Get the latest bestsellers as soon as they hit the stands without wading through the holiday crowds. The Queens Library provides the newest releases as they happen, from Dean Koontz to Danielle Steel, fiction and nonfiction. Visit your local branch or www.queenslibrary.org to request any of the following:
House of the Rising Sun
By James Lee Burke
ISBN-13: 9781501107108
Street Date*: December 1, 2015
This epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution follows the journey of Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland as he tries to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army, and how an encounter with the legendary Holy Grail changes their lives forever.
Precious Gifts
By Danielle Steel
ISBN-13: 9780345531032
Street Date*: December 1, 2015
This deeply moving exploration of loss, inheritance, and a man’s last wish to make a difference–and the loved ones he leaves behind–takes readers from New York and Los Angeles to the art capitals of Europe and the South of France. Bursting with indelible characters and emotional complexity, this inspiring and uplifting novel is Danielle Steel at the height of her literary prowess.
Tom Clancy Commander in Chief
By Mark Greaney
ISBN-13: 9780399176760
Street Date*: December 1, 2015
President Jack Ryan is back facing the schemes of a Russian president willing to set in motion machinations that will unleash chaos around the globe in order to return the former Soviet Socialist Republic to its former glory. With five thousand Russian troops poised to invade a NATO nation, can Jack Ryan move swiftly enough to stop this grand plan of global conflict and conquest?
Operation Thunderbolt
By Saul David
ISBN-13: 9780316245418
Street Date*: December 1, 2015
The greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly comes to life in Simon Sebag Montefiore’s riveting exploration of the July 3, 1976, daring raid by Israeli Special Forces to free more than a hundred Israeli, French and US hostages held by German and Palestinian terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
The Age of Reinvention
By Karine Tuil
ISBN-13: 9781476776347
Street Date*: December 1, 2015
An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham.
Secret Sisters
By Jayne Ann Krentz
ISBN-13: 9780399174483
Street Date*: December 8, 2015
New York Times bestselling author of Trust No One and River Road, Jayne Ann Krentz, delivers a novel that will leave you breathless. Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters–until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves!
Ashley Bell
By Dean Koontz
ISBN-13: 9780345545961
Street Date*: December 8, 2015
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes this dark psychological suspense thriller, brilliantly paced, with an exhilarating heroine and a twisting, ingenious storyline. Who is Ashley Bell? Who indeed?!
The Bone Labyrinth
By James Rollins
ISBN-13: 9780062381644
Street Date*: December 15, 2015
Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force return to unravel the mystery behind a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries in the remote mountains of Croatia and the bones of a Neanderthal woman discovered within; a mystery that will plunge the team into a cataclysmic battle for the future of humanity . . . and beyond. Only this time, Sigma will falter–and the world will change forever.
The Forgotten Soldier
By Brad Taylor
ISBN-13: 9780525954910
Street Date*: December 29, 2015
In New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor’s latest heart-stopping thriller Pike Logan returns with his most dangerous and personal threat yet: a Taskforce Operator gone rogue, out to avenge his brother, a Taskforce member killed on an operation in Afghanistan.
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
By Natasha Solomons
ISBN-13: 9780147517593
Street Date*: December 29, 2015
Tyneford Natasha Solomons’s breathtaking new novel has it all: a love triangle, family obligations and rediscovering joy in the face of grief, all set against the alluring backdrop of an English country estate. The perfect read for fans of Downton Abbey.
*Street dates can be subject to change depending upon the book’s publisher.
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