New Release Books

Today’s first Featured New Release is The Flicker Men ($12.99 Kindle), by Ted Kosmatka [Henry Holt and Co. / Macmillan]. Library Journal Starred Review; Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Book Description
“If Stephen Hawking and Stephen King wrote a novel together, you’d get The Flicker Men. Brilliant, disturbing, and beautifully told.” -Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of the Wool series

A quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist

Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step back into the light.

With three months to produce new research, Eric replicates the paradoxical double-slit experiment to see for himself the mysterious dual nature of light and matter. A simple but unprecedented inference blooms into a staggering discovery about human consciousness and the structure of the universe.

His findings are celebrated and condemned in equal measure. But no one can predict where the truth will lead. And as Eric seeks to understand the unfolding revelations, he must evade shadowy pursuers who believe he knows entirely too much already.

About the Author
Ted Kosmatka was born and raised in Chesterton, Indiana. He is the author of Prophet of Bones and The Games, a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2012. His short fiction has been nominated for both the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards and has appeared in numerous The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest and works as a writer in the video game industry.

Today’s second Featured New Release is An Obsession with Vengeance ($3.99 Kindle), the third novel in the Wanted Men series by Nancy Haviland [Montlake Romance].

Book Description
Maksim Kirov is a mobster who gets what he wants, both at his posh gentleman’s club in Hell’s Kitchen and in the bedroom. Sexy, dangerous, and obsessed with control, he’s risen through the ranks to become a highly respected leader in the tight-knit Tarasov crime syndicate. He rules with an iron fist…until he meets Sydney Martin.

The Australian-born Sydney is determined to refuse Maks’s advances, despite the couple’s electrifying chemistry. The owner of a neighboring nightclub, Sydney rules her own domain. But when a deal with a Mexican drug cartel goes terribly wrong, she has no choice but to turn to Maksim and the Tarasov organization for protection. Could giving in to their intense attraction be what saves both Maks and Sydney? Or will their all-consuming passion—and her shocking secret—destroy their lives?

In the hot and scandalous third installment of the Wanted Men series, lust and loyalty clash in New York’s mob underworld.

About the Author
Nancy Haviland is a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Canadian Authors Association. When she’s not writing, her three children do their best to monopolize her time. She and her family, along with an arrogant kitty named Talbot, reside near Toronto, Ontario.

Today’s third Featured New Release is a trio of titles from authors and television writer Lee Goldberg, whose credits include SeaQuest; Hunter, The Glades; Martial Law; Diagnosis Murder; Nero Wolfe; She-Wolf of London; R.L. Stine’s The Nightmare Room; Baywatch and Monk. Which is to say, he knows his way around writing for television.

The Best TV Shows That Never Were ($2.99 Kindle)

This lively and entertaining book looks at the three hundred best and worst TV series ideas—known in the industry as “pilots”—that never made it to primetime from 1955-1990. From the adventures of a Samurai D.A. to the antics of an invisible alien baby, Lee Goldberg reveals the most astonishing, funny, and bizarre shows that never were.

This book was previously published as “Unsold TV Pilots: The Greatest Shows You Never Saw” and “Unsold TV Pilots: The Almost Complete Guide To Everything You Never Saw on TV”

Television Fast Forward: Sequels & Remakes of Cancelled Series ($3.99 Kindle)

UPDATED AND REVISED 2015 EDITION

Did Gilligan and his fellow castaways ever get rescued? Is Dr. Marcus Welby still making house calls? Is Marcia Brady single? What kind of father did Beaver Cleaver grow up to be? Did Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers finally tie the bionic knot?

Those burning questions… and many, many more… about your favorite TV characters are finally answered in the new, 2015 edition of this unique and entertaining book, which examines every TV series revival, sequel or remake that was made from the 1950s through the early 1990s.

This NEW edition now includes updates of the original entries PLUS a a complete list of television series revivals and remakes that have been made from 1992 to 2015.

This is a must-have for every television reference book library.

Unsold Television Pilots: 1955-1989 ($4.99 Kindle)

THE TV REFERENCE BOOK THAT BECAME A NATIONAL MEDIA SENSATION … FINALLY AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK!

This is the ground-breaking, exhaustively-researched book that revealed, for the first time ever, all of the details behind the thousands of TV series ideas that were developed and rejected by the networks since the dawn of television.

The book was an instant, national sensation when it was first published in 1990, winning enthusiastic critical acclaim and enormous media attention, including on-air praise from TV legend Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” and was adapted into two hour-long specials, “The Greatest Shows You Never Saw” on CBS and “The Best TV Shows That Never Were” on ABC.

This is a landmark work of television history and research … a must-read for anyone who loves TV… and who wants to know how shows get on-the-air…and how they don’t.

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