spring 2016 - Library Services Centre
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spring 2016 - Library Services Centre
SPRING 2016 Distributed by Table of Contents Top Audio Titles – New Releases………………....……….…………1 Top Audio Titles – Re-Issue Titles……………………………………69 Top Audio Titles – Collections …………….……………………....101 Suggested retail prices are the means by which we calculate the sale price to our customers. Our customers are not required to sell our products for the suggested retail price imprinted or stickered on the products and may sell the products at a lower price. Suggested retail prices are subject to change without notice. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 1 TOP AUDIO TITLES – NEW RELEASES – APRIL–JUNE 2016: 04/01/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511366632 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511366625 04/01/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women MP3-CD $14.99 9781511363594 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511363587 04/01/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368261 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368254 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Big Fear Andrew Case Read by Peter Berkrot Civilian investigator Leonard Mitchell can keep his job as the new head of the Department to Investigate Misconduct and Corruption only by successfully prosecuting veteran cop Ralph Mulino. Mulino shot an armed man on a dark night; he didn’t know the man was a fellow cop. Now, to keep his badge and his freedom, he has to make his case to the investigator. But the gun Mulino saw in his victim’s hand has disappeared. As Mitchell digs deeper into Mulino’s claim, it becomes clear that the “misconduct and corruption” infecting New York City go far beyond the actions of one allegedly dirty cop. Murder and sabotage force Mulino and Mitchell into an uneasy partnership to uncover the truth and protect the city they are both sworn to serve. Assuming, of course, they can stay alive… In the Light of What We See Sarah Painter Read by Fiona Hardingham Brighton, 1938: Grace Kemp is pushed away by the family she has shamed. Rejected and afraid, she begins a new life as a nurse. But danger stalks the hospital too, and she’ll need to be on her guard to avoid falling into familiar traps. And then there are the things she sees.… Strange portents that have a way of becoming real. Eighty years later, Mina Morgan is brought to the same hospital after a near-fatal car crash. She is in terrible pain but recalls nothing. She’s not even sure whom to trust. Mina too sees things that others cannot, but now, in hospital, her visions are clearer than ever.… Two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by a shared space and a common need to salvage their lives. The Light of Fireflies Paul Pen, translated by Simon Bruni Read by Scott Merriman For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone’s been acting very strangely. The boy begins to wonder why they never say who the father is, about what happened before his own birth, about why they’re shut away. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 2 A few days ago, some fireflies arrived in the basement. His grandma said, There’s no creature more amazing than one that can make its own light. That light makes the boy want to escape, to know the outside world. Problem is, all the doors are locked. And he doesn’t know how to get out.… 04/01/2016 NON-FICTION / Psychology MP3-CD $29.99 9781511364805 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511364775 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781511364799 04/01/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511342704 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511342698 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Man, Interrupted Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It Philip Zimbardo & Nikita Coulombe Read by David deVries In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called "The Demise of Guys," which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. This new book is an expansion of that brief polemic based on Zimbardo's observations, research, and the survey that was completed by over 20,000 viewers of the original TED Talk. The premise here is that we are facing a not-so-brave new world; a world in which young men are getting left behind. Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Coulombe say that an addiction to video games and online porn have created a generation of shy, socially awkward, emotionally removed, and risk-adverse young men who are unable (and unwilling) to navigate the complexities and risks inherent to real-life relationships, school, and employment. Taking a critical look at a problem that is tearing at families and societies everywhere, Man, Interrupted suggests that our young men are suffering from a new form of "arousal addiction," and introduce a bold new plan for getting them back on track. Orchids and Stone Lisa Preston Read by Cris Dukehart Daphne Mayfield sought a moment of quiet in a park—a break from city life, a tense relationship, and chronic overwork—but then an elderly woman makes a desperate plea. Daphne is reluctant to get involved when she’s not sure what’s happening, but she wants to help the stranger. Is the rambling old lady the victim of a crime or a victim of dementia? As her unease grows, Daphne can’t let go of the encounter. No matter what her boyfriend or her friends say. No matter what the retired homicide detective warns. Though she knows she’s meddling in other people’s lives, her instincts scream that the danger is real. With each increasingly bold intervention, Daphne involves herself in someone else’s crisis until she’s in too deep to turn back. She’s not just fighting for a stranger’s life…she’s fighting for her own. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 3 04/01/2016 FICTION / Fantasy / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511358996 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511358989 04/01/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511342889 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511342872 04/04/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $35.99 9781511370943 Uabridged CD $41.99 9781511370936 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Queen's Poisoner The Kingfountain Series Jeff Wheeler Read by Kate Rudd King Severn Argentine’s fearsome reputation precedes him: usurper of the throne, killer of rightful heirs, ruthless punisher of traitors. Attempting to depose him, the Duke of Kiskaddon gambles…and loses. Now the duke must atone by handing over his young son, Owen, as the king’s hostage. And should his loyalty falter again, the boy will pay with his life. Seeking allies and eluding Severn’s spies, Owen learns to survive in the court of Kingfountain. But when new evidence of his father’s betrayal threatens to seal his fate, Owen must win the vengeful king’s favor by proving his worth—through extraordinary means. And only one person can aid his desperate cause: a mysterious woman, dwelling in secrecy, who truly wields power over life, death, and destiny. While You Were Mine Ann Howard Creel Read by Carly Robins The end of World War II should have brought joy to Gwen Mullen. But on V-J Day, her worst fear is realized. As celebrating crowds gather in Times Square, a soldier appears on her doorstep to claim Mary, the baby abandoned to Gwen one year earlier. Suddenly Gwen is on the verge of losing the child she has nurtured and loves dearly. With no legal claim to Mary, Gwen begins to teach Lieutenant John McKee how to care for his child, knowing that he will ultimately take Mary away. What starts as a contentious relationship, however, turns into something more, and Gwen must open her heart to learn that love means taking chances. Beyond the Sales Process 12 Proven Strategies for a Customer-Driven World Steve Andersen & Dave Stein Read by Jeff Cummings The average customer spends less than 5% of their time engaged in the buying of products and services…meaning that sales professionals who focus solely on the moment of the sale have made a fatal miscalculation. Featuring instructional case studies from companies including Panasonic, Hilton, Merck, and Honeywell, this evidence-based book provides readers with a proven methodology for driving success before, during, and after every sale. Embracing the entire customer life cycle, Beyond the Sales Process reveals twelve essential strategies including: • Study your customer • Give them compelling reasons to engage APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 4 • • • • • Build a vision for them of their own success Understand your customers’ drivers, objectives, and challenges Achieve alignment Create and realize value Learn from your results to cultivate lasting—and mutually beneficial relationships 04/05/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 6-10 The 52-Storey Treehouse MP3-CD $14.99 9781489095312 Andy and Terry's incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has 13 new storeys, including a watermelon-smashing level, a wave machine, a life-size snakes and ladders game (with real ladders and real snakes), a rocket-powered carrot-launcher, a Ninja Snail Training Academy and a high-tech detective agency with all the latest high-tech detective technology, which is lucky because they have a BIG mystery to solve—where is Mr. Big Nose??? Unabridged CD $22.99 9781489340740 Andy Griffiths Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781489095329 04/05/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy Ages 12 and up MP3-CD $22.99 9781480556904 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781480556898 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781480556911 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The City's Son The Skyscraper Throne (Book 1) Tom Pollock Read by James Langton & Alison Larkin Beneath the streets of London lies a city of monsters and miracles, where wild train spirits stampede over the tracks and glass-skinned dancers with glowing veins light the streets. Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school. Running from a home that she shares with her father who has never recovered after Beth's mother's death, Beth stumbles into the hidden city and meets Filius Viae, London's asphalt-hued crown prince. And her timing couldn't have been more perfect. An ancient enemy is stirring under St. Paul's Cathedral, determined to stoke the flames of a centuries-old war, and Beth and Fin find themselves drawn into the depths of the mysterious urban wonderland, hoping to prevent the destruction of the city they both know and love. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 5 04/05/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781489098641 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781489095305 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781489098658 04/05/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511360692 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511360685 Exposure Helen Dunmore London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall. She knows that she too is in danger, and must fight to protect her children. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past, and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty. The Good Traitor Ryan Quinn Read by Angela Dawe The US ambassador to China is killed in a suspicious plane crash just days after a news article links Chinese spies to US business interests. The American intelligence community is left scrambling to investigate possible connections between the crash and a series of other high-profile deaths. On the other side of the world, ex-CIA operative Kera Mersal returns to the United States determined to clear her name after being branded a traitor for exposing illegal government surveillance. There, former colleague and fellow fugitive J. D. Jones contacts her with a new assignment: find out who is staging accidents to murder news sources. As the news site continues to publish stories about top-secret CIA programs and Chinese government corruption, Mersal reunites with old allies to uncover the truth and prove her loyalty to her country once and for all. But Mersal’s investigations put her on the trail of a sinister hacker whose own motives may influence a vaster—and more deadly—geopolitical conspiracy than either of the world’s two largest superpowers is prepared to handle. 04/05/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure The Kasari Nexus MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368292 When Jennifer emerges on the new world of Scion, she is confronted by the same deadly enemy. Now the Kasari have sided with the planet’s angel-like elite against the warrior underclass, but with the intent of ultimately ruling both. And when Jennifer is captured by the brutish Koranthians, her alienenhanced abilities make her a crucial asset in battling the Kasari and their winged allies. Back on a divided Earth, Jennifer’s brother, Mark, and Jack “the Ripper” Gregory wage their own war against the Kasari. As the global government welcomes the extraterrestrials, Mark, Jack, and their rebel faction seek to use Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368285 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Richard Phillips APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 6 the powerful mind-altering skills gained from the Kasari’s sworn enemies to repel the would-be conquerors. But faced with the might of Earth’s ruling forces, has the cause already been lost? 04/05/2016 FICTION / Thriller / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511363532 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511363525 04/05/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511372312 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511372305 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Lord of Ireland Fifth Knight Series E.M. Powell Read by James Langton John is a prince without prospect of a crown. As the youngest son of Henry II, he has long borne the hated nickname ‘Lackland.’ When warring tribes and an ambitious Anglo-Norman lord threaten Henry’s reign in Ireland, John believes his time has finally come. Henry is dispatching him there with a mighty force to impose order. Yet it is a thwarted young man who arrives on the troubled isle. John has not been granted its kingship—he is merely the Lord of Ireland, destined never to escape his father’s shadow. Unknown to John, Henry has also sent his right-hand man, Sir Benedict Palmer, to root out the traitors he fears are working to steal the land from him. But Palmer is horrified when John disregards Henry’s orders and embarks on a campaign of bloodshed that could destroy the kingdom. Now Palmer has to battle the increasingly powerful Lord of Ireland. Power, in John’s hands, is a murderous force—and he is only just beginning to wield it. The Matchmaker's Playbook A Wingmen Inc. Novel (Book 1) Rachel Van Dyken Read by Jeremy York After a career-ending accident, former NFL recruit Ian Hunter is back on campus—and he’s ready to get his new game on. As one of the masterminds behind Wingmen, Inc., a successful and secretive word-of-mouth dating service, he’s putting his extensive skills with women to work for the lovelorn. But when Blake Olson requests the services of Wingmen, Inc., Ian may have landed his most hopeless client yet. From her frumpy athletic gear to her unfortunate choice of footwear, Blake is going to need a miracle if she wants to land her crush. At least with a professional matchmaker by her side she has a fighting chance. Ian knows that his advice and a makeover can turn Blake into another successful match. But as Blake begins the transformation from hot mess to smokin’ hot, Ian realizes he’s in danger of breaking his cardinal rule.… APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 7 04/05/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $35.99 9781491546314 Unabridged CD $47.99 9781491546307 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $97.99 9781491546321 04/05/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $29.99 9781501261695 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781501261671 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781501261688 04/05/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $22.99 9781480568181 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781480568174 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781480568211 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Miller's Valley Anna Quindlen Read by Brittany Pressley A novel about family and the secrets that we keep—a young woman learning to love and leave home and realizing that, maybe, she never quite left. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and Rise and Shine. This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As a young girl in Miller’s Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen’s novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome. Murder, She Wrote: Design for Murder Murder, She Wrote Jessica Fletcher Jessica Fletcher’s been invited to New York Fashion Week to see a show from Cabot Cove’s own Xandr Ebon. But after two models die it’s clear someone had fatal designs—and the police think it’s Xandr. Jessica knows that her crime-solving instincts are going to be put to the test if she’s to exonerate the designer. But the fashion industry’s egos, conflicts of interest, spiteful accusations, and secrets mean she’ll have to work especially hard to uncover the real killer. Or another death could happen in a New York minute. One With You Crossfire Series Sylvia Day Read by Jill Redfield & Jeremy York FROM #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR SYLVIA DAY Gideon Cross. Falling in love with him was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. It happened instantly. Completely. Irrevocably. Marrying him was a dream come true. Staying married to him is the fight of my life. Love transforms. Ours is both a refuge from the storm and the most violent of tempests. Two damaged souls entwined as one. We have bared our deepest, ugliest secrets to one another. Gideon is the mirror that reflects all my flaws…and all the beauty I couldn’t see. He has given me everything. Now, I must prove I can be the rock, the shelter for him that he is for me. Together, we could stand against those who work so viciously to come between us. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 8 But our greatest battle may lie within the very vows that give us strength. Committing to love was only the beginning. Fighting for it will either set us free…or break us apart. 04/05/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511359269 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511359252 04/05/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376280 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376273 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Suddenly in Love A Lake Haven Novel Julia London Read by Cristina Panfilio Mia Lassiter is thrilled to finally put her artistic skills to use working for her aunt’s interior design shop in her hometown of East Beach. While renovating an old mansion overlooking stunning Lake Haven, she encounters a scruffy but attractive man named Brennan—the owner’s son. She doesn’t realize this sexy recluse is actually Everett Alden, the world-famous rock star in hiding who’s nursing his own artistic and personal crises. As their personalities clash, tension simmers between the struggling artist and jaded musician, and their time spent alone together in the gorgeous old house only serves to turn up the heat. Soon, Mia and Brennan’s creative passions boil over to inspire passions of another kind.… But reality comes crashing in when Mia’s celeb-obsessed cousin discovers Brennan’s true identity—and reveals it to the world. As paparazzi and industry execs swarm the mansion, Brennan is thrust back into his rock star lifestyle. Will Mia lose her soul mate just when she’s finally found him? Can their love survive the glaring spotlight? Taken Home A Lone Star Burn Ruth Cardello Read by Natalie Ross Playboy Mason Thorne is nothing short of complicated. Though he was a movie star at a young age, his life took a downward spiral when he turned to drugs after losing his mother. He cleaned up his act and became a senator but still keeps his distance from most everyone—including his own father. There are plenty of women around, but most are gone by morning. Twenty-five-year-old Chelle Landon thinks she must be the last virgin in Texas. She’s worried if she doesn’t remedy it soon, she’ll stay one forever. She attends yet another small-town wedding where the last single man her age is officially off the market, until sexy politician Mason Thorne appears. He’s the answer to her prayers, if one can pray for something that decadent. He needs a cover story, not another lover. Chelle’s on a mission to lose her virginity, no matter what. Will he break her heart or will she heal his? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 9 04/05/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376259 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376242 04/12/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 7-10 MP3-CD $22.99 9781511372176 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511372169 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781511372183 04/12/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781489340757 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781489098634 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781489340764 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Wild Man's Curse A Wilds of the Bayou Novel (Book 1) Susannah Sandlin Read by Elizabeth Godley While on an early morning patrol in the swamps of Whiskey Bayou, Louisiana wildlife agent Gentry Broussard spots a man leaving the home of voodoo priestess Eva Savoie—a man who bears a startling resemblance to his brother, whom Gentry thought he had killed during a drug raid three years earlier. Shaken, the agent enters Eva’s cabin and makes a bloody discovery: the old woman has been brutally murdered. With no jurisdiction over the case, he’s forced to leave the investigation to the local sheriff, until Eva’s beautiful heir, Celestine, receives a series of gruesome threats. As Gentry’s involvement deepens and more victims turn up, can he untangle the secrets behind Eva’s murder and protect Celestine from the same fate? Or will an old family curse finally have its way? Cody and the Mysteries of the Universe Tricia Springstubb Read by Natalie Ross Cody’s best friend, Spencer, and his parents are moving in with his grandmother right around the corner, and Cody can’t wait. For one thing, Cody needs Spencer to help solve the mystery of the never-seen Mr. Meen, who lives on the other side of the porch with a skull-and-crossbones sign in the window and an extermination truck out front. How’s Cody to know that a yellow jacket would sting her, making her scream “Ow! Ow!” just as they start spying? Or that the ominous window sign would change overnight to “Welcome home,” only deepening the mystery? In this second adventure, Spencer’s new-school jitters, an unexpected bonding with a teacher over Mozart, and turf-claiming kids next door with a reason for acting out are all part of Cody’s experiences as summer shifts into a new year at school. Golden Boys Sonya Hartnett Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, workingclass suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts—toys, bikes, all that glitters most—and makes them the envy of the neighborhood. To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family from a magazine, and Rex a hero—successful, attentive, attractive, always there to lend a hand. But to Colt he’s an impossible figure in a different way: unbearable, suffocating. Has Colt got Rex wrong, or has he seen something in his father that will destroy their fragile new lives? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 10 04/12/2016 NON-FICTION / Nature MP3-CD $29.99 9781480532106 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781480532083 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $97.99 9781480532113 04/12/2016 FICTION / Romance / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376310 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376303 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Heart of a Lion A Lone Cat's Walk Across America William Stolzenburg Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England’s forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a crosscountry odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. It was the farthest land-bound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain. William Stolzenburg retraces his two-year journey—from his embattled birthplace in the Black Hills, across the Great Plains and the Mississippi River, through Midwest metropolises and remote northern forests, to his tragic finale upon Connecticut’s Gold Coast. Along the way, the lion traverses lands with people gunning for his kind, as well as those championing his cause. Heart of a Lion is a story of one heroic creature pitting instinct against towering odds, coming home to a society deeply divided over his return. It is a testament to the resilience of nature, and a test of humanity’s willingness to live again beside the ultimate symbol of wildness. The Highlander's Vow A Loch Moigh Novel Barbara Longley Read by Luke Daniels On the eve of her wedding, Sky Elizabeth, the earl of Fife’s eldest daughter, learns of her betrothed’s murderous plot against her. As she flees, Sky falls through a mysterious portal in time, landing at the feet of a twenty-firstcentury American knight. Struan, the bastard son of the earl of Sutherland, escaped death through time’s portal once. Recognizing what has befallen the frightened woman, he vows to protect her even while Sky, with a trace of fae blood in her veins, senses his resentment. Despite their growing attraction, she’s determined to find a way home to avert a clan war. Though he cannot deny his desire, he fears that helping her return to the past will surely lead to his demise. As the two work together, passion ignites and an unbreakable bond forms—but will it be enough to sustain them through the perils they’ll face in the past? Can their love have a future? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 11 04/12/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376136 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376129 It Had to Be Fate An It Had To Be Novel Tamra Baumann Read by Kate Rudd Falling for a bad-boy rock star is the last thing single mother Casey AndersonBovier should do. Embroiled in a custody battle with her ex, Casey is fighting to raise her boys in their quaint Colorado hometown—a secret haven for celebrities. But when it comes to her hotel’s newest guest, Casey can’t connect the dots. Is Zane Steele the out-of-control rocker plastered all over the media, or the captivating man with a killer smile who’s charming her and her two boys? Zane has a good reason for letting the world believe the worst of him—and that’s a secret he’s sure he can never share…until he meets Casey. After years of having fans fall at his feet, he’s found the one woman who brings him to his knees. Casey is beautiful and intriguing—and thoroughly justified in not trusting him one bit, especially with her family at stake. But the only way to be together is to convince her to take a chance on him, on fate, and on their crazy, unexpected love. 04/12/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables Ages 7-10 Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans! MP3-CD $23.99 9781511372077 From a smelly watering hole deep in the heart of the Serengeti to the ferocious clamor of the Colosseum, join Julius Zebra and his motley menagerie of friends as they gear up to be...GLADIATORS! Only if they win the love of the Roman crowds will they win back their freedom. But do Julius and his pals have what it takes to succeed in a world where only the meanest and toughest survive? Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511372060 Gary Northfield Read by Nick Podehl Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781511372084 04/12/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365697 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365680 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Kindred A Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery Steve Robinson Read by Simon Vance Jefferson Tayte is good at finding people who don’t want to be found. For years he has followed faint genealogical trails to reunite families—and uncover long-hidden secrets. But Tayte is a loner, a man with no ties of his own; his true identity is the most elusive case of his career. But that could all be about to change. Now Tayte has in his possession the beginnings of a new trail—clues his late mentor had started to gather—that APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 12 might at last lead to his own family. With Professor Jean Summer, his partner in genealogical sleuthing, he travels to Munich to pick up the scent. But the hunt takes them deep into dangerous territory: the sinister secrets of Hitler’s Germany, and those who must keep them buried at any cost. When their investigations threaten to undermine a neo-Nazi organisation, Tayte and Summer know time is running out. Can they find their way to the dark heart of a deadly history before they become its latest victims? 04/12/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction MP3-CD $14.99 9781511327176 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511327169 04/12/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense MP3-CD $35.99 9781501223822 Unabridged CD $65.99 9781501223808 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $128.99 9781501223815 Abridged CD $38.99 9781501223846 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice New Charity Blues Camille Griep In the wake of a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is called the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity, enjoys the bounty of its hydroelectric dam and refuses City denizens so much as a drop of precious water. When City-dweller Cressyda inherits her father’s ranch within New Charity, she becomes intent on opening the dam to all—no matter the cost. But when Syd reunites with her old best friend, Casandra, a born seer and religious acolyte, she realizes that her plans could destroy the fragile lives they’ve built in order to survive. What’s more, the strange magic securing the dam’s operations could prove deadly if disturbed. Yet when Syd discovers evidence that her father might have been murdered, she is more determined than ever to exact revenge on New Charity’s corrupt. Pitted against Cas, as well as her own family, Syd must decide how to secure the survival of both settlements without tipping them over the brink to utter annihilation. In this intense and emotional reimagining of the Trojan War epic, two women clash when loyalty, identity, community, and family are all put to the ultimate test. The Obsession Nora Roberts Read by Shannon McManus Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up—especially the determined Xander Keaton. Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. But as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 13 04/12/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $29.99 9781511335829 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511335805 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511335812 04/12/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374606 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374590 04/12/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511370752 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511370745 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Sunset City Melissa Ginsburg Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte’s life unravels and she descends into the city’s underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers, and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in the years they were estranged. Ginsburg’s Houston is part of a lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly. In this shadowy world, culpability and sympathy blur in a debut novel which thrillingly brings its three female protagonists to the fore. The Vow Felicity Goodrich Read by Carly Robins It happens in the chill of a September night, 1939: Their small Polish village is raided, burned to the ground. Anna, a devoutly Catholic teenager, watches as her friend is shot, as her father is dragged off for conscription in the German army. Szymon, the young village priest, stands silently with his parishioners as their church is ransacked and torched. Anna clings to him—her dear friend and confidant—and by some luck, the Germans spare them. Five Septembers later, Anna and Szymon still cling together, now amid the turmoil of war. Though Anna dreads her engagement to a local ruffian and Szymon fears for his father’s life back home, the two find solace in their friendship. But when the Soviet army comes to “liberate” them, Anna endures an unspeakable atrocity and Szymon suffers his own tragedy. Now bound even more tightly by the sorrows they carry, they face a choice: honor the vows they’ve made to others or risk everything for the chance at salvation in each other. When Shadows Come Vincent Zandri Read by Christopher Lane As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Nick Angel has seen a lot. But now he sees almost nothing after being struck with PTSD-related blindness resulting from the trauma of his last tour. In an attempt to put the past behind him, he travels to Venice, Italy, with his fiancée, Grace, to recover, reconnect, and rekindle their love. Despite his physical and emotional setbacks, Nick senses something dangerously amiss in Venice, and his hunch proves right when Grace is abducted right in front of him. Because all he can see are horrific visions in his APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 14 mind’s eye of the village casualties from his last mission, Nick will have to rely on his other heightened senses to discover what happened to his fiancée. To find the truth, he must be willing to open his eyes to the tragedies of his past and the ghosts that haunt him. 04/15/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $29.99 9781511370912 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511370905 04/19/2016 NON-FICTION / Science MP3-CD $35.99 9781480560369 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781480560345 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $105.99 9781480560376 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Winning Well A Manager's Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul Karin Hurt & David Dye Read by Christopher Lane It can feel like a rigged game. Executives set impossible goals, so managers drive their teams to burnout trying to deliver. Employees demand connection and support, so managers focus on relationships and fail to make the numbers. The fallout is stress, frustration, and disengagement, and not just among team members—two-thirds of managers report being disengaged. To succeed, managers need balance: they must push people to achieve while creating an environment that makes them truly want to. Winning Well offers a quick, practical action plan—complete with examples, stories, online assessments, and more—for getting the results you need. Managers learn how to: • Stamp out the corrosive win-at-all-costs mentality • Focus on the game, not just the score • Reinforce behaviors that produce results • Set clear expectations—delegating outcomes rather than focusing on process • Celebrate even small successes • Correct poor performance using the INSPIRE accountability method • Demonstrate confidence and humility • Energize teams to sustain excellent performance • And more Algorithms to Live By The Computer Science of Human Decisions Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 15 with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living. 04/19/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction MP3-CD $14.99 9781511318419 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511318402 04/19/2016 FICTION / Romance / Erotica MP3-CD $22.99 9781511375122 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511375115 Chains of Command Marko Kloos The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens’ seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers—all while dulling his searing memories of battle with alcohol and meds. Knowing Earth’s uneasy respite won’t last, the North American Commonwealth and its Sino-Russian allies hurtle toward two dangerous options: hit the Lanky forces on Mars or go after deserters who stole a fleet of invaluable warships critical to winning the war. Assigned to a small special ops recon mission to scout out the renegades’ stronghold on a distant moon, Grayson and his wife, dropship pilot Halley, again find themselves headed for the crucible of combat—and a shattering new campaign in the war for humanity’s future. Dirtiest Secret Dirtiest Trilogy (Book 1) J. Kenner Read by Lucy Rivers A sizzling-hot new romance trilogy from the author who has “cornered the market on sinfully attractive dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for him” (RT Book Reviews). Set in the popular Stark world, featuring the beautiful billionaire Dallas Sykes who was introduced to readers in the Stark International trilogy. Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511375139 04/19/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374545 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374538 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Doing It Over A Most Likely To Novel Catherine Bybee Voted Most Likely to Succeed, Melanie Bartlett ended up anything but. The down-on-her-luck single mom wants a complete do-over—is that too much to ask? With her family long gone from River Bend, strong, independent Mel is as surprised as anyone to end up in the quaint small town she once called home. But with her friends, Jo and Zoe, by her side, and a comfortable room at Miss Gina’s quirky bed-and-breakfast, she just might have turned the corner on a new life. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 16 Wyatt Gibson never liked the big city. River Bend suits the ruggedly handsome builder just fine. Wyatt knows he’s home, even if that means being charmed by the appearance of Melanie and her spunky, adorable daughter. Is Wyatt’s calm devotion—even amid a coming storm—enough to convince Mel she may have found a home to call her own, a family that never leaves, and a true love to last a lifetime? 04/19/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $35.99 9781469221120 Unabridged CD $49.99 9781469221076 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $110.99 9781469221106 Fall of Light The Kharkanas Trilogy (Book 2) Steven Erikson **Canadian author** Steven Erikson ret urns to the Malazan world with the second novel in a dark and revelatory new epic fantasy trilogy, one that takes place a millennium before the events in his New York Times bestselling Malazan Book of the Fallen. It’s a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, the realm of Darkness, where Mother Dark reigns. But this ancient land was once home to many a power…and even death is not quite eternal. The commoners’ great hero, Vatha Urusander, is being promoted by his followers to take Mother Dark’s hand in marriage, but her Consort, Lord Draconus, stands in the way of such ambitions. The impending clash sends fissures throughout the realm. As rumors of civil war burn through the masses, an ancient power emerges from the long dead seas. Caught in the middle of it all are the First Sons of Darkness, Anomander, Andarist, and Silchas Ruin of the Purake Hold.… **Steven Erikson was born in Toronto and grew up in Winnipeg. 04/19/2016 FICTION / Romance / New Adult Frozen MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376228 There’s one must-have toy this Christmas, and Neala Clarke has told her niece Charli she’ll get it for her. Never mind that she’s got less than a week and it looks like everywhere is sold out. She’s promised Charli a Fire Princess doll— and Neala is a woman of her word. Darcy Hart is a people-pleaser. So when his adorable six-year-old nephew, Dustin, asks for a particular doll at the last minute, he says yes. Luckily for Darcy, there’s one left in stock at the local toy store. Unluckily for Darcy, he’s not the only person who wants it—and his rival is the one woman who’s immune to his charms. Neala and Darcy have loved to hate each other since they were kids, and they’re both willing to do whatever it takes to get that doll. This can’t possibly end well for both of them…can it? Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376211 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice L.A. Casey APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 17 04/19/2016 FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal MP3-CD $22.99 9781480594142 Nettle King A Night and Nothing Novel Katherine Harbour Read by Kate Rudd Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781480594104 The mesmerizing conclusion to the Night and Nothing series—part Buffy the Vampire Slayer and part Alice in Wonderland—finds Finn fighting against the land of the dead. When her beloved Jack disappears, Finn vows to find him–even if it means a daring odyssey into the land of the dead. But saving Jack comes at a terrible price: a dangerous fissure has opened, giving the dead access to the true world. The lines between worlds are more blurred than ever. Finn’s sister, Lily, recently returned from the Ghostlands, seems to bear no scars from her time there. But then their friend Moth returns from Sombrus, the magical house once owned by Seth Lot, bearing shocking news. Something evil–a fearsome creature bearing a striking resemblance to Jack–has escaped Sombrus and is now stalking Fair Hollow, killing everyone it encounters, transforming them into terrifying Jacks and Jills and recruiting the Unseelie. It will not stop until it gets what it wants.…Finn. 04/19/2016 FICTION / Mystery Raven Sisters Unabridged CD $29.99 9781480594098 MP3-CD $14.99 9781511372497 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511372480 04/19/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $35.99 9781511367875 Unabridged CD $41.99 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice A Fran Oberwieser Mystery (Book 2) Gabi Kreslehner, translated by Alison Layland Read by Laural Merlington Gertrud and her foster sister, Hanna, used to be inseparable. But as the years pass, Hanna becomes the beautiful one while Gertrud remains plain. Their once unbreakable bond is strained by jealousy—until Gertrud is brutally murdered and Hanna disappears without a trace. When uncompromising homicide detective Franza Oberwieser picks up the women’s eerie cases, she begins to pull back the veils over their shared history. Each layer reveals a new and more disturbing truth. Everyone in the family is holding their secrets close, and the deeper Franza digs, the darker they appear. With a mysterious man following her every move—and the nagging distraction of her own recent heartache—can Franza uncover the sisters’ fate before the case turns cold? Success and Luck Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy Robert H. Frank How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 18 9781511367868 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $89.99 9781511367882 04/19/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365840 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365833 04/26/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374699 Unabridged CD $22.99 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine. In Success and Luck, bestselling author and New York Times economics columnist Robert Frank explores the surprising implications of those findings to show why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in success—and why that hurts everyone, even the wealthy. Frank describes how, in a world increasingly dominated by winner-take-all markets, chance opportunities and trivial initial advantages often translate into much larger ones—and enormous income differences—over time; how false beliefs about luck persist, despite compelling evidence against them; and how myths about personal success and luck shape individual and political choices in harmful ways. But, Frank argues, we could decrease the inequality driven by sheer luck by adopting simple, unintrusive policies that would free up trillions of dollars each year—more than enough to fix our crumbling infrastructure, expand healthcare coverage, fight global warming, and reduce poverty, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. If this sounds implausible, you'll be surprised to discover that the solution requires only a few, uncontroversial steps. Where We Fall Rochelle B. Weinstein Read by Kate Rudd, Whitney Dukhouse, Tanya Eby & Scott Merriman By all accounts, Abby Holden has it all. She’s the mother of a beautiful teenager and the wife of a beloved high school football coach. And all it took to achieve her charmed life was her greatest act of betrayal. Coach Ryan can coax his team to victory, but he can’t seem to make his wife, Abby, happy. Her struggles with depression have marred their marriage and taken a toll on their daughter, Juliana. Although this isn’t the life he’s dreamed of, he’s determined to heal the rifts in his family. Chasing waterfalls and documenting their beauty has led photographer Lauren Sheppard all around the world. Now it has brought her back home to the mountains of North Carolina—back to the scene of her devastating heartbreak. For the first time in seventeen years, a trio of once-inseparable friends find themselves confronting past loves, hurts, and the rapid rush of a current that still pulls them together.