New books: Run for Your Life
New releases this week include: Run for Your Life by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown $27.99). A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: Remember your manners or suffer the consequences.
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs (Berkley, $24.95). In a world where witches, vampires, werewolves and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people, it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side.
The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them by Amy Dickinson (Hyperion, $22.99). Advice columnist Amy Dickinson shares the story of the people who helped after she found herself a reluctant single parent.
War Child: A Memoir; A Child Soldier’s Story by Emmanuel Jal (St. Martin’s, $24.95). Emmanuel Jal was conscripted into the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, one of 10,000 child soldiers who fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade.
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani (HarperCollins, $25.99). Valentine Roncalli, adrift after a failed relationship and an aborted teaching career, becomes an apprentice to her 80-year-old grandmother, Teodora Angelini, at the tiny family shoe business.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95). Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny.
True Colors by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s, $25.95). The story of the Grey sisters is set in a small Washington town and follows Winona, Aurora and Vivi Ann from the time of their mother’s death, when they were young teens in 1979, through adulthood, cataloging their trials and the men who typically come bearing them.
Murder at the Academy Awards: A Red Carpet Mystery by Joan Rivers with Jerrilyn Farmer (Pocket Books, $24) A celebrity interviewer’s once-in-a-lifetime "get" threatens to guarantee that his lifetime will be brief.
Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly
