Steve Jobs - Biography, Nonfiction
Simon & Schuster | 9781451648539 | Published October 24, 2011
Based on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years, Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing.
A Christmas Homecoming - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Ballantine Books | 9780345524638 | Published October 25, 2011
A familiar face from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels --- Charlotte’s mother, Caroline --- travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational novel named after him.
A Crimson Warning: A Lady Emily Mystery - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Minotaur Books | 9780312661755 | Published October 25, 2011
Secrets prove deadly in this new novel from Tasha Alexander featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves. Some very prominent people in London are waking up to find their doorsteps smeared with red paint, the precursor to the revelation of a dark secret --- and worse --- by someone who enjoys destroying lives.
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America - History, Nonfiction
Simon & Schuster | 9781439157183 | Published October 25, 2011
AMERICAN EMPEROR traces Aaron Burr from the threshold of the presidency in the contested election of 1800, through his duel with Alexander Hamilton, and then across the American West as he schemed with foreign ambassadors, the traitorous general-in-chief of the army, and future presidents, including Andrew Jackson.
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson - Essays, Nonfiction
Simon & Schuster | 9781439165959 | Published October 25, 2011
This is a definitive, hand-picked selection of Hunter S. Thompson's finest pieces ever published in Rolling Stone --- the magazine that helped to put him on the map in the 1970s.
Jerusalem: The Biography - History, Nonfiction
Knopf | 9780307266514 | Published October 25, 2011
Simon Sebag Montefiore has written an intimate and unprecedented history of Jerusalem, recounted through the lives of the men and women who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about and believed in the Holy City through the millennia.
The Christmas Note - Fiction, Holiday
St. Martin's Press | 9780312658960 | Published October 25, 2011
From the author of The Christmas Hope series comes a new inspirational novel about an unlikely friendship between two women, but one that will change each of their lives forever.
The Litigators - Fiction, Thriller
Doubleday | 9780385535137 | Published October 25, 2011
With their new associate on board --- a young but already burned-out attorney who walked away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm --- the “boutique law firm” of Finley & Figg is ready to tackle a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law.
The Night Eternal: Book Three of the Strain Trilogy - Fiction, Horror
William Morrow | 9780061558269 | Published October 25, 2011
THE NIGHT ETERNAL is the conclusion to Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan's much-talked-about vampire trilogy. As the final battle dawns, the group’s only hope is the intervention of an unexpected race of beings --- avenging “angels” --- who arrive to help them defeat the vampires and reclaim the planet for humanity.
Tides of War - Fiction, Historical Fiction
Henry Holt and Co. | 9780805094572 | Published October 25, 2011
Harriet and James's interwoven stories of love and betrayal propel this novel as it moves between Regency London on the cusp of modernity --- a city in love with science, the machine, money --- and the shocking violence of war in Spain.
When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of the Sunshine State - Fiction
William Morrow | 9780062092847 | Published October 25, 2011
Tim Dorsey offers the perfect antidote for all those sappy feel-good holiday stories with this zany blockbuster extravaganza in which his wonderfully deranged serial killer Floridaphile delivers his special brand of Christmas cheer.
City of Whispers: A Sharon McCone Mystery - Fiction, Mystery
Grand Central Publishing | 9780446573337 | Published October 26, 2011
Private eye Sharon McCone receives an e-mail asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half brother Darcy Blackhawk. Sensing he's in terrible danger, Sharon begins a search for him throughout the city.
Goodnight iPad: A Parody for the Next Generation - Children's
Penguin | 9780399158568 | Published October 27, 2011
Zero Day - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Grand Central Publishing | 9780446573016 | Published October 31, 2011
John Puller is a combat vet and new the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. He is called out on a case in a remote, rural area far from any military outpost and finds that he is truly one man against an overwhelming force.
source: BookReporter.com
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