Sneak Previews Spring 2008

Here's a look at what's coming from your favorite authors this spring. Registered library card holders may call the library at (586) 469-6200 to place holds on these forthcoming titles. When you place your hold in advance, you help your librarians decide how many copies of a popular title will be needed to meet demand. Registered library card holders may also place their own holds by visiting our online library catalog (you will need your library card number and PIN to use this feature).

Andrews, V.C. Secrets in the Shadows.  (coming in May)
In this sequel to Secrets in the Attic, Alice has been sent to live with her aunt.  Mysteries surrounding Alice's past will be revealed in frightening details when Alice visits her murderer mother in a mental institution.

Bohjalian, Chris.  Skeletons at the Feast. (May)
During the final months of World War II, a small group of people make their way westward across a ravaged Europe in a desperate attempt to reach Britain and American lines.

Buffett, Jimmy.  Swine Not?  (May)
Moving their beloved pet pig from their Tennessee hometown to their new home in a posh no-pets-allowed New York City hotel, southern belle Ellie McBride and her twin children struggle to hide the swine from the hotel staff, including an ultra-carnivorous hotel chef.

Collins, Jackie.  Married Lovers.   (June)
After fleeing an abusive boyfriend, Cameron Paradise plans a job in L.A. Married independent movie producer, Ryan Lambert, finds Cameron a breath of fresh air.  Murder results when lust and desire collide.

Deaver, Jeffery. Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel.  (June)
Criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is back!  They are investigating the mysterious "522" who commits vicious crimes and then plants evidence that implicates innocent men.  As Lincoln and Amelia work the case the tables are turned and they find themselves becoming the hunted ones.

Evanovich, Janet. Fearless Fourteen.  (June)
Stephanie Plum is back. It's non-stop action, comic mayhem, hot sexual tension, plenty of junk food, exploding cars, pot roast with the Plum family, and a viewing at the Burg's premier funeral home.

Hamilton, Laurell K. Blood Noir.   (May)
Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds herself at the center of a full-blown scandal when she tires to do a favor for Jason, her werewolf lover.  It not only threatens master vampire Jean-Claude's reign, but makes Anita a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power.

Koontz, Dean R. Odd Hours.  (May)
A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead.  Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas's gifts filtered far beyond the town of Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friends - an enemies - of implacable evil.  With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the world -- not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas.

Macomber, Debbie. Twenty Wishes.  (May)
Macomber returns to Seattle's fictional Blossom Street of A Good Yarn (and others) for a hopeful tale of four widows who meet at 38-year-old Anne Marie Roche's bookstore.

Meyer, Stephanie. The Host.   (May)
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away.  The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knows about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories.  But there is one difficulty Wanderer doesn't expect - the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

Patterson, James. Sail.   (June)
Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way.  In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again.  But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong.  The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself.  The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic.  This is the worst vacation ever.  Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens.  Survival may be the least of their concerns. Written with the blistering pace an shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, Sail takes Lost and Survivor to a new level of terror.

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