77 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out October 5 - 18, 2021
In this double-edition of New & Hot, we’re loading up 2 weeks’ worth of new releases to help get you ready for this jam-packed release season and make sure you’ve got all your pre-orders in before (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend.
We’re also doing a lightning round-style highlights section to pack in even more notices of can’t-miss books.
Onetime presidential candidate and former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has co-authored State of Terror, a thriller with her friend Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny. It’s about a series of terrorist attacks and the Secretary of State trying to untangle the conspiracy behind them.
Speaking of thrillers with surprising authors, Cmdr. Chris Hadfield’s The Apollo Murders is set in 1973 where a top-secret lunar mission turns out to have been infiltrated by the Soviets: but which of the 3 men in the capsule is the double-agent?
And beloved spy novelist John LeCarré’s final novel, Silverview, is a suitably reflective work from the master of the genre.
James Patterson has 2 books out: 2 Sisters Detective Agency is (allegedly) a standalone novel co-authored with Candice Fox. Time will tell if they can stop themselves from writing a sequel. Patterson’s other book is a work of non-fiction: E. R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes (co-authored by Matt Eversmann, who previously worked with Patterson on Walk in my Combat Boots: True Stories from America’s Bravest Warriors) is a collection of stories from nurses throughout the US.
Unmanageable: Leadership Lessons from an Impossible Year by Melissa Nightingale and Johnathan Nightingale collects the duo’s writing on management that they’ve been publishing on their popular blog. This collection is specifically focused on the challenges of managing through the COVID-19 crisis, as well as how managers need to change in order to land gracefully on the other side of the pandemic.
Aja Barber’s Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism exposes the brutal underbelly of the fashion industry as one particularly horrendous area of damaging consumerism, and then flips the discussion over to why we even feel the need to buy so much stuff in the first place.
See also: Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh’s Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet.
Sonya Lalli’s Holly Jolly Diwali is a) delightful to say, and b) a very cute romance taking place between Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights coming up soon, and Christmas morning. [Check out this list of some of Sonya's favourite South Asian rom-coms: 2021’s best romances by South Asian authors | Kobo Blog]
Crossroads is Jonathan Franzen’s first novel in almost a decade. We're being told it’s the first in a trilogy, so hopefully we’ll see a lot more from Franzen soon.
Amor Towles, author of A Gentleman in Moscow is a literary novelist who’s never left his readership waiting: The Lincoln Highway is his third novel, a story set on the highways of 1950s America.
Readers who fell in love with Aristotle and Dante, of Benjamin Alire Sáenz’ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe can begin the next chapter of their love affair with Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World.
The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates by the late radio broadcaster Stuart McLean collects 10 of his most beloved stories and 10 stories that haven’t previously been published. Though we don’t get an audiobook performance to go with it, readers are sure to have his droll voice in mind when they pick up the new collection.
More books coming out October 5 - 18, 2021
💭 Big Ideas
- The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer by Rodney Habib
- Where Do We Go from Here? How Tomorrow’s Prophecies Foreshadow Today’s Problems by Dr. David Jeremiah
- The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Unmanageable: Leadership Lessons from an Impossible Year by Johnathan Nightingale and Melissa Nightingale
- Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber
- The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
- Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It by Evan F. Moore and Jashvina Shah
- Well Seasoned: A Year's Worth of Delicious Recipes by Mary Berg
- Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith
- Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace by Minda Harts
- Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle by Danté Stewart
- On Animals by Susan Orlean
- On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
🗣 True Stories
- The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
- Off the Record by Peter Mansbridge
- The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard
- E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
- I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham
- Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
- A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris
💘 Romance
- The Butler by Danielle Steel
- Temptation After Dark by Marie Force
- Hold On To My Heart (Maine Sullivans) by Bella Andre
- Quinn's Quest by Dale Mayer
- Just One Chance by Carly Phillips
- Broken Sparrow by Chelle Bliss
- Christmas Kisses by Cheryl Bolen
- An Irish Country Yuletide by Patrick Taylor
- Mafia Queen by CD Reiss
- Dark Alpha's Need by Donna Grant
- Rebel Yule (A Rookie Rebels Novella) by Kate Meader
- A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
- The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo
🗡️ Crime, Action, and Mystery
- State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
- Lying Ways by Rachel Lynch
- First Girl to Die by Helen Phifer
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- Foul Play by Stuart Woods
- God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen
- The Lost Boy by Rachel Amphlett
- 2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson and Candice Fox
- Silverview by John le Carré
- When All Hell Broke Loose by William W. Johnstone
- All That Is Secret by Patricia Raybon
- Reprieve by James Han Mattsson
🖊️ Literary Fiction
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
- Three Sisters by Heather Morris
- Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates by Stuart McLean
- The Officer Girl in Blue by Fenella J. Miller
- Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
- Dog Park by Sofi Oksanen
- Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different by Douglas Coupland
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
- Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
✨ Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
- A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong
- Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco
- Booked for Kidnapping by R.J. Blain
- The Wicche Glass Tavern by Seana Kelly
- Saving Time by Jodi Taylor
- Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
- The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
- Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds
- All Our Tomorrows by G. S. Jennsen
- Thronebreakers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
- Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Quantum War by Derek Künsken
- United States Of Apocalypse 3: Divided Nation by Mark Tufo
- Dark Avengers: The Patriot List by David Guymer
- Sins & Science by Natasha Tremblay
- The Björkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson
- When Night Breaks by Janella Angeles
- Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
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