monday
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.
tuesday
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.
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.
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.
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.
