Books Coming Out WK 20.11.23
New Books Publishing Week of 20 November 2023
Welcome to the first post of new book releases. Every Monday I go over a list of new titles released that week. There might not always be coverage of every genre but I do try to get a good mix. As a mostly Fantasy and Sci-Fi reader myself, you might find those have more entries each week. If there are any new titles you are excited about that I don’t mention feel free to let us know in the comments section.
A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Pirates
Description:
In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for herself, Hannah must hunt down the treasure and change the tides.
Meanwhile, Professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah’s story together in 1930, seeing her own lack of freedom reflected back at her as she watches Hannah's transformation. At the center of Hannah Masury’s account, however, lies a centuries-old mystery that Marian is determined to solve, just as Hannah may have been determined to take it to her grave.
Rubber Duck Races
by Kayley Adams
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Poetry, Story Story Collection, Literary Fiction
Description:
A collection of poetry about the challenges we all face. Love, heartache, never-ending chases, and rubber duck races.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble
Fantasy Books -
The Endless War
Publication Date: November 23, 2023
Subjects: Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Romance, Paranormal Romance
Series: The Bridge Kingdom
Proceeded By: The Inadequate Heir
Description:
Newly crowned as king, Keris has watched powerless as his forbidden relationship with Zarrah is revealed. But when Zarrah is imprisoned by the Empress, Keris knows there is only one way to save her: to ally with the kingdom he nearly destroyed.
Imprisoned on the dreaded Devil's Island, Zarrah faces two choices: prove her loyalty to the Empress who condemned her, or die a traitor. Yet as she struggles to survive among violent prisoners, Zarrah uncovers a third path: a rebellion to overthrow tyranny entwined with a destiny she must fight to claim.
While the Empress plots a war with devastating consequences, Keris and Zarrah must find their way back to each other. Yet their greatest adversary is the fiery passion between them. Unless they overcome the bitterness of betrayal, their love will not be the bringer of peace but rather the fuel that turns the Endless War into an inferno.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Saevus Corax Captures the Castle
by K. J. Parker
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Middle Ages
Series: The Corax trilogy
Proceeded By: Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead
Description:
It’s important to look after your crew when you’re in the battlefield salvage business. It’s stressful work at the best of times, and although your employees are unlikely to be happy it makes sense to keep them alive.
So when Saevus Corax finds himself having to capture a castle to stop his men from being killed, he has no choice but to give it a try. Needless to say, the conventional rules of siegecraft are unlikely to be followed.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Warrior of the Wind
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Adventure Fantasy
Series: The Nameless Republic
Proceeded By: Son of the Storm
Description:
There is no peace in the season of the Red Emperor.
Traumatized by their escape from Bassa, Lilong and Danso have found safety in a vagabond colony on the edge of the emperor’s control. But time is running out on their refuge. A new bounty makes every person a threat, and whispers of magic have roused those eager for their own power.
Lilong is determined to return the Diwi—the ibor heirloom—to her people. It’s the only way to keep it safe from Esheme’s insatiable desire. The journey home will be long, filled with twists and treachery, unexpected allies and fabled enemies.
But surviving the journey is the least of their problems.
Something ancient and uncontrollable awakens. Trouble heads for Bassa, and the continent of Oon will need more than ibor to fix what's coming.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Sci-Fi Books -
The Ice Orphan
Publication Date: November 24, 2023
Subjects: Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, High Tech and Hard Science Fiction
Series: The Rewilding Report
Proceeded By: The Ice Ghost
Description:
It’s been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world’s ocean and unwittingly triggered an ice age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last ice age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they have to save them is a dying quantum computer called Quancee and her student, a Denisovan man named Lynx.
When the last Jemen, Vice Admiral Jorgenson, tells Lynx he’s going to dismantle Quancee and use her parts to create a new computer, Lynx is stunned. But while Lynx battles to save Quancee, the quantum computer has other priorities. Before she dies, she has to save a special boy who cannot save himself.
