Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade show and affiliated conferences.
Author: Ilsa J. Bick
Genre: Horror, [...]
Title: The Company Man
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Steampunk, Noir, Mystery
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: April 2011
Paperback: 464 Pages
The year is 1919.
The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships [...]
Title: Triangle
Author: Katharine Weber
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: May 2007
Paperback: 256 Pages
By the time she dies at age 106, Esther Gottesfeld, the last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, has told the story of that day many times. But her own role remains mysterious: How did she [...]
Title: The Space Between Trees
Author: Katie Williams
Genre: Contemporary YA/ Mystery
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Hardcover: 280 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
This story was supposed to be about Evie–how she hadn’t made a friend in years; how she tends to [...]
Book Review: The Body at the Tower by Y.S. Lee
Author: Y.S. Lee
Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Victorian
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication Date: August 2010
Hardcover: 352 Pages
Orphan Mary Quinn works for the Agency, a secret spy organization run by and employing entirely woman. Her latest assignment [...]
Author: Mark Charan Newton
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Tor UK
Publication Date: 4 Jun 2010
Hardcover: 400 pages
Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for [...]
Title: The Prince of Mist
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Genre: YA/Horror
Publisher:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (US) /Orion Children’s (UK)
Publication Date: May 2010
Hardcover: 224 pages/208 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
[...]
Wherever Nina Lies is the debut novel from the young and extremely talented Lynn Weingarten. In order to celebrate the paperback release of the novel, we are offering up a giveaway for THREE lucky readers!
The Book:
Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery
Publisher: [...]
“Inspiration and Influences” is a new series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspiration and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or [...]
Title: Prospero Lost
Author: L. Jagi Lamplighter
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: August 2009
Hardcover: 352 pages
Why did we read this book: We had seen glowing reviews for Ms. Lamplighter’s debut effort all over the blogosphere – but it was Graeme of Graeme’s [...]
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