Many readers pack up their Kindles and Nooks right after Christmas, usually with the biggest titles released in the pre-Christmas time.
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The selection of titles published at the beginning of the year is usually much smaller, and there are fewer books from well-known authors, but it doesn’t mean you can’t find any.
The beginning of 2016 will bring the new book from Yann Martel, the author of Life of Pi. The High Mountains of Portugal is a story of a quest for a lost relic – from Africa in the 1600s through Portugal at the turn of the last century to contemporary North America.
On February 9, a new book by Jean Stein will be released. West of Eden is an epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles, the city of her childhood.
If you like fantasy, you should check out A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab.
As usual, we show the books available for pre-order, with short descriptions, release dates, and links to four major ebookstores: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks Store.
So, which of the titles presented below are you going to download to your e-reader or book reading app?
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12 sure-fire ebook bestsellers – winter 2016
Mastered
Maya Banks
The No. 1 New York Times bestselling author turns it up in Mastered, the explosive first book in a new series of a desire too dangerous to resist.
“She stood out in his club like a gem, unspoiled and untouched. A lamb among wolves, she clearly didn’t belong. Drawn to her innocence, he watched as she was surrounded by men who saw what he did — but no one but him could touch her. He summoned her to his private quarters. He sensed her fear. He also recognized the desire in her eyes. And he knew she wouldn’t leave before he possessed her. She had no need to know his secrets. Not until he had her under his complete and utter control.”
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Out of Sorts
Aurélie Valognes
Ferdinand Brun hasn’t always been a grumpy old man. Many years ago, he was a grumpy young man. Now he’d much rather spend time with his canine companion, Daisy, than any of his nosy neighbors.
But as his behavior becomes increasingly peculiar, his daughter grows concerned and begins to consider moving him into a retirement home.
In order to maintain his freedom, Ferdinand must submit to an apartment inspection by his longtime enemy, the iron-fisted concierge, Mrs. Suarez. Unfortunately, he’s never tidied up a day in his life. His neighbors, precocious ten-year-old Juliette, and vivacious ninety-two-year-old Beatrice, come to the rescue.
The Girl in the Red Coat
Roma Ligocka
When she first saw Schindler’s List, Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt that the little girl in the red coat – the only spot of color in the film – was her.
From a harrowing childhood under the Nazis, described with a simplicity and innocence that lends it even greater power, through the trials of living in Communist Poland, to a career in the theater and film (an artistic struggle paralleling that of her cousin, Roman Polanski), Ligocka traces her struggle for self-definition and happiness.
The Girl in the Red Coat is a courageous and moving story of survival and triumph.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Blue
Danielle Steel
Blue is an emotionally gripping story of dark secrets revealed, second chances, and the power of love and courage to overcome life’s greatest challenges.
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life – until her whole world dissolved on a freeway in a single instant.
In the aftermath, she somehow pieces her life back together, but struggles to truly find meaning in her existence.
Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident, she meets a boy who will cause her life to change forever yet again…
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The High Mountains of Portugal
Yann Martel
From the author of Life of Pi comes the story of a quest for a lost relic. The journey takes us from Africa in the 1600s through Portugal at the turn of the last century to contemporary North America.
Showcasing Martel’s trademark delight in the fundamental stories that unite us, the novel unfolds with a dazzling lightness of touch. With its intricately woven layers of meaning and all the pleasures and surprises of a good yarn, it is also a beautiful, tender, clear-eyed and heartfelt exploration of love, suffering, faith and evolution.
By turns funny, tragic and sublime, The High Mountains of Portugal reminds us that it is our ability to weave remarkable stories out of our spiritual and philosophical concerns that makes us – and keeps us – human.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
West of Eden
Jean Stein
An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie.
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton.
Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief.
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Hidden Bodies
Caroline Kepnes
In the most anticipated follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes tells a story that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.”
Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him.
Hidden Bodies marks the return of a voice that Stephen King described as original and hypnotic.
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A Gathering of Shadows
V.E. Schwab
From the bestselling author of Vicious comes a new novel, described by Publishers Weekly: “This is how fantasy should be done.”
Kell is plagued by his guilt. Restless, and having given up smuggling, he is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila.
As Red London prepares for the Element Games – an extravagant international competition of magic – a certain pirate ship draws closer. But another London is coming back to life, a shadow that was gone in the night reappears in the morning. Black London has risen again – and so to keep magic’s balance, another London must fall.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Cometh the Hour (The Clifton Chronicles Book 6)
Jeffrey Archer
Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels – all of which hit the New York Times bestseller list – showcases Jeffrey Archer’s extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.
The book opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.
Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy?
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
America’s First Daughter
Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
In a compelling, richly researched novel, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph.
From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter, she becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion.
Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father’s reputation, in the process defining not just his political legacy, but that of the nation he founded.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
The Nest
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
A wickedly smart, funny and deeply felt debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of their long depended-upon family inheritance.
On a wintry afternoon in New York City, Melody, Beatrice and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, who has just been released from rehab.
Can Leo get the Plumbs out of this mess, as he’s always been able to do for himself before? Or will the Plumb siblings have to do without the money and the future lives they’ve envisioned?
Tender, funny and deftly written, The Nest explores what money does to relationships.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
Fool Me Once
Harlan Coben
The No. 1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben delivers his next impossible-to-put-down thriller.
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe — who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier.
The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to?
To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband — and herself.
⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo ⇢ iBooks
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