… The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar Aimee Alexander Read by Alana Kerr Collins Lucy Arigho’s first encounter with Greg Millar is far from promising, but she soon realises he possesses a charm that is impossible to resist. Just eight whirlwind weeks after their first meeting, level-headed career girl Lucy is seriously considering his pleas to marry him and asking herself if she could really be stepmother material. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 19 9781511374682 But before Lucy can make a final decision about becoming part of Greg’s world, events plunge her right into it. On holiday in the South of France, things start to unravel. Her future stepchildren won’t accept her, the interfering nanny resents her, and they’re stuck in a heat wave that won’t let up. And then there’s Greg. His behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and Lucy begins to wonder whether his larger-than-life personality hides something darker—and whether she knows him at all. 04/26/2016 FICTION / Romance Best of My Love MP3-CD $19.99 9781491504604 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781491504574 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $76.99 9781491504598 04/26/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374453 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374446 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice A Fool’s Gold Series Susan Mallery To overcome her painful past, baker Shelby Gilmore goes on the hunt for a friend—a male friend—to convince her stubborn psyche that men can be trusted. But where in a town as small as Fool’s Gold will the petite blonde find a guy willing to not date her? Dark, charming Aidan Mitchell puts the “adventure” in Mitchell Adventure Tours…and into the beds of his many willing female tourists. Until he realizes he’s inadvertently become that guy—the one-night Casanova—and worse, everyone in town knows it. Maybe Shelby’s boy/girl experiment will help him see women as more than just conquests so he can change his ways and win back his self-respect. As Aidan and Shelby explore the secret lives of men and women, the heat between them fires up the Fool’s Gold rumor mill. If no one will believe they’re just friends, maybe they should give the gossips something to really talk about! Broken Angels Gemma Liviero Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother’s desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan child. Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope in the other stolen children to make her dreams of escape a reality. Willem, a high-ranking Nazi doctor, plans to save lives when he takes posts in both the ghetto and Auschwitz. After witnessing unimaginable cruelties, he begins to question his role and the future of those he is ordered to destroy. While Hitler ransacks Europe in pursuit of a pure German race, the lives of three broken souls—thrown together by chance—intertwine. Only love and sacrifice might make them whole again. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 20 04/26/2016 FICTION / Supernatural MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376167 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376150 04/26/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $22.99 9781501201387 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781501201356 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781501201363 04/26/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376044 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376037 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Emily Carpenter Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she’s meant to play in it. The Drowning Girls Paula Treick DeBoard Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever since she and her family moved in, she's felt like an outsider amongst the Stepford-like wives and their obnoxiously spoiled children. Still, she's determined to make it work—if not for herself, then for her husband, Phil, who landed them this lavish home in the first place, and for her daughter, Danielle, who's about to enter high school. Yet underneath the glossy veneer of The Palms, life is far from idyllic. In a place where reputation is everything, Liz soon discovers that even the friendliest residents can't be trusted—and almost everyone has secrets they'd do anything to protect. So when the gorgeous girl next door befriends Danielle, Liz can't help but find sophisticated Kelsey's interest in her shy and slightly nerdy daughter a bit suspicious. But while Kelsey quickly becomes a fixture in the McGinnis home, Liz's relationships with both Danielle and Phil grow strained. Now even her own family seems to be hiding things, and it's not long before their dream of living the high life quickly spirals out of control.… Everyone Pays Seth Harwood Before joining homicide, Detective Clara Donner spent years on vice alongside the runaways and vulnerable women who walk San Francisco’s streets. She thinks she’s seen the worst things people can do—until she’s assigned to investigate a particularly ruthless serial killer. As the body count rises and a pattern emerges—each victim is known for his brutal abuse of women—Donner follows the killer’s trail across the city. In spite of a nagging sense that the world may be better off without these men, she pursues every lead. When Donner finds a damaged girl with links to both APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 21 the killer and his prey, she wonders if this new witness is the key to unraveling these murders or another victim left in the killer’s wake. 04/26/2016 FICTION / Suspense MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375832 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375825 04/26/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511327268 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511327251 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Ghost of Africa Don Brobst Together New York City surgeon Paul Branson and his wife, Nicki, had a dream: to help the people of the African bush. After Nicki’s untimely death, Paul decides to honor her memory and carry on alone. In South Sudan, he channels grief into hope, caring for villagers and working to save Leza, a little girl with leukemia who has captured his heart. Meanwhile, Jason Quinn, terrorist leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, has deadly plans for the people of South Sudan. But he needs information to carry out his plot—information from research Paul did for the US government years ago. Quinn will stop at nothing to obtain this secret intelligence, even kidnap a dying child. Now, in order to save the ailing Leza and stop a genocide, Paul must go beyond his medical training to journey into a world of brutal terrorism and global intrigue. With only instinct and his faith as guides, how far will he go to save the lives of thousands? His Darling Bride An Echoes of the Heart Novel Anna DeStefano Read by Amy McFadden A mysterious stranger, Mike helps scare off Bethany’s obnoxious exboyfriend. Mike’s touch feels like coming home. But Bethany’s so not interested. Between stalled-out dreams of becoming a painter, troubles reconnecting with her sprawling foster family, and the happy chaos of her sister’s upcoming wedding, Bethany’s already in over her head. But each time she and Mike stumble across each other in small-town Chandlerville…sparks fly. A famous photographer hiding under a Stetson, Mike Taylor recognizes Bethany as a kindred artistic spirit. Together they rekindle her passion for painting—and she inspires him in unexpected, undeniable ways. Then when Mike’s own past threatens to tear apart his present, Bethany becomes his safe place to turn. Can these two wandering souls finally trust their hearts? Or will they run from the forever love they never expected to find? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 22 04/26/2016 NON-FICTION / Self-Help MP3-CD $14.99 9781511329156 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511329149 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $73.99 9781511329163 04/26/2016 FICTION / Fantasy / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374422 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374415 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You Albert Ellis, Ph.D. & Raymond Chip Tafrate, Ph.D. Read by Tom Parks Anger is universal. Unchecked, it can cause lasting damage in our lives: wrecked relationships, lost jobs, even serious disease. Yet in these increasingly stressful times, all of us have acted in anger—and often wished we hadn’t. Is there a way that really works to solve problems and assert ourselves without being angry? The answer is a resounding yes, if you follow the breakthrough steps of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). This proven approach, developed by world renowned psychotherapist Dr. Albert Ellis, has withstood the test of time, helping countless people deal effectively with emotional problems. Using easy-to-master instructions and exercises, this classic book will show you how to apply REBT techniques to understand the roots and nature of your anger, and take control of and reduce angry reactions. Here you will discover: • The rational and irrational aspects of anger • Special insights into your self-angering beliefs • How to think, feel, and act your way out of anger • How to relax • How to accept yourself with your anger • And much more Jilo A Witching Savannah Novel J. D. Horn 1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the “beautiful woman with a dirty face,” its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption. Young Jilo—fiercely independent, intelligent, and ambitious, but thwarted by Savannah’s maddeningly genteel version of bigotry—finds herself forced to embrace a dark power that has pursued her family for generations, an ancient magic that may prove her salvation…or her undoing. Explore the fascinating history of one of the Witching Savannah series’ most vivid and beloved characters, as the resourceful and determined Jilo comes of age, strives to master formidable magical skills in the face of overwhelming adversity, and forges her strange destiny against the turbulent backdrop of the civil rights struggle in the American South. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 23 05/31/2016 NON-FICTION / Self-Help MP3-CD $22.99 9781511364737 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511364706 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $65.97 9781511364713 04/26/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 9-12 MP3-CD $24.99 9781511371827 Unabridged CD $32.99 9781511371810 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $76.99 9781511371834 04/26/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 12 and up MP3-CD $14.99 9781511372251 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511372244 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Joy of Less Francine Jay Francine Jay pioneered the simple living movement with her self-published bestseller, The Joy of Less. In this fully redesigned and repackaged edition— featuring never-before-seen content—Jay brings her philosophy to more readers who are eager to declutter. Rather than the "crash diet" approach found in other tidying up books, Jay shares simple steps to cultivate a minimalist mindset and form new habits, paving the way to lasting success. Her easy-to-follow STREAMLINE method works in any space—from a single drawer to a closet, room, or entire house. What's more, it can be called upon during clutter-inducing life events such as moving, getting married, having kids, or downsizing. The Joy of Less is a refreshing and relatable approach to decluttering that belongs in every home. The Most Important Thing Stories About Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers Avi Read by Todd Haberkorn Luke sees the ghost of his father but can’t figure out what Dad wants him to do. Paul takes a camping trip with the grandfather he’s just met and discovers what lies behind the man’s erratic behavior. Ryan has some surprising questions when he interviews his prospective stepfather for the job. In a compellingly honest collection of stories, multiple-award-winning author Avi introduces seven boys—boys with fathers at home and boys whose fathers have left, boys who spend most of their time with their grandfathers and boys who would rather spend time with anyone but the men in their lives. By turns heartbreaking, hopeful, and funny, the stories show us boys seeking acceptance, guidance, or just someone to look up to. Each one shines a different light on the question “What is the most important thing a father can do for his son?” Piece of Infinity The Curse Trilogy (Book 3) Emily Bold, translated by Jaime McGill Read by Justine Eyre In the third and final volume of Emily Bold’s The Curse Series, Sam returns to the present day from seventeenth-century Scotland, reunited with her love, Payton, and relieved that the curse has been lifted. But their happiness is tempered by Sam’s unsettling feeling that all is not yet right. Overburdened with the guilt she feels for unwittingly causing the curse that destroyed Payton’s life for nearly three centuries, Sam is determined to return to the past to fix it. Fearing that the love of his life will want to remain with his past self, Payton follows Sam into history, desperate to bring her back to the present—and to the new life they’ve made together. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 24 As the past and present clash, the two lovers face the most difficult choice of their lives: allow their history to remain as it was, with all its dangers, injustices, and pain, or fight to improve it—and risk the very love that binds them together. 04/26/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375863 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375856 04/26/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391559 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391542 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Red Knight Falling A Harmony Black Novel Craig Schaefer FBI agent Harmony Black and her team, Vigilant Lock, face a new type of threat: one from beyond the stars. They’d always heard the Red Knight was an urban legend: in 1954, three years before Sputnik launched, a mysterious satellite was sighted circling Earth, though no power on the planet had such technology. But the Red Knight is real, and what’s more, it’s inextricably linked to a supernatural force no one yet understands. Like a moth to a flame, this dark presence collides annually with the airborne satellite. Except this year the Red Knight is on course to crash-land…in Oregon. Vigilant Lock sets out to find the crash site and secure the remnants before the mysterious power is drawn to Earth. But they soon discover the mission is far from straightforward—and they aren’t the only ones tracking the Red Knight. To stop a deadly occult threat, Harmony and her team must use all their resources: technology and sorcery, science and magic. Fortunately, Harmony has only begun to discover her growing power. Something More Than This Barbie Bohrman Katy Lewis has it all: a sports reporting job she loves, a great roommate, and two brothers who, while nosy, always have her back. But when Conner Roberts, Katy’s unrequited first crush, suddenly shows up—and shows interest—after nine years, she reverts to a sweaty, panicked sixteen-year-old once more. And if trying to read Conner’s signals isn’t tough enough, Katy’s heart is sending some mixed messages of its own. When a beautiful blonde coworker starts pursuing Katy’s boss, Dylan Sterling—her longtime mentor and friend— she realizes she may have a problem with that. A reunion with Conner is what she’s dreamed of for so long…so why can’t she stop thinking about Dylan? For the first time ever, Katy must fact-check her heart. Should she go after the guy she thought she always wanted or see if there’s something more with the one who’s been there all along? