Release Week: 4 January 2022

Release Week: 4 January 2022

Posted on 2022-01-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The School for Good Mothers: A Novel By: Jessamine Chan, read by Catherine Ho for Simon and Schuster -- "In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance."

• The High House: A Novel By: Jessie Greengrass, read by Camilla Rockley, Sam Newton, and Mariam Abu-Hejleh for Simon and Schuster -- "In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster."

• Anthem By: Noah Hawley, read by Shiromi Arserio for Grand Central -- "Something is happening to teenagers across America, spreading through memes only they can parse."

• The Maid: A Novel By: Nita Prose, read by Lauren Ambrose for Random House -- “A twist-and-turn whodunit, set in a five-star hotel, from the perspective of the maid who finds the body. Think Clue. Think page-turner.” (Glamour)

• The Starless Crown: Moon Fall, Book 1 By: James Rollins, read by Nicola Barber for Macmillan -- "An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure."

• Bad Gods By: Gaie Sebold, read by Lucy Paterson for Penguin -- "All tastes! All species! All currencies! You can find anything in Scalentine, the city of portals, but you won't find a better brothel than the Red Lantern. And its proprietor, Babylon Steel (ex-mercenary, ex-priestess, ex...lots of things), means to keep it that way. But a prurient cult are protesting in the streets, sex workers are disappearing and Babylon has bills to pay. When the powerful Diplomatic Section hires her - off the books - to find a missing heiress, she has to take the job. And then her past starts to catch up with her...."

SERIES WATCH:

• The God Is Not Willing: Witness, Book 1 By: Steven Erikson, read by Emma Gregory for Brilliance -- "Erikson continues the beloved Malazan Book of the Fallen with this first book in the thrilling Witness sequel trilogy. Many years have passed since three warriors brought carnage and chaos to Silver Lake. Now the tribes of the north no longer venture into the southlands. The town has recovered and yet the legacy remains."

• The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle Series, Book 2 By: Benjamin Percy, read by Mela Lee and Will Collyer for Harper -- "The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell of a man; his promising career as a biologist crumbling alongside the meteor strikes that altered weather patterns and caused a massive drought."

• Stolen Skies: Vickery and Castine, Book 3 By: Tim Powers, read by Bronson Pinchot for Recorded Books -- "Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn’t have — and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him."

• Where the Drowned Girls Go: Wayward Children, Book 7 By: Seanan McGuire, read by Whitney Johnson for Macmillan -- "There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. And it isn't as safe."

• Star Wars: The High Republic: The Fallen Star By: Claudia Gray, read by Marc Thompson for Random House -- "In this gripping sequel to Star Wars: The Rising Storm, the light of the Jedi faces its darkest hour."

BACKLIST WATCH:

• The Tower of Ravens: The Rhiannon's Ride Series, Book 1 By: Kate Forsyth (2005), read by Elle Newlands for Blackstone -- "One-Horn’s daughter is not like the others of her kind. Born of a human father, she lacks the horns so prized by her people and is scorned even by her own mother. Her only chance for escape is to capture one of the legendary flying horses and ride it to freedom."

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