Homer & Langley by E L DoctorowRandom House $26.00
Doctorow has re-imagined the lives of Homer and Langley Collyer. (Wikipedia explanation of who they were.) Homer is blind and slowly going deaf while Langley fills their home with more and more junk. Their world becomes smaller and smaller every day. Although I had dreams of suffocating and being trapped after reading it, it's one the best books I've read recently.
Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda GrangeSourcebooks $14.99
This paranormal Pride and Prejudice sequel is full of danger, darkness, and deep romantic love. Unlike some of the recent Jane Austen rewrites, this is a serious novel, creating a very readable explanation for all of Mr Darcy's stand-offishness.
Rampant by Diana PeterfreundHarperTeen $17.99
Astrid has always scoffed at her eccentric mother's stories about killer unicorns. But after one attacks her boyfriend--ruining any chance of him taking her to the prom--Astrid must head to Rome to become a unicorn hunter. This was a very compelling book that I had a hard time putting down.
Fallen by Kate Lauren
Delacorte $17.99 (December release)
This one is angels! Seventeen-year-old Luce is a new student at Sword & Cross, an unwelcoming boarding/reform school in Savannah, Georgia. Luce's boyfriend died under suspicious circumstances, and now she carries the guilt over his death with her as she navigates the unfriendly halls at Sword & Cross, where every student seems to have an unpleasant--even evil--history.
The Wife's Tale by Lori LansensLittle Brown $24.99 (February release)
On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy--still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school--to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband's disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search.
Deaf Sentence by David LodgeViking $25.95
From Booker Prize finalist Lodge comes this funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness and death, aging and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy that is human life.
