Hudson Booksellers' Best Books for Summer 2014

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While thoroughly documented and well detailed, Lawrencein Arabia reads like a thriller. Scott Andersons book givescritical attention to the man (and several other key players),the era, and the region. A necessary (and fascinating) titlefor anyone interested in the modern Middle East. -Ed, Atlanta

Peter Baker, senior White House correspondent for The NewYork Times , crafts a gripping and intimate narrative that re-counts the drama and controversy of the Bush and Cheneyadministration. Confronted by one crisis after another, theystruggled to protect the country and remake the world, whiletheir partnership was constantly evolving. From the early dayswhen Bush leaned on Cheney, making him the most in uen -tial vice president in history, to their nal hours, when the twohad grown so far apart they were clashing in the West Wing;theirs was the most captivating American political partner-ship since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.

Lawrence In Arabia $17.95Scott Anderson

Days of Fire $17.95Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

One Summer $16.95Bill BrysonBill Bryson is back with his trademark wit and style. In OneSummer: America, 1927 , he tackles one particular summer inAmerican history, and both informs and entertains his readersin equal measure. -Anne, Atlanta

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Turn Around Bright Eyes is about nding the courage tomove on, clearing your throat, and letting it rip. Its aboutnavigating your way through adult romance. And its abouthow songs get tangled up in our deepest emotions, evokingmemories of the past while inspiring hope for the future.

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The Good Spy $26.00Kai Bird @Kaibird123Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Birds compellingportrait of the remarkable life and death of Americas mostimportant spy in the Middle East. On April 18, 1983, a bombexploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63people. The attack was a turning point in US relations withthe Muslim world. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah asa political force, but even more importantly, it eliminatedAmericas most in uential and effective intelligence of cerin the Middle East-CIA agent Robert Ames.

Now a Net ix original series. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and attimes enraging, Kermans story offers a rare look into the livesof women in prison-why it is we lock so many away and whathappens to them when theyre there.

Orange is the New Black $16.00Piper Kerman @Piper

Turn Around Bright Eyes $15.99Rob Sheffield @robsheff


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All the Light We Cannot See $27.00Anthony Doerr

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour $26.00Joshua Ferris

The Last Kind Words Saloon $24.95Larry McMurtry

All the Light We Cannot See is a gorgeously written novel aboutbeauty, love, courage, and history. Two teenagers a blind girlin Paris, an orphan boy in Germany are coming-of-age with thecoming of war. When Marie Laure and her father ee Paris, theymay be carrying one of Frances greatest treasures (and curses).Werners fascination with radios, and his fear of the mines thatkilled his father, make him a valuable soldier for the Reich. Youwant to savor every sentence, every image, but the pages yanyway as the novel follows their paths to Saint-Malo, a walledcity on the coast of France under siege at the end of the war.The smallest spark of humanity, a eeting connection across bor -ders, the apocalyptic devastation of war; in the vastness of time,they almost disappear, but they all matter. Its not a new subject,but it reads like one: life. - Sara, Atlanta

A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteriesof modern life by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, oneof the most exciting voices of his generation. At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, andindelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaningof life, love and truth, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeplymoving and constantly surprising tour de force.

Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writerto shape our literary imagination of the American West.With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again to thevivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century andcowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic LonesomeDove.

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Night Heron $26.00Adam Brookes @AdamBrooksWordSet in China, and ripped from todays headlines, comes apulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the21st century. A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp inthe dead of night, eeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British;now Peanut must disappear on Beijings surveillance-blanket-

ed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan,offering military secrets in return for extraction. But the secretsprove more valuable than Peanut or Mangan could everhave known... and not only to the British.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder $15.00Eli Brown

Looking for Me $16.00Beth Hoffman @wordrunner

With Cinnamon and Gunpowder , Eli Brown has given usa swashbuckling epicures adventure simmered over asurprisingly touching love storywith a dash of the strangest,most delightful cookbook never written.

Beth Hoffmans bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt ,won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story andcast of unforgettable characters. Now her air for evocativesettings and richly drawn Southern personalities shines again

in her compelling follow-up, Looking for Me.

Redhook@HachetteBooks

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Penguin Books@penguinusa

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FictionFictionFictionSummer Days $15.00Lisa Jackson @readlisajackson

Fifty Shades of Grey $15.95E L James @E_L_James

A Serpents Tooth $15.00Craig Johnson @ucrosspop25

That summer feeling: sun- lled days, warm nights, andthe sweet expectation that comes with ndingorrediscoveringlove. . .

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interviewyoung entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a manwho is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly,innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and,despite his enigmatic reserve, nds she is desperate to getclose to him.