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 25 04/26/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $17.99 9781501259944 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781501259951 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781501259937 04/26/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 8-12 MP3-CD $22.99 9781511371254 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511371247 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781511371230 05/01/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511359290 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511359283 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Treasured A Perfect Destinies Novel Sherryl Woods Read by Teri Schnaubelt Despite the wealth and power of his remarkable family, Ben Carlton stayed hidden away in rural Virginia with only his artistic talent and his troubled memories for company. But when he met beautiful gallery owner Kathleen Dugan at the urging of his matchmaking aunt Destiny, his wounded heart began to open—yet he couldn't completely forget the tragedies of his past. Vivacious, driven Kathleen was intrigued not only by Ben's paintings, but also by the handsome, mysterious man who created them. Were Ben's wounds too deep for Kathleen to mend…or did Destiny create another perfect match? The Worst Night Ever A Class Trip Novel Dave Barry Read by Todd Haberkorn Last year, Wyatt Palmer was the hero of middle school, having foiled a plot against the president of the United States. But now he and his friends are in Coral Cove High School—home of the Fighting Conchs—and Wyatt is no longer a hero: He’s just another undersized freshman, hoping to fit in, or at least not be unpopular. Things start to go wrong when Matt Diaz, who is Wyatt's best friend but also unfortunately an idiot, decides to bring his pet ferret, Frank, to school. Through an unfortunate series of events Frank ends up in the hands of the Bevin brothers, who are the most popular boys at Coral Cove High, but are also, as Matt soon discovers, the nastiest. When Wyatt and Matt try to get Frank back, they concoct a plan to attend a party for the cool clique at the Bevin's waterfront mansion and stumble onto the Bevin family's dark and deadly secret. That’s when Wyatt learns that some things are worse than being unpopular in high school. MUCH worse. Blood Defense Marcia Clark Read by Tavia Gilbert Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile doublemurder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star—and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that would establish her as a heavy hitter in the world of criminal law. Though Sam has doubts about his innocence, she and her two associates (her closest childhood friend and a brilliant ex-con) take the case. Notorious APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 26 for living by her own rules—and fearlessly breaking everyone else’s— Samantha pulls out all the stops in her quest to uncover evidence that will clear the detective. But when a shocking secret at the core of the case shatters her personal world, Sam realizes that not only has her client been playing her, he might be one of the most dangerous sociopaths she’s ever encountered. 05/01/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Deliver Her MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374576 On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by grief, Alex starts cutting school and partying, growing increasingly detached. The future she’d planned with her friend is now meaningless to her. Meg Carmody is heartbroken for her daughter, even as she’s desperate to get Alex’s life back on track. The Birches, a boarding school in New Hampshire, promises to do just that, yet Alex refuses to go. But when Meg finds a bag of pills hidden in the house, she makes a fateful call to a transporter whose company specializes in shuttling troubled teens to places like The Birches, under strict supervision. Meg knows Alex will feel betrayed— as will her estranged husband, who knows nothing of Meg’s plans for their daughter. When the transport goes wrong—and Alex goes missing—Meg must face the consequences of her decision and her deception. But the hunt for Alex reveals that Meg is not the only one keeping secrets. Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374569 05/01/2016 FICTION / Action & Adventure MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365666 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365659 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Patricia Perry Donovan Golden Age The Shifting Tides (Book 1) James Maxwell Read by Simon Vance The discovery of a strange and superior warship sends Dion, youngest son of the king of Xanthos, and Chloe, a Phalesian princess, on a journey across the sea, where they are confronted by a kingdom far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. But they also find a place in turmoil, for the ruthless sun king, Solon, is dying. In order to gain entrance to heaven, Solon is building a tomb—a pyramid clad in gold—and has scoured his own empire for gold until there’s no more to be found. Now Solon’s gaze turns to Chloe’s homeland, Phalesia, and its famous sacred ark, made of solid gold. The legends say it must never be opened, but Solon has no fear of foreigners’ legends or even their armies. And he isn’t afraid of the eldren, an ancient race of shape-shifters, long ago driven into the Wilds. For when he gets the gold, Solon knows he will live forever. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 27 05/01/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511359207 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511359191 05/03/2016 NON-FICTION / Health & Fitness MP3-CD $19.99 9781511343251 Unabridged CD $31.99 9781511343244 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Secret Healer Ellin Carsta, translated by Terry Laster Read by Angela Dawe In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant to the city’s trusted midwife, Clara. Working alongside Clara, Madlen develops a surprisingly soothing technique and quickly becomes a talented healer. After Clara’s tragic death, Madlen alone rushes to assist the birth of a local nobleman’s child. But rather than the joy of birth, Madlen walks into an accusation of murder and witchcraft because of her extraordinary gifts. Forced to flee her own town, she establishes a new identity in the home of her aunt. Yet even though it endangers her life, she cannot resist the urge to help the sick patients who seek out her miraculous treatment. When she meets handsome Johannes—an investigator hired by the Church to bring her to justice for sacrilegious acts—she becomes drawn to the very man that could destroy her. Will Madlen’s gifts bring about her downfall? Or can love and reason prevail in a time of fearful superstition? Aging Backwards Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day Miranda Esmonde-White Read by Sandra Burr PBS fitness personality on Classical Stretch and creator of the fitness phenomenon Essentrics, Miranda Esmonde-White offers an eye-opening guide to anti-aging that provides essential tools to help anyone turn back the clock and look and feel younger no matter what age. Miranda Esmonde-White trains everyone from prima ballerinas to professional hockey players to Cerebral palsy patients: what do they all have in common? All of these people are hoping to heal their bodies, prevent further injury, and move optimally and without pain. In fact, they have the same goals as any of us who are trying to stay young, fit, and reverse the hands of time. Because the aging of our bodies occurs in our cells, it must be repaired there too—that’s where Miranda’s highly effective and sought-after techniques come in. The body is programmed to self-destruct as we age, but the speed at which it self-destructs is up to us. Recent scientific studies have proven this fact! In Aging Backwards, Miranda offers a groundbreaking guide on how to maintain and repair our cells, through scientifically designed workouts. Healthy cells prevent joint pain, muscle loss and weak bones—helping to control weight, increase energy, and improve strength and mobility. Miranda offers readers of all ages the tools they need to look and feel young. Complete with tips, tools, and her Eight Basic Age-Reversing Workouts APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 28 accompanied by instructional photos and web clips, Aging Backwards will help you grow younger, not older! 05/03/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women MP3-CD $35.99 9781455833634 Unabridged CD $54.99 9781455833214 Lib. E. Unabridged CD $110.99 9781455833351 The Apartment Danielle Steel Read by Dan John Miller A memorable ensemble cast of four young women who share a beautiful loft apartment in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen and experience the glamour and challenges of city life, love, and career in this irresistible contemporary story. Four young women’s lives intersect in the apartment they’ve shared in Hell’s Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they’d lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances will test the strength of their bond in and outside the loft that had become their home. Abridged CD $35.99 9781455833498 05/03/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511359023 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511359016 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Cold Dream Dawning Pale Queen Series A. R. Kahler Read by Amy McFadden Though trained as a ruthless and efficient killer, Claire barely survived her last assignment. Still reeling from the summoning of the deadly Pale Queen and Roxie’s betrayal, she’s unprepared for Queen Mab’s next demand: to help uncover a new threat to the kingdom, Claire must hunt down the mortal mother she’s never known. But Claire’s divided loyalties may be the least of her worries: her mother, the former star of the Immortal Circus, has other enemies—including the Summer King. To save the Winter Kingdom from the Pale Queen’s dark designs, Claire must attempt to awaken her mother’s hidden magic. But even if she succeeds, is there magic potent enough to protect her from the dangers lurking in the treacherous forests of the Wildness—or from the shadows in her own heart? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 29 05/03/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $25.99 9781491553138 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781491553114 Lib. Ed. Unabridged Cd $84.99 9781491553121 05/03/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365963 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365956 05/03/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy Ages 12 and up MP3-CD $35.99 9781480556966 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781480556959 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Dominated Maya Banks In Drake’s shadowy world, his enemies would exploit any weakness he had in order to bring him to his knees, and so he’s never allowed himself to care about anyone…never exhibited any vulnerability, and it made him a force to be reckoned with. Until Evangeline—his angel. A woman who slipped past his defenses like no one had ever managed. She was his to protect and ultimately, to do that, he had to do the unthinkable and drive the only good thing in his world away. Devastated and destroyed, Evangeline doesn’t know what made Drake turn on her in such a shocking manner. She only knows she’ll never be the same. He once freed her from all her inhibitions, only now she is a prisoner to never-ending pain. But when Drake finds her again, she realizes there is more to his world than she ever imagined, and she must decide if she can once more trust—and submit—to the man who holds her wounded heart in his hands. And he must convince her of just how far he’ll go to regain her love and forgiveness. Don't Say a Word Stranger Series Jennifer Jaynes Death has always stalked single mother Allie Callahan. For the first time in her life, she has found a fragile sort of happiness living a quiet, peaceful existence in East Texas with her young son, Sammy, and her adoptive mother. Still, Allie fears she may be susceptible to the same mental illness that destroyed her mother and serial-killer brother. Her thoughts are haunted by the idea that she could become incapable of caring for Sammy. When twelve-year-old twins Zoe and Carrie arrive on her doorstep late one night, their parents slain in a vicious double homicide, Allie’s strength and sanity are put to the test. What did the twins see on the night of their parents’ horrific murder? They are too frightened to say. Soon faced with a series of menacing phone calls, a rising body count, and the pressure of keeping the girls and her own son safe, Allie fears she’ll lose both her mind and her family once and for all. The Glass Republic The Skyscraper Throne Trilogy (Book 2) Tom Pollock Read by Alison Larkin Pen's life is about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of Pen's intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly; and the most closely guarded secret of all: Parva, her mirror-sister, forged from her reflections in a school bathroom mirror. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 30 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $89.99 9781480556973 Pen's reflected twin is the only girl who really understands her. Then Parva is abducted and Pen makes a terrible bargain to track her down. In LondonUnder-Glass, looks are currency, and Pen's scars make her a rare and valuable commodity. But some in the reflected city will do anything to keep Pen from the secret of what happened to the sister who shared her face. 05/03/2016 FICTION / Romance / Historical Ransomed Jewels MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613336 With her husband’s dying words, “My marchioness has it,” the Marchioness of Huntingdon is thrown into a nightmare of intrigue and danger. But even those who are holding her brother ransom can’t force her to do the impossible—hand over a necklace she doesn’t have. Major Samuel Bennett believes the newly widowed Lady Claire Huntingdon is a traitor. He intends to get the necklace he’s convinced she has, before sending her to the gallows. But when he meets the captivating widow, he discovers that nothing is as it seems. Claire knows she can’t trust anyone, but she isn’t given a choice when Major Bennett arrives, demanding she give him the necklace. And it isn’t until she’s forced to put her life in his hands that she realizes it isn’t only her life she’s in danger of losing—but her heart as well. Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522613329 05/03/2016 FICTION / Romance / Paranormal MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391764 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391757 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Laura Landon Savage Urges The Phoenix Pack Series Suzanne Wright As a volunteer at a shelter for lone shifters—the same one that rescued her— Makenna Wray has dedicated her life to finding homes for its residents. And when she discovers that a teen in her care is related to Ryan Conner, the broody, handsome-as-sin enforcer of the Phoenix Pack, she’s eager to help connect the two. She just wasn’t prepared to feel a connection of her own. Lone wolves are loners for a reason—and most of them bad. Or so Ryan assumes until he meets the mysterious Makenna. Quirky and sensual, she seems to enjoy riling him, especially when she refuses to discuss her past. Although there is no mating bond, he’s sure she’s the one. All he has to do is be patient and wait. But when another pack’s sinister Alpha comes sniffing around, threatening Makenna and her shelter, this enforcer is ready to let his wolf off the leash.… APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 31 05/03/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365574 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365567 05/03/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $29.99 9781501230479 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781501230462 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $97.99 9781501230486 05/10/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613459 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522613442 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin A Happy Gilmour Novel David Black Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating—and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife. So when Radegonde is sent on a mission to Martinique, it’s vital that these proud men learn to work together, especially as it seems everyone from Churchill to de Gaulle—not to mention Hitler—has a stake in the outcome. Will Harry be able to navigate these dangerous waters safely and return with hard-won wisdom, or will old enemies arise to sink him? TED Talks The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking Chris Anderson Amid today’s proliferating channels of instant communication, one singular skill has emerged as the most essential way to communicate: a brief, polished, live-audience video talk. Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has tapped the world’s most brilliant individuals to share their expertise. Anderson discovered early on that the key to getting an audience to sit up and pay attention is to condense a presentation into 18 minutes or less, and to heighten its impact with a powerful narrative. In other words, to tell a terrific story. TED Talks is chock full of personal presentation suggestions from such TED notables as Sir Ken Robinson, Mary Roach, Amy Cuddy, Bill Gates, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dan Gilbert, Matt Ridley, and dozens more—everything from how to distill your speech’s content to what you should wear on stage. This is a lively, fun read with great practical application from the man who knows what goes into a great speech. Along Came Mr. Right Gerri Russell Olivia Tyler loves helping foster children find their forever homes, but she’s still waiting for her forever love. Ever since her ex-boyfriend humiliated her on Facebook, she hasn’t been ready for a commitment. But on the night of the charity auction for her adoption agency, she gives in to temptation with a stranger who helps her out of a jam…and out of her bright-blue stilettos. After the most mind-blowing romantic night of her life, everything about Max Right seems perfect: he’s handsome, chivalrous, and he’s about to launch an algorithm-based matchmaking app with an extraordinary success APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 32 rate. But when Olivia finds out her mystery man is also someone else’s fiancé, no matter how much they seem to click, this romance doesn’t add up. For Olivia, unavailable means incompatible. When a troubled teen comes to both of them for help, Olivia is willing to put their differences aside temporarily. But as the three spend time together, she discovers the truth about Max’s heart, and it just may be the key to opening her own. 05/10/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376013 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376006 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / Technology & Engineering MP3-CD $35.99 9781511357678 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511357661 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $89.99 9781511357685 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Bad Action James Swain Con artist Billy Cunningham is no stranger to the casinos of Las Vegas—he’s ripped off every single one. But his latest scam—a year in the making— promises his crew their biggest payday yet. Billy has thought of everything down to the last detail…or so he thinks. He hasn’t counted on the father-son team of contract killers looking to cash in on Billy’s head. Or his old flame, Maggie Flynn, out for payback for her broken heart. If Billy and his team can pass themselves off as high rollers for a week straight, living it up in Vegas’s most exclusive suites and box seats, they’ll get their chance to make their VIP status permanent. It’s the biggest scam of their lives—if they live. Blockchain Revolution How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World Don Tapscott & Alex Tapscott Over 30 years, no theorist of the digital age has better explained the next big thing than Don Tapscott. For example, in Wikinomics Tapscott was the first to show how the Internet provides the first global platform for mass collaboration. Now, he writes about a profound technological shift that will change how the world does business—and everything else—using blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency Bitcoin. The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but is deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user's information anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. That means that your personal information is private and secure, while all activity is transparent and incorruptible— reconciled by mass collaboration and stored in code on a digital ledger. With its advent, we will not need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself. Although many opportunities for the blockchain require a digital currency, Bitcoin is only one application of this great innovation in computer science. The blockchain can hold any legal document, from deeds and marriage licenses to educational degrees and birth certificates. Call it the World Wide Ledger. It enables smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations, APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 33 decentralized government services, and transactions among other things. The Internet of Everything needs a Ledger of Everything: the blockchain is a truly open, distributed, global platform that fundamentally changes what we can do online, how we do it, and who can participate. 05/10/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511366786 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511366779 By Helen's Hand Helen of Sparta Series Amalia Carosella Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her people from utter destruction. After defying her family and betraying her intended husband, she found peace with her beloved Theseus, the king of Athens and son of Poseidon. But peace did not last long. Cruelly separated from Theseus by the gods, and uncertain whether he will live or die, Helen is forced to return to Sparta. In order to avoid marriage to Menelaus, a powerful prince unhinged by desire, Helen assembles an array of suitors to compete for her hand. As the men circle like vultures, Helen dreams again of war—and of a strange prince, meant to steal her away. Every step she takes to protect herself and her people seems to bring destruction nearer. Without Theseus’s strength to support her, can Helen thwart the gods and stop her nightmare from coming to pass? 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Dystopian Ages 12 and up The Disappearance of Ember Crow MP3-CD $25.99 9781511372121 After a daring raid on Detention Center 3 to rescue their trapped peers, Ashala Wolf and her Tribe of fellow Illegals—children with powerful and inexplicable abilities—are once again entrenched in their safe haven, the Firstwood. Existing in alliance with the ancient trees and the giant intelligent lizards known as saurs, the young people of the Tribe do their best to survive and hide. But the new peace is fractured when Ashala’s friend Ember Crow goes missing, leaving only a cryptic message behind. Ember claims to be harboring terrible secrets about her past that could be a threat to the Tribe and all Illegals. Ashala and her boyfriend, Connor, spring into action, but with Ashala’s Sleepwalking ability functioning erratically and unknown enemies lying in wait, leaving the Firstwood is a dangerous proposition. Can Ashala and Connor protect the Tribe and bring Ember home, or must they abandon one to save the other? Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511372114 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $76.99 9781511372138 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Tribe Series (Book 2) Ambelin Kwaymullina APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 34 05/10/2016 FICTION / Thrillers MP3-CD $14.99 9781511372374 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511372367 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Sports MP3-CD $35.99 9781511305426 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511305419 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511305440 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice First Offense Marti Green Twelve-year-old Frankie Bishop is a model kid: quiet and bright. So everyone, especially his family, is shocked when he’s arrested for drug possession—and horrified when he’s sentenced to juvenile detention at Eldridge Academy. His uncle, Bruce Kantor of the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, wants to help but knows he’s too close to the case. His associate Dani Trumball has family worries of her own to deal with, but she knows Bruce wouldn’t ask for help without cause. Just as she and her team begin to investigate, the case gets even thornier: Frankie is missing, and evidence points to an Eldridge cover-up. As the FBI launches a hunt for the boy, Dani knows something isn’t right. Why would a minor’s first offense earn such a harsh punishment? Unconvinced by the court documents, Dani is dogged in her pursuit of the truth that will save Frankie’s future—if he still has one. Home Game Three Generations of Big-League Stories from Baseball's First Family Bret Boone & Kevin Cook Bret Boone made history in 1992 as the first third-generation major leaguer in baseball history. A five-foot-ten firecracker who was spurned by scouts for his small size, supposed lack of power, and temper tantrums (one scout called him a “helmet-throwing terror”), Bret didn’t care about family legacy; he wanted to make his own way. He did just that, building a 14-year career that included three all-star appearances, four Gold Gloves, a bout with alcoholism, and the ignominy of being traded for the infamous “player to be named later.” Now that he’s coaching minor leaguers half his age, and his 15-yearold son has the potential to be a fourth-generation major leaguer, Bret is ready to reflect on and tell the story of baseball from the perspective of his family’s 70-year history in the sport. Combining the brashness and candor of Ball Four with a dollop of Big Russ and Me sentiment, this book will trace the evolution of the game—on the field and behind the scenes—from Ray Boone’s era in the 1950s to Bret and Aaron’s era in the 90s and 2000s, when players made millions, dined on lobster in the clubhouse, injected themselves with PEDs, and had their choice of “Annies”—female clingers-on, or as today’s players call them, “road beef.” Along the way, the book will touch on pieces of Boone family lore, including Bret hitting zero dingers in a home run derby and Aaron’s home run (if you don’t know what this is referring to, then consult the nearest Red Sox fan). Blending nostalgia, behind-the-scenes profanity, close analysis of the game that only players can offer, and insight into baseball’s ongoing evolution as a sport and a business, Bret Boone will offer a one-of-a-kind look at America’s favorite pastime from a family who has seen it all. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 35 05/10/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365604 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365598 The Last Remnant The Fourline Trilogy (Book 3) Pam Brondos Following her forced departure from Fourline, Natalie Barns has been aching to rejoin the struggle to overthrow its evil dictator. With Soris and those she left behind constantly on her mind, Nat bides her time, determined to find a cure for the duozi—those infected by the terrifying Nala. An unexpected discovery propels her back to those she has sworn to protect, but her reappearance in Fourline is anything but straightforward, particularly when familiar faces appear when least expected. Despite the warnings of her friends and the looming threat of the vengeful Nala queen, Nat joins the fight in Fourline, both in her mind as well as on the field of battle. Her decisions may salvage Fourline’s future but at the risk of her own horrifying fate. 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Horror Ages 12 and up Mark of Cain MP3-CD $25.99 9781491588383 In 1567, baby Aphra is found among the reeds and rushes by two outcast witches. Even as an infant, her gifts in the dark craft are clear. But when her guardians succumb to an angry mob, Aphra is left to fend for herself. She is shunned and feared by all but one man, the leper known as Long Lankin. Hounded and ostracized, the two find solace only in each other, but even this respite is doomed, and Aphra’s bitterness poisons her entire being. Afflicted with leprosy, tortured and about to be burned as a witch, she manages one final enchantment—a curse on her tormentor’s heirs. Now, in 1962, Cora and Mimi, the last of a cursed line, are trapped in an ancient home on a crumbling estate in deepest winter, menaced by a spirit bent on revenge. Are their lives and souls forfeit forever? Unabridged CD $38.99 9781491588208 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781491588291 05/10/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374514 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374507 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Lindsey Barraclough Mercer Girls Libbie Hawker It’s 1864 in downtrodden Lowell, Massachusetts. The Civil War has taken its toll on the town—leaving the economy in ruin and its women in dire straits. That is, until Asa Mercer arrives on a peculiar, but providential, errand: he seeks high-minded women who can exert an elevating influence in Seattle, where there are ten men for every woman. Mail-order brides, yes, but of a certain caliber. Schoolmarmish Josephine, tough-as-nails Dovey, and pious perfectionist Sophronia see their chance to exchange their bleak prospects for new lives. But the very troubles that sent them running from Lowell follow them to the muddy streets of Seattle, and the friendships forged on the cross-country trek are tested at every turn. Just when the journey seems to lead only to ruin, an encounter with a famous suffragist could be their salvation. But to survive both an untamed APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 36 new landscape and their pasts, they’ll need all their strength—and one another. 