Kate Brauning - How We Fall (Merit
Press, F+W Media) November 2014
Ever since
Jackie moved to her uncle's sleepy farming town, she's been flirting way too
much--and with her own cousin, Marcus.
Her friendship
with him has turned into something she can't control, and he's the reason
Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for...no one knows where.
Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are
searching for her body. Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her
love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away.
The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls
for the new girl in town. But something isn't right about this stranger, and
Jackie's suspicions about the new girl's secrets only drive the wedge deeper
between Jackie and Marcus.
Then Marcus is
forced to pay the price for someone else's lies as the mystery around Ellie's
disappearance starts to become horribly clear. Jackie has to face terrible
choices. Can she leave her first love behind, and can she go on living with the
fact that she failed her best friend?
Victoria Griffith – Amazon Burning (Astor + Blue) November
7, 2014
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When
22-year-old aspiring journalist Emma Cohen is forced to flee the comforts of
her NYU student life, she maneuvers an internship from her father at his
newspaper in Rio de Janeiro. There, Emma is immediately swept into a major news
story—and a life-threatening situation—when a famous jungle environmentalist,
Milton Silva, is mysteriously murdered.
Emma
must now enter the Amazon rainforest with her father to investigate, where she
is both awed by the enormity and beauty of the Amazon and appalled by its
reckless destruction. Not only will Emma have to brave the primal world of the
Amazon, she must fight to survive the kidnappers, villains, corrupt activists,
and indigenous tribes that lay in wait along the ever-twisting trail of the
murder case. Stretched to the brink, it’s up to Emma, her father, and the
dreamy news photographer, Jimmy, to unravel the mystery and live to tell the
tale.
Rich Zahradnik – Last Words (Camel Press) November 2014
www.richzahradnik.com
In March of
1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman
Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story
that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram.
Ever since he was demoted from the police beat for inventing sources, the
34-year-old has been a lost soul.
A break comes at
Bellevue, where Taylor views the body of a homeless teen picked up in the
Meatpacking District. Taylor smells a rat: the dead boy looks too clean,
and he’s wearing a distinctive Army field jacket. A little digging reveals that
the jacket belonged to a hobo named Mark Voichek and that the teen was a
spoiled society kid up to no good, the son of a city official.
Taylor’s efforts
to protect Voichek put him on the hit list of three goons who are willing to
kill any number of street people to cover tracks that just might lead to City
Hall. Taylor has only one ally in the newsroom, young and lovely reporter Laura
Wheeler. Time is not on his side. If he doesn’t wrap this story up soon, he’ll
be back on the obits page–as a headline, not a byline.
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