With three consecutive New York Times bestsellers and the

blockbuster A&E television adaptation Longmire, CraigJohnson has more than earned his spurs. In A SerpentsTooth , Sherriff Walt Longmire has Cord Lynear, a rebelliousMormon lost boy forced off his compound, locked up inAbsaroka County jail for his own protection. A search for theboys mother turns into in a high-plains scavenger hunt thatends at the barbed-wire doorstep of a well-armed, interstatepolygamy group run by four-hundred-pound Roy Lynear.

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Crazy Rich Asians $15.00Kevin Kwan @crazyrichasians

Child of Mine $15.99David & Beverly Lewis

The Good House $15.00Ann Leary @annleary

A funny, juicy debut novel about the devious scheming thatoccurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes inAsia brings his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend home tomeet the familywithout telling her that theyre loaded.

Flight instructor Jack Livingston has been raising his eight-

year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident thattook her parents lives. When he travels, Natalie is tenderlycared for by her Amish nanny, Laura Mast, who loves the littlegirl as her own. Eight excruciating years ago, Kelly Mainessbaby was kidnapped. Determined to find her child, Kelly hastirelessly pursued every lead to its bitter end. And now, withthe clock ticking, one last clue from a private investigatorignites a tiny flame of hope: Just a few miles away lives ayoung girl who matches the profile. Can this be, at long last,Kellys beloved daughter?

The Good House , by Ann Leary, is funny, poignant, andterrifying. A classic New England tale that lays bare thesecrets of one little town, this spirited novel will stay with youlong after the story has ended.

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TransAtlantic $16.00Colum McCann

Want Not $14.95Jonathan Miles

National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCanns rareand wondrous New York Times bestseller, bringing togetherfour generations of heartbreaking, unforgettable women withsome of the most signi cant men in Irish-American history.

A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times,Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states ofdisrepair-a young freegan couple living off the grid in NewYork City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife bythe dissolution of his marriage and his fathers losing battlewith Alzheimers; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate,whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely placeshas yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included.

Random HouseTrade Paperbacks@randomhouse

Mariner Books@HMHCo

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Norwegian by Night $14.95Derek Miller @derekbmiller

Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway $14.95Sara Gran @misssaragran

A former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy raceacross the Norwegian wilderness, eeing demons both realand imagined.

Claire Dewitt is my favorite new sleuth. She does all kinds of

inadvisable things in outlandish situations in exotic locations exactly what you want in escapist fare. But she alsofeels more grounded in reality than the heroines of manymysteries. Ranging from the East Village in the 80s to theSan Francisco rock scene today, from S&M bars to horsecountry, with heavy doses of philosophy, Claire falls apart asshe puts the pieces together. Sara Gran is such a pleasureto read, her books just might be as addictive as Dewittscocaine.- Sara, Atlanta

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A Chain of Thunder $17.00Jeff Shaara

The Bone Season $17.00Samantha Shannon @say_shannon

Stella Bain $16.00Anita Shreve

Jeff Shaara returned to the Civil War in 2012 with A Blaze ofGlory , his riveting account of the Battle of Shiloh. In this NewYork Times bestselling gripping sequel featuring Grant,Pemberton, and more, he moves to the Siege of Vicksburg.This new tetralogy is Shaara at his best, writing for hisbroadest and most avid readership.

A dash of dystopian and a dash of steampunk make thisnew novel a must read. This complex world is closer to Gameof Thrones than Harry Potter but fans of both will enjoy this

unique tale. - Justin, Atlanta

In this gripping historical drama that transports us fromEurope to America and back again, Anita Shreve weavesan engrossing tale about love and memory, set against thebackdrop of a war that devastated an entire generation.

The Rosie Project $15.99Graeme Simsion @GraemeSimsionThe art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yetsocially inept professor of genetics, whos decided its time hefound a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with whichDon approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to nd hisperfect partner: a sixteen-page, scienti cally valid survey to lterout the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.

Simon & Schuster@simonschuster

Ballantine Books@atrandom

Back Bay Books@littlebrown

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Guests on Earth $14.95Lee Smith

Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore $15.00Robin Sloan @robinsloan

Author Lee Smith has created, through a seamless blending ofction and fact, a mesmerizing novel about a world apart--in

which art and madness are luminously intertwined.

Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, RobinSloans Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly whatit sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and willnever want to leave.

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FictionFictionFictionSyndrome E $16.00Frank Thilliez

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P $15.00Adelle Waldman @adellewaldman

The Time Between $15.00Karen White @KarenWhiteWrite

A breakout bestseller in France, Syndrome E is a taut thrillerwith cinematic echoesfrom The Manchurian Candidate tothe Bourne seriesthat uncovers a shocking chapter in thehistory of neuroscience.

Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklyns literary scene. Afterseveral lean and striving years, he has his pick of bothmagazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshotbusiness reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend; andHannah, almost universally regarded as nice and smart,or smart and nice, who is fun and holds her own inconversation with his friends.