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $29.99 9781511368001 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511367998 O Great One! A Little Book About the Awesome Power of Recognition David Novak & Christa Bourg Based on real experiences that David Novak had as the Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, this parable will empower readers to recognize the contributions of those around them in order to drive bigger and better results. It’s not hard, it’s not expensive, and you don’t need an MBA or even a position of authority to do it. It’s a deceptively simple principle that can have a huge impact on both your life and your business. Jeff Johnson, the new CEO of The Happy Face Toy Company, has one year to save his family’s famous toy company, which has fallen on hard times following the death of his father. If Jeff fails, the whole company will fail. As he races to save his family’s legacy by getting the company back on track, Jeff encounters downtrodden factory workers and an uninspired executive team. Then a birthday gift from his grandson gives Jeff an important insight into why business is suffering: the secret ingredient to making people happy and engaged is missing. During his time as CEO of Yum!, Novak harnessed the power of employee recognition to revitalize the culture. The principles he lives by, from handing out personalized awards to coaxing office culture into life, are at the core of this parable. Novak recently founded OGO Enterprises, the world’s first recognition brand focused on appreciating all people for who they are and what they do. 05/10/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women The Restaurant Critic’s Wife MP3-CD $14.99 9781522639787 Lila Soto has a master’s degree that’s gathering dust, a work-obsessed husband, two kids, and lots of questions about how exactly she ended up here. In their new city of Philadelphia, Lila’s husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic a little too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he’s determined to remain anonymous. Soon his preoccupation with anonymity takes over their lives as he tries to limit the family’s contact with anyone who might have ties to the foodie world. Meanwhile, Lila craves adult conversation and some relief from the constraints of her homemaker role. With her patience wearing thin, she begins to question everything: her decision to get pregnant again, her break from her career, her marriage— even if leaving her ex-boyfriend was the right thing to do. As Sam becomes more and more fixated on keeping his identity secret, Lila begins to wonder if her own identity has completely disappeared—and what it will take to get it back. Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522639770 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Elizabeth LaBan APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 37 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / Nature MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376853 05/16/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $29.99 9781511370974 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511370967 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Shark and the Albatross Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth John Aitchison For 20 years John Aitchison has been travelling the world to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters, taking him to faraway places on every continent. The Shark and the Albatross is the story of these journeys of discovery, of his encounters with animals and occasional enterprising individuals in remote and sometimes dangerous places. His destinations include the far north and the far south, expeditions to film for Frozen Planet and other natural history series, in Svalbard, Alaska, the remote Atlantic island of South Georgia, and the Antarctic. They also encompass wild places in India, China, and the United States. In all he finds and describes key moments in the lives of animals, among them polar bears and penguins, seals and whales, sharks and birds, and wolves and lynxes. He reveals what happens behind the scenes and beyond the camera. He explains the practicalities and challenges of the filming process, and the problems of survival in perilous places. He records touching moments and dramatic incidents, some ending in success, others desperately sad. There are times when a hunted animal triumphs against the odds and others when, in spite of preparation for every outcome, disaster strikes. And, as the author shows in several incidents that combine nail-biting tension with hair-raising hilarity, disaster can strike for filmmakers too. When the Pressure's On The Secret to Winning When You Can't Afford to Lose Louis S. Csoka, Ph.D. At the highest level of any pursuit, the difference between the two top performers in a contest is always mental. One holds it together—while the other falls apart. The same is true in business. Whether you are confronting a crisis, making a pitch, negotiating a deal, or facing a deadline, your mindset can give you the edge. When the Pressure’s On brings peak performance principles to the boardroom, revealing five core mental skills that enable professionals to excel while under duress: • Goal Setting—become mission-driven • Adaptive Thinking—replace negative thoughts with positive ones • Stress/Energy Management—keep your cool no matter what • Attention Control—maintain focus despite distractions • Imagery—see success before it happens. Together, the skills form the core of this complete brain-training program, packed with guidelines, examples, exercises, assessments, and the latest advances in biofeedback and neuroscience. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 38 05/17/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391610 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391603 05/17/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511359177 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511359160 05/17/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511358811 Unabridged CD To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Fractured State Steven Konkoly In 2035, the southwestern United States is ravaged by drought, reeling from an environmental catastrophe that has left the landscape a chaotic, depleted ruin. California, still viably inhabitable due to its oppressive social controls, marshals state-of-the-art surveillance technology and totalitarian policies to preserve its fragile hold on rapidly dwindling resources and an increasingly unsettled population. After a prominent California congresswoman is assassinated for her support of the state’s secession from the United States, Nathan Fisher— accidental witness to a clandestine military-style operation—is drawn into an unraveling conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power and threatens the lives of Fisher and his family. Hunted by ruthless killers seeking to ensure his silence, suspected by the authorities, and aided only by a loyal Marine officer with a mysterious agenda, Fisher and his loved ones must somehow stay a step ahead of their relentless pursuers, navigating a ruined world in a desperate search for sanctuary. The Girl and the Rat Jari Järvelä, translated by Kristian London After losing her boyfriend and partner in crime, Rust, during a tragic run-in with security, Metro moves to Berlin to start over. She finds a home in a grimy squat where she befriends other graffiti artists, and together they carry out aggressive attacks, bombing entire trains and buildings with fresh paint and achieving international notoriety by posting their hits online. Adorning the attic of their squat is a wall-size piece by world-famous tagger Banksy depicting a silhouetted rat spraying a wall. It’s a hidden treasure amid the squalor. But when Metro comes home one day to find bodies—including one familiar face from her past—scattered around the building and the amazing mural missing entirely, she and her friends are forced into action. The piece turns up at auction for millions of dollars, and Metro must follow it to its new home in Kotka, Finland, a town she thought she had left behind for good. Up against the law and on the run from her personal demons, Metro has no choice but to seek justice with the only means she has: graffiti. In the Clearing The Tracy Crosswhite Series Robert Dugoni Read by Emily Sutton-Smith Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 39 $22.99 9781511358804 dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime. So when Jenny, a former police academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier, Tracy agrees. Following up on evidence Jenny’s detective father collected when he was the investigating deputy, Tracy probes one small town’s memory and finds dark, wellconcealed secrets hidden within the community’s fabric. Can Tracy uphold the promise she’s made to the dead girl’s family and deliver the truth of what happened to their daughter? Or will she become the next victim? 05/17/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics Momentum MP3-CD $29.99 9781511394482 Unabridged CD $35.99 9781511394468 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.97 9781511394475 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age Shama Hyder Marketing in today’s digital age has become overwhelmingly complex—but it doesn’t have to be. Success lies in stepping above of the clutter and understanding the new principles of digital marketing. To this complicated and fast-moving world, bestselling author, renowned marketer, and award-winning entrepreneur Shama Hyder brings her uniquely Zen approach—separating out the critical from the trivial and the foundational rules from the ephemeral gimmicks. Offering five essential principles that crack the code on marketing successfully in today’s ecosystem, Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age will help you not only regain your sanity, but learn how to spot opportunities to grow your organization and brand in the midst of marketplace chaos. In Momentum, Shama draws on her experience guiding clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100s to demystify the marketing landscape and provide you with the digital foresight you need to operate effectively in an increasingly digital world. Using key principles, she demonstrates how to transform your current approach into an effective, struggle-free, ROI-driven strategy. Before you invest in another marketing strategy, take a step back. Don’t waste enormous amounts of time, energy, and money on the wrong strategies and approach for your customers, industry, and market. Whether you’re a young business or an established company, let Momentum teach you how to thrive. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 40 05/17/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375955 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375948 05/17/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391283 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391276 My One and Only An Ardent Springs Novel Terri Osburn As far as Dr. Haleigh Rae Mitchner is concerned, Cooper Ridgeway is more suited to a superhero cape than mechanic’s overalls. It’s just like Ardent Springs’s most upstanding resident to rescue a pregnant, homeless teenager and bring her to Haleigh’s delivery room. When they team up to help the new mother and baby, Haleigh is determined not to cross the line with Cooper. Not only is he her best friend’s brother, he’s a guy who deserves more than Haleigh’s checkered past could ever offer. At first glance, Haleigh is no longer the girl Cooper pined for in school. The sleek, professional OB-GYN seems more out of reach than ever for this smalltown mechanic. But the more time he spends with the complicated woman, the more he wants her. Who better than Cooper to prove to her that nothing is beyond fixing? Especially in Ardent Springs, a town that’s tailor-made for second chances. Perilous Judgment A Real Justice Thriller Dennis Ricci Federal judge Edward Lamport is no stranger to controversy and danger. Nine months into his tenure, he’s received two death threats and is under the protection of US Marshals. But when he receives a plea for help from a woman with whom he had a brief romance twenty-five years earlier, he must face a peril of a different sort, one that involves his long-lost son, Carlos. While working for a bank in his native Mexico, Carlos discovers an international money-laundering scheme. Now he’s on the run from those who want him dead. To get the young man asylum in the United States, Lamport appeals to his highest connections in Washington, only to find puzzling dead ends at every turn. Caught between law and love, he’s forced to take the matter into his own hands. With only his faith in God to guide him, how far is he willing to venture into the dark recesses of political corruption to save his son? 06/07/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Stealing Jason Wilde MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391498 After her divorce, librarian Annie Reynolds thought she’d closed the book on love for good—it just wasn’t part of her safe, comfortable routine. But if there’s any place she can relax and have a little fun, it’s Dune Road, where she and her closest girlfriends return for their annual getaway in the Hamptons. She knows it’s just what she needs to escape her empty nest (and empty bed). A chance encounter with a ruggedly handsome local promises Annie just that. But when one of her friends turns a simple flirtation with B-list movie Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391481 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Dee Ernst APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 41 star Jason Wilde into seduction—and Jason accidentally mixes a few drinks and his back-pain medicine—the ladies end up with a very high-profile houseguest. The media calls it a kidnapping, and before long, the FBI is on the hunt. Soon the ladies’ tame little trip has turned into the adventure of a lifetime. But will this case of mistaken misdoing sabotage Annie’s second chance at love, or will she have the confidence to take matters into her own hands to find her happily ever after? 05/17/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391702 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391696 05/17/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368322 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368315 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Turn Me Loose A Paradise, Idaho Novel Rosalind James Rochelle Marks is working hard to build a name for herself that has nothing to do with her pinup-girl curves. She’s made mistakes in the past, and now she’s trying to stop her little sister, Stacy, from making worse ones. Rochelle’s done with being nothing more than someone’s good time. Even if that someone is the one-night stand who turned her life upside down before vanishing—and who’s just arrived in Paradise, Idaho, looking to pick up where they left off. Tech mogul Travis Cochran’s hard-won new priorities have brought him to town as a university lecturer, but he’s come for something else, too: the smart, sassy, gorgeous woman who’s been in his head for months. When Stacy’s choices draw her big sister into a web of down-home crime and coldblooded murder, Travis’s mission gets a whole lot more urgent. Now convincing Rochelle to trust him isn’t just about winning her back. It may be the only way to keep her alive.