“House of Flame and Shadow” by Sarah J. Maas
In this sexy, breathtaking sequel to the #1 bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas’ Crescent City series reaches new heights as Bryce and Hunt’s world is brought to the brink of collapse — with its future resting on their shoulders.
Army Nurse Comes of Age During Vietnam War in Kristin Hannah’s Historical Epic
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. In war, she meets — and becomes one of — the lucky, the brave, the broken and the lost. But war is just the beginning.
HBO to Develop Gillian Flynn’s “Dark Places”
According to a Variety exclusive, HBO is developing a limited series based on the Gillian Flynn novel Dark Places. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner on the project, along with co-writers Brett Johnson and Guerrin Gardner. This will be the novel’s second adaptation, following the 2015 film starring Charlize Theron.
The story follows Libby Day twenty-five years after the sacrificial deaths of her mother and two sisters. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started — on the run from a killer.
Koontz’s “Bad Weather Friend”
Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. Someone’s out to get him. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate containing a seven-foot-tall “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. He’ll find Benny’s enemies and deal with them.
Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet” Directed by Chloe Zhao, Starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley
Paul Mescal will star as a roguish young William Shakespeare in a big-screen adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao. “That book – it’s just devastating,” Mescal said in an interview with Vogue. Mescal will appear alongside Jessie Buckley as Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, called Agnes in the book. “I think she’s one of our present-day greats,” Mescal said of his costar. “And Chloé [Zhao] is somebody I can’t wait to get in the weeds with, and get into the heads of those characters.”
Fans of Terry Hayes’ “I Am Pilgrim”: Your 10-Year Wait is Over with “The Year of the Locust”
Amanda Seyfried to Star in Peacock Limited Series of Liz Moore’s “Long Bright River”
Amanda Seyfried is set to star in (and executive produce) a limited series Peacock adaptation of Liz Moore’s New York Times bestselling novel, Long Bright River. The novel is a suspense thriller that tells the story of Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.
New Book Releases
Check out some of the highly anticipated books coming out this week!
The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
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Your Guide to the 2024 ALA Youth Media Awards
Jayne Ann Krentz’s New Romantic Suspense Installment Brings Amnesia and Psychic Intuition
Gripping Debut Tackles Crime, Culture & Colonization
After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal Singh has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a humiliating professional mistake. When an indentured Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation and Fiji’s newspapers scream “kidnapping,” the inspector-general reluctantly assigns Akal the case. Eager to achieve redemption, Akal agrees — but soon finds himself far more invested than he could have expected.
The Best Audiobooks of January
Enter to Win These 6 Book Club-Worthy Titles
Clara’s Secret by Stephan R. Frenkel
A Thousand Flying Things by Kathryn Brown Ramsperger
The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner
The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale by Virginia Kantra
On Madera Creek by Rachel Goss
Survival at Stake by Poorva Joshipura
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
— Franz Kafka
