New Fiction November 8

Is it the publisher or is is Amazon? Why are some of the best novels coming out in hardback today and not available for download on our Kindle? I don't have the answer. One entity blames the other. We lose.

What we can do is download the a books in question - this time The Prague Cemetery from the itunes book store and read them on our iphones or ipads. I absolutely hate to recommend this to you. And, not just because this is a kindle blog. I am not a fan of the ibooks user interface, it stinks. If you are a kindle user and use the ibooks user interface you will immediately know what I mean. Pages are harder to turn, there isn't an easy way to keep the page stable if you turn your device - a real problem if you read while in bed. It is slllooooowwww. It always goes back to the bookshelf when you make a purchase. ...Wow, I sound like a whiner and I could go on and on. It is very sad because I am a big apple fan. I love my iphone. It is constantly attached to me, just with my kindle app as my ereader of choice!

But, either big publisher guys or Amazon are not giving us a choice when it comes to release dates. We want to be able to download and read our books on the day they are released. We are kindle lovers. We are not caught up in some 'save the printed book' protest. We just love to read. Anyway, ebooks have made it possible for so many more people to have access to more books than ever before...you don't even want me to get on my soapbox as a mom of a special ed child who used a kindle to improve his reading by amazing stretches!

Okay...I am stepping down. I have to tell you about a book that available on your kindle for download today. A Train in Winter is sure to become one of the next classics in Holocaust literature. It is a magnificant novel. It is sometimes hard to read, sometimes lovely, other times so moving you wonder why you never heard this story before.

I am just going to give you amazon's description of the novel because I am reading it right now and do want to give you any spoilers...oh, it would be so easy to do so:

They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of fifteen who scrawled "V" for victory on the walls of her lycÉe; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped Allied airmen. Strangers to each other, hailing from villages and cities from across France, these brave women were united in hatred and defiance of their Nazi occupiers.

Eventually, the Gestapo hunted down 230 of these women and imprisoned them in a fort outside Paris. Separated from home and loved ones, these disparate individuals turned to one another, their common experience conquering divisions of age, education, profession, and class, as they found solace and strength in their deep affection and camaraderie.

In January 1943, they were sent to their final destination: Auschwitz. Only forty-nine would return to France.

A Train in Winter draws on interviews with these women and their families; German, French, and Polish archives; and documents held by World War II resistance organizations to uncover a dark chapter of history that offers an inspiring portrait of ordinary people, of bravery and survival—and of the remarkable, enduring power of female friendship.


The Sisters is another new novel coming out today and available for download to your kindle. It is getting mixed reviews. I love a southern novel as you know so it is on my to read list. It is set in rural Kentucky beginning during the great depression. It follows two sisters, Bertie and Mabel, close until one creates a breach in their relationship, through WWII and Vietnam. Sena Jeter Naslund who I love, love, love said it was hard to put down and would become a classic!

Many of you have long told me to read Edna Buchanan. Well, I am starting with her new one... A Dark and Lonely Place sounds like a book I won't be able to put down. I have cleared the weekend and it will probably be my #fridayread for twitter. The story begins over a hundred years ago in Florida with alligators and swamps and the criminals who called Miami home. It is a Bonnie and Clyde that is said to out do Bonnie and Clyde and follows the family to the present day.... if this writer is as good as ya'll say I will be engrossed in this book. I can't wait. Especially because then I will have a long backlist to read!

If you love a good foo novel White Truffles in Winter will get you salivating and dusting off your old Escoffier cookbook. It is about the man and his two great loves and the dishes he created for them and other famous people.

Okay, I have jabbered enough, her are some samples of new releases for today, remember, some books, like Eco's The Prague Cemetery, are not yet available for Kindle. I just had to put them on for you in case you wanted to order a hard copy or stop by your local bookstore.



11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Battle of the Crater by Newt Gingrich
Blink of an Eye by William Cohen
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol
A burial at Sea Charles Finch
Coffin Man by James Doss
A dark and Lonely Place by Edna Buchanan
Endurance by Jay Lake
Hot Water by Erin Brockovich
The Ionia Sanction Gary Corby
Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
Rain Falls Like Mercy by Jack Todd
Scholar by L E Modesitt
The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
The Templar Magician P C Doherty
The Time in Between by Maria Duenas
White Truffles in Winter by N M Kelby

If you know of a book I left off pleas let me know and I will add it...
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