A stunning new novel of betrayal and forgiveness from the

New York Times bestselling author. Thirty-four-year-old EleanorMurray is consumed with guilt for causing the accident thatparalyzed her sisterand for falling in love with her sistershusband. But when her boss offers her a part-time job caringfor his elderly aunt, Helena, Eleanor accepts, hoping thisgood deed will help atone for her mistakes.


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The Maze Runner $9.99James Dashner @jamesdashner

The Fault in Our Stars $12.99John Green @realjohnreen

Looking for Alaska $9.99John Green @realjohnreen

Read the first book in the New York Times bestsellingMaze Runner series, perfect for fans of The HungerGames and Divergent.

The Fault in Our Stars completely captivated me. I was cryingand then laughing and then crying again. I was attachedto the characters and I still am, months after reading thebook. John Green shows the reader sadness, love, hate, frightand confusion all in one paragraph through humor and thedeep connection with the characters that I still feel monthsafter reading the book. The Fault in Our Stars is absolutelymy favorite book. It is not just some cheesy romance with aperfect fairy tale ending but its different and it is a reminderthat life is not a perfect fairy tale. I hope never to be in thecharacters situation, but watching them go through suchtragedy was in its own way magical. - Stella, Atlanta

Looking for Alaska is far more than a coming of age story.With a boarding school as a backdrop, John Green exploresthe inner and outer worlds of teens struggling to adulthoodin a warm, serious, humorous, sometimes philosophical, yetalways accessible way. An amazing debut of a great voicefor the millennial generation. - Ed, Atlanta

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Theodore Boone: The Activist $7.99John Grisham

The Rithmatist $9.99Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson

Out of the Easy $9.99Ruta Sepetys @RutaSepetys

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows ofAva Lavender $17.99Leslye Walton @LeslyeWalton

Though hes only thirteen, Theodore Boone has spent moretime in the courtroom than almost anywhere else, and theresalways a new adventure waiting. After being falsely accusedof vandalism and theft, Theo is happy to nally be out of thehot seat, once more dispensing legal advice to friends andcommunity members, when an exciting new case demands

his urgent attention.

More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Rithmatistshave the power to infuse life into two-dimensional guresknown as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanitys only defenseagainst the Wild Chalklings. Having nearly overrun the terri-tory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of theAmerican Isles.

With characters as captivating as those in her interna-tionally bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray , RutaSepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets, lies, and thehaunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.

Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion ofhuman love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. See anexclusive essay from Leslye Walton on the next page.

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When I learned that The Strange and Beautiful Sorrowsof Ava Lavender had been selected as one of HudsonBooksellers 2014 Best Books for Summer, I couldnt helpbut wonder if the theme of ight had something to do withit. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender is,after all, a book about a girl who was born with wings, yetcannot y. So it seems only tting that Ava Lavender wouldeventually nd her way to the airporta place wherepeople come to y.

I have this belief that everyonewhether theyre willingto admit it or not is a little bit infatuated with the possibilityof ying. As a child, I was both terri ed and enthralled by

the idea of it. I remember watching the animated version of Peter Pan withsuspended disbelief as the children soared around the edge of the nurseryceiling. I imagined myself beside them, my outstretched hands skimming thetops of the trees as I soared through the window and into the stars. At the time,the feeling of ight, the wind curling around my limbs, the jittery excitement ofwatching as the ground below me moved farther and farther away from myfeet, seemed not quite as impossible as it once had.

How many of us have climbed to the top of the jungle gym, swayed precari-ously from a tree branch, taken a mighty leap from the swing set; how manyof us believed, even if it was only for a mere second, that we were capable of

ight? It seemed so effortless, a simple question of merely going up instead ofdown. And perhaps, in a way, somewhere between that glorious second afterwe jumped and before we landed, we did y. Even if it was just for a second.But then we grew up and lost that delightful ability to suspend disbelief. Instead,we were gifted with things like logic and reason which state, in dull, monotonevoices, that people can only y with the help of a machine.

And yet.

And yet.Our infatuation with ight remains. It is an unstoppable force, an excited squealthat rips through the monotony, reminding us of that one miraculous momentwhere we de ed all good sense and sound judgment and we ew.

Its clich to admit, but perhaps our interest in ying also explains our interest inreading. As the saying goes, reading takes you places. And ight, like reading,allows us to see things from a new perspective, in ways that perhaps we neverwere able to before. And perhaps this is whyregardless of our agethatfeeling of wanting to y never leaves

us. It is more than the mere act itself,soaring through the air with the great-est of ease. It is the freedom to visit thefantastic, a wish to encounter some-thing new and unlikely. It is a craving,one we cannot explain, for certainexperiences, certain sights and soundsand tastes. It is the desire to do theimpossible.

It is the desire to y.

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