Meanwhile, in the lodges of the Sealion People, a sick boy on the verge of manhood hears voices, including an old woman who sings to him. When Jawbone goes on his first quest to find a spirit helper, that same old woman finds him, and his life will never be the same.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
YA Books -
Defiant
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Science Fiction, Teen fiction, Aliens, Teens & YA, Science Fiction - Teen Fiction, Girls & Young Women
Series: Skyward
Proceeded By: Cytonic
Description:
The epic conclusion to Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward series, his second massive series in the speculative YA space. All those burning questions from the first three books will be answered. What are you waiting for?
Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers and finally got answers to the questions she had about her own strange Cytonic gifts.
The Superiority didn't stop in its fight for galactic dominance while she was gone, though. Spensa's team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off, and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it's only a matter of time until humanity—and the rest of the galaxy—falls.
Defeating them will require all the knowledge Spensa gathered while in the Nowhere. But being Cytonic is more complicated than she ever could have imagined. Now, Spensa must ask herself: how far is she willing to go for victory, if it means losing herself—and her friends—in the process?
Purchase Options: Amazon or Penguin Random House
Romance Books -
Inheritance
by Nora Roberts
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Paranormal Contemporary Romance, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Romance
Series: The Lost Bride Trilogy
Description:
1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him…
Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about—and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth—and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light.
Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor, notes Sonya’s unease—and acknowledges that yes, the place is haunted…but just a little. Sure enough, Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle’s office, and a portrait of a woman named Astrid, whom the lawyer refers to as “the first lost bride.” It’s becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it…
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Horror Books -
Mister Lullaby
by J. H. Markert
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Horror, Fiction
Description:
The small town of Harrod’s Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy Sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel’s entrance, each left with strange calling cards inscribed with old lullabies. Soon after, Sully Dupree briefly awakens from his coma.
Before falling back into his slumber, Sully manages to give his older brother a message. Sully's mind, since the accident, has been imprisoned on the other side of the tunnel in Lalaland, a grotesque and unfamiliar world inhabited by evil mythical creatures of sleep. Sully is trapped there with hundreds of other coma patients, all desperately fighting to keep the evils of the dream world from escaping into the waking world.
Elsewhere, a man troubled by his painful youth has for years been hearing a voice in his head he calls Mr. Lullaby, and he has finally started to act on what that voice is telling him—to kill any coma patient he can find, quickly.
Something is waking up in the tunnel—something is trying to get through. And Mr. Lullaby is coming.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Thriller Books -
Alex Cross Must Die
Publication Date: November 20, 2023
Subjects: Big City Cops, Crime Thrillers, Thrillers - Serial Killers, Mystery & Crime, Police Stories, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers
Series: Alex Cross Series
Proceeded By: Triple Cross
Description:
An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die.
“Drop whatever you’re doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.”
Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn’t fail—it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War–era machine gun.
The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. And the time before another lethal strike runs even shorter. Especially for Detective Cross.
Alex Cross Must Die.
Purchase Options: Barnes & Noble or Amazon
There Should Have Been Eight
by Nalini Singh
Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Subjects: Suspense Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers
Description:
Seven friends.
One last weekend.
A mansion half in ruins.
No room for lies.
Someone is going to confess.
Because there should have been eight. . . .
They met when they were teenagers. Now they’re adults, and time has been kind to some and unkind to others—none more so than to Bea, the one they lost nine long years ago.
They’ve gathered to reminisce at Bea’s family’s estate, a once-glorious mansion straight out of a gothic novel. Best friends, old flames, secret enemies, and new lovers are all under one roof. But when the weather turns and they’re snowed in at the edge of eternity, there’s nowhere left to hide from their shared history.
As the walls close in, the pretense of normality gives way to long-buried grief, bitterness, and rage. Underneath it all, there’s the nagging feeling that Bea’s shocking death wasn’t what it was claimed to be. And before the weekend is through, the truth will be unleashed—no matter the cost. . . .
Come back every Monday for a new list of books released.
I hope you're finding something great to read today.
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