New Releases for January 10th, 2012
Submitted by princebooks on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 3:15pm
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Limited First Edition Signed Copies Available Now!
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Dutton Books
336 pages, Hardcover, $17.99
The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics by Thomas Edsall
A sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years--and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation -- and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers -- have dominated the debate. Elected officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices -- or worse, choices with no winners.
Doubleday Books
272 pages, Harcover, $24.95
Vulture Peak by John Burdett
Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact, more or less, despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok.
He's put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand -- an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as The Vultures. And yet, it's closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enough -- forget Buddha, think jealous husband -- to cope with his very own compromised and compromising world?
All will be revealed here, in John Burdett's most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.
Knopf Publishing
304 pages, Hardcover, $25.95
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as they try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the President and First Lady. Filled with riveting detail and insight into their partnership, emotions, and personalities, "The Obamas" is an intimate portrait that will surprise readers.
Little Brown and Company
368 pages, Hardcover, $29.99
