confused eight-year-old Bry 11-year-old Robbie, who’s acting out and Stephanie, trying to be a cool college student while feeling responsible for her family. LITERARY A staff writer for the celebrated literary blog The Millions whose short fiction has appeared in venues like the Southern Review and Granta, Gersen portrays a family torn asunder by a troubled wife’s suicide. The publisher emphasizes that Pepper’s wily cardsharp wife, Moira, plays a significant role, making this more than a guy’s book. But what’s really expected of him is very different, as he’s led into a dark and dangerous world. $27.LITERARY/HISTORICAL Sportswriter Dundas crafts the story of disgraced former lightweight wrestling champion Pepper Van Dean, who’s working the carnival circuit with his wife in the 1920s when he gets a chance at redemption: he's asked to train African American heavyweight Garfield Taft, who’s looking for a comeback. Lots of in-house love look for library marketing. Then tragedy strikes, tying her closely to the children. Playwright and director Angell crafts the story of a talented young composer taking a break from the cutthroat world of musicians by nannying for an Upper East Side Manhattan family. CD: Macmillan Audio POP FICTION Yet another theater person demonstrates that those who love the spoken word gravitate naturally to the written word.
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