Odd Hours, the brand new novel featuring Dean Koontz’s most beloved hero, goes on sale May 20. Now you can view webisode #1 of “Odd Passenger,” a brand new Odd Thomas adventure.
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THE CRYSTAL SKULL ONLINE GAME
December 21, 2012. The world will end on this day. But is there hope for mankind? Test your wits in this highly-addictive game based on Manda Scott's suspense-filled novel, The Crystal Skull, on sale now.
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This month on Booked for Breakfast, our online mystery and thriller book club, the intensity grows with each book:
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- Dean Koontz’s The Good Guy: Suddenly, Tim Carrier, an ordinary guy, is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop . . . and as relentless as evil incarnate.
- J. F. Englert’s A Dog Among Diplomats: Murder has come to Manhattan’s East Village. And when detectives call twenty-something artist Harry to the scene, his Labrador, Randolph, instantly smells a rat. Why? Because Harry’s missing almost-fiancée—and Randolph’s beloved mistress—has been implicated in the murder, which has ties to the U.N.
- Lee Child’s Nothing to Lose: Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.
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Every weekday morning you are given (via e-mail) a portion of that week’s book. It only takes five minutes to read the day's selection and by the end of the week you'll have sampled two to three chapters.
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BANTAM DELL PODCAST: THIS MONTH CHECK OUT FOUR NEW EPISODES!
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Listen each week to a new Bantam Dell author talking about books, the writing process, and the experiences of being a writer. Hear bestselling authors and exciting new writers sharing their insight with you, the reader. This month’s featured authors include:
- Manda Scott, author of The Crystal Skull
- Arthur Herman, author of Gandhi & Churchill
- Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart
- Dean Koontz, author of Odd Hours
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A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES Diana Gabaldon
The acclaimed Outlander saga continues in this #1 New York Times bestseller that finds Jamie and his time-traveling family living in the American colonies on the eve of a revolution.
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BONUS! Listen to the author’s podcast.
BONUS! Watch the video of Diana Gabaldon’s Second Life event.
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THE CRYSTAL SKULL
Manda Scott
In this "nail-biting tour de force” (The Guardian, UK) from internationally bestselling author Manda Scott, a 21st century academic and an Elizabethan physician devise a plan across the centuries to save the world from a prophecy as old—and as deadly—as time itself.
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THE DARKEST KISS
Keri Arthur
Riley Jenson is up against a pair of killers only too willing to give their victims the darkest kiss of all in book six of the sexy, supernatural and bitingly good Guardian series.
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Watch the trailer for The Darkest Kiss.
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EDUCATION OF A WANDERING MAN Louis L’Amour
Celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s favorite storyteller with this Special Centennial Edition of Louis L’Amour’s mesmerizing memoir. “L’Amour’s books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever” (The Wall Street Journal).
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THE ARCHIVIST’S STORY
Travis Holland
In this enduring tribute to the written word, a young archivist in Stalinist Russia will risk everything in order to smuggle out the last pages of a famed author—pages he is charged with destroying.
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For over ten years, The Dial Press has published a selective, yet wide-ranging roster of talented and award winning fiction and nonfiction writers, including Sophie Kinsella, Marie Arana, Elizabeth McCracken, Allegra Goodman, David Schickler, and Sting.
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GARDEN SPELLS
Sarah Addison Allen
In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, the extraordinary Waverly women of Bascom, North Carolina tend an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special kind of fruit. "Spell-bindingly charming" (Booklist, starred review).
Read Chapter One here
BONUS! Listen to the author’s podcast
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Read a Q&A with the author here
Available in two formats!
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New voices. New choices. Once a month, Bantam Discovery will release simultaneous trade paperback and mass market editions of new novels featuring authors whose voices speak to today's engaged reader.
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SISTERS
Danielle Steel
The #1 bestselling author delivers a powerful message about the unbreakable bond of one of life’s most precious relationships in this compelling, lovingly told tale of one tumultuous year in the life of four sisters.
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TUG OF WAR Barbara Cleverly
A glamorous war widow has claimed a shell-shocked soldier suffering from amnesia as her husband. But four others have identified this soldier as a different man in this “stunner” (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review) of a mystery featuring Detective Joe Sandilands.
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THE WISE HEART
Jack Kornfield
In Jack Kornfield’s “best book yet” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), he explores the scope of Buddhist psychology and shows its profound applications to the dilemmas we fact today.
Read the book’s Introduction here
BONUS! Don’t miss Jack Kornfield’s podcast episode on May 19th.
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IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TAPAS
Polly Evans Discover the food, people, beauty and history of Spain—on a bicycle!—with this funny, irreverent and thoroughly enjoyable travelogue that is “highly likable . . . . As unpretentious as a tapas bar, and as brimming with savory morsels” (Kirkus Reviews).
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THE SCALPEL AND THE SILVER BEAR
Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt The author, a surgeon, takes the reader on a spellbinding, eloquently-written and personal journey as she describes her struggles to bring modern medicine to a New Mexican Navajo reservation, bringing the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart.
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THE CALIPH'S HOUSE
Tahir Shah In this brilliant and hilarious account of his family’s tumultuous year fixing up a ramshackle palace in Casablanca, English travel writer Shah exorcises the inherited spirits, or jinns, of the house and explores exotic Morocco. “The Caliph's House has it all” (The New York Times Book Review).
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AMERICAN CHICA
Marie Arana
Marie Arana shuttled between her father’s genteel Peruvian family and her mother’s rougher American relatives for years—but only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American, an individual whose cultural identity was split in half.
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THE HINDI-BINDI CLUB
Monica Pradhan
Three families of Indian-American women find themselves in a new world where saris and cashmere go together as naturally as saffron and jasmine in this elegant tapestry of East and West, peppered with food and ceremony, wisdom and sensuality.
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