… Victoria Crossing Michael Wallace Driven from Ireland during the potato famine, Protestant Victoria MacPherson and Catholic Maeve O’Reilly find themselves thrown together aboard a Manhattan-bound ship. After a treacherous journey, they arrive in New York City in 1851, with only a small purse of silver and the promise that Maeve’s brother will find them there. But when he doesn’t show, the girls are quickly conned out of their savings by a smooth-talking scam artist, leaving the two destitute in the tenements of Lower Manhattan. As the women work their way from seamstresses earning pennies a day to proprietresses starting their own shop, their success is endangered by the city’s corruption and a disgraceful secret that Victoria has been keeping from Maeve. Jealous rivals, religious prejudice, and the shocking revelation of Victoria’s shameful past threaten to break their bond and reduce the women to rags. But will their strength, courage, and spirit be enough to help them survive and thrive once again? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 42 05/18/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $22.99 9781511370882 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511370875 05/23/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $29.99 9781511312769 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511312752 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781511312776 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice 10 Laws of Trust, The Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great Joel Peterson, with David A. Kaplan Trust is the glue that holds an organization together. It turns secrecy into transparency, micromanagement into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. With it, a tiny company like John Deere grew into a worldwide leader. Without it, a giant corporation like Enron toppled. In The 10 Laws of Trust, JetBlue chairman Joel Peterson explores how a culture of trust gives companies an edge. Consider this: What does it feel like to work for a firm where leaders and colleagues trust one another? Freed from micromanagement and rivalry, every employee contributes his or her best. Risk-taking and innovation become the norm. And, as Peterson notes, “When a company has a reputation for fair dealing, its costs drop: trust cuts the time spent second-guessing and lawyering.” In clear, engaging prose, highlighted by compelling examples, Peterson details how to establish and maintain a culture of trust. Steps include: Start with integrity Invest in respect Empower everyone Require accountability Create a winning vision Keep everyone informed Budget in line with expectations Embrace conflict Forget “you” to become an effective leader And more The Big Fish Experience Create Memorable Presentations That Reel In Your Audience Kenny Nguyen, Gus Murillo, Robert Killeen & Luke Jones In The Big Fish Experience, the authors detail their proven process of crafting engaging content, creating high-quality design, and practicing powerful delivery. They share practical information on new presentation tools; innovative ways to deliver a presentation; case studies of great presentations, which one can emulate immediately; and ways to recover if presentations go wrong. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 43 05/24/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511327299 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511327282 05/24/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 12 and up MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391221 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391214 05/24/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374484 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374477 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Charmingly Yours A Morning Glory Novel Liz Talley Read by Brittany Pressley For Rosemary Reynolds, life in tiny Morning Glory, Mississippi, is just like the fabric store she runs: it seems she’s always waiting around for someone else to make the first stitch. Then a dear childhood friend passes away, leaving behind a gift that sends Rosemary on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Despite her mother’s protests, Rosemary heads to New York City for a stay in her cousin’s trendy SoHo loft. On her first day in town, a wrong turn leads her to Little Italy…and into the arms of handsome, outgoing Sal Genovese. Sal’s mother wants him to marry a longtime family friend, but to him, Rosemary is a breath of fresh country air, and he’s happy to show her a good time. Soon, Rosemary is swept up in a world she thought only existed in movies. To turn a two-week fling into a forever thing, she and Sal will have to make every moment count. Curse Blur Trilogy (Book 3) Steven James As Daniel Byers prepares to attend a basketball camp before his senior year of high school, the terrifying blurs that’ve plagued him for the last nine months return. Dark images begin to haunt him—creatures crawling from the deepest pits of his nightmares, glimmers of chilling memories from his early childhood. But before he can unearth the meaning behind his mysterious hallucinations, Daniel must team up with two other extraordinary teens to save a young woman who has been abducted by a scientist obsessed with enacting his own warped form of justice. This atmospheric mystery picks up where Fury left off and takes readers into the uncharted regions where reality and madness intertwine. Edenland Wallace King Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy plantation, and a daring escape offers his only chance for liberty. On the run he encounters Alice, an Irish indentured servant, committing what appears to be an act of murder as she burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them from swamp to city, from North Carolina to Virginia. Somewhere between injustice and loss, they discover a hidden place that seems an Eden, where their bond and love are forged. But the Confederate army is on the march and soon tramples their APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 44 tenuous freedom. Separated, they are cast into fates they never imagined. Through it all, the hope of deliverance drives them onward and the memory of their Edenland remains, burning bright against the darkness of slavery and the American Civil War. 05/03/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511365932 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511365925 05/24/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $22.99 9781491505700 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781491505663 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $97.99 9781491505694 Abridged CD $22.99 9781491505687 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Four Night Run William Lashner J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city’s forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future. Somewhere in the sordid stream of his own existence lie the answers he needs. But in order to emerge from the depths of Crapstown, Scrbacek must argue for his life before a jury of the forgotten and the damned. Is he lawyer enough to save his own skin? From the bestselling author of The Barkeep comes a raucous tale of reckoning, racketeering, and revenge. Haunted Destiny Krewe of Hunters Series Heather Graham A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this. Jackson Crow—head of the FBI's Krewe of Hunters, a special unit of paranormal investigators—is assigned to the case, along with local agent Jude McCoy. Then Alexi Cromwell, who works in the ship's piano bar, is drawn into the situation when a victim's ghost appears to her—and to Jude. She and Jude share an attraction, and not just because of their mutual talent. There are many suspects, but one by one they're ruled out.… Or are they? In the end, Jude and Alexi have to rely on each other to catch the killer and escape his evil plans for Alexi. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 45 05/24/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391672 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391665 05/24/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375986 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375979 Rite of Wrongs Mica Stone Stress is a constant in Detective Miriam Rome’s life due to her heavy caseload. Now she’s facing an especially gruesome crime: a pediatrician’s wife has been brutally murdered, and a Bible verse written in her blood is found at the scene. As the tranquil city of Union Park, Texas, is left reeling, Detective Rome pursues every possible lead in her search for the murderer. When a second slaying—and second bloody quote—seems to confirm that a serial killer is at large, Rome is forced to turn to her former partner for his particular insight. Father Augustine Treece had walked away from police work, but now Rome’s request has drawn him back into the grisly world he thought he’d left behind. Working to stay ahead of the murders, Detective Rome and Father Treece must forgive their past to protect the next victim…a task that tests Rome’s limits when the killer hits too close to home. The Shark Forgotten Files Series Mary Burton At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum’s past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley’s old flame, is Shield Security’s newest member. He’s plagued by the unsolved case of a serial killer nicknamed the Shark who murdered girls as part of a sadistic poker game. Only one girl survived. With the Shark now bent on evening that score, Clay has a chilling suspicion: Riley is the girl who escaped the Shark’s deadly amusement—and she is his next prey. As the Shark gets ready to play his hand, can Riley and Clay stop him—or will this killer finally claim the one who got away? 05/24/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 14 and up Shining Sea MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391733 Seventeen-year-old Arion Rush has always played the obedient sidekick to her older sister’s flashy femme fatale—until a mysterious boating accident leaves Lilah a silent, traumatized stranger. As her sister awaits medical treatment with their mother, Arion and their father head to his hometown in Maine to prepare a new life for them all. Surrounded by the vast Atlantic, songwriting is Arion’s only solace, her solid ground. Unexpectedly, Arion blossoms in the tiny coastal town. Friends flock to her, and Logan Delaine, a volatile heartthrob, seems downright smitten. But it’s Bo Summers—a solitary surfer, as alluring as he is aloof—that Arion can’t Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391726 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Mimi Cross **Canadian author** APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 46 shake. Meanwhile, Lilah’s worsening condition, a string of local fatalities, and Arion’s own recent brushes with death seem ominously linked…to Bo’s otherworldly family. As Arion’s feelings for Bo intensify and his affections turn possessive, she must make a choice. How will Arion learn to listen to her own voice when Bo’s siren song won’t stop ringing in her ears? **Mimi Cross, a native of Toronto, now lives in New Jersey. 05/24/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781522635246 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522635239 05/24/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613510 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522613503 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Sister of Mine Sabra Waldfogel When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to see the Union flag flying high—or to be greeted by a group of freed slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place has an unusual history. Twelve years prior, Adelaide Mannheim—daughter of Mordecai, the only Jewish planter in the county—was given her own maid, a young slave named Rachel. The two became friends, and soon they discovered a secret: Mordecai was Rachel’s father, too. As the country moved toward war, Adelaide and Rachel struggled to navigate their newfound sisterhood—from love and resentment to betrayal and, ultimately, forgiveness. Now, facing these Union soldiers as General Sherman advances nearer, their bond is put to the ultimate test. Will the plantation be spared? Or will everything they’ve lived for be lost? Stormy Cove Bernadette Calonego **Canadian author** Translated by Gerald Chapple As a globe-trotting freelance photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lori Finning has seen just about everything. But when she lands an assignment on the barren, snow-swept island of Newfoundland, she finds herself in harsh and unfamiliar territory. During the long, dreary winters in the isolated fishing community of Stormy Cove, gossiping is the primary pastime. So Lori is surprised when she learns of a crime the locals have spent twenty years not talking about: the strange, unsolved murder of a teenage girl. As she delves deeper into the village’s past, she’ll discover dark family secrets, unexplained crimes, and an undeniable attraction to Noah, a taciturn local fisherman who just might hold all the answers. **Bernadette Calonego lives in Vancouver. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 47 05/24/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense Tangled Lies MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613428 Orphaned as a child in Russia, boat captain Sasha Petrov has spent most of her life adrift, anchored only by her loving foster family. So when they beg her to return to the family marina in Safe Harbor, Florida, for Mama’s sixtieth birthday, Sasha complies, hoping to put the past behind her. But Mama has other plans: she wants her three foster daughters to find Tony, the biological son who disappeared twenty years earlier. Sasha agrees to try, but that’s easier said than done when bad boy Jesse Claybourne shows up, reigniting an old attraction. Back in Safe Harbor on a quest of his own, Jesse gets tangled up in Sasha’s search, and soon the two are close to uncovering an old town secret that some will stop at nothing to protect. When Jesse and Sasha’s dog are attacked, they realize the past is hiding something more sinister than they ever imagined. Can they uncover the truth without destroying Sasha’s family and breaking each other’s hearts, or are they sailing against the wind? Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522613411 05/27/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $22.99 9781511364683 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511364676 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613480 Unabridged CD $22.99 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Connie Mann Winning the Brain Game Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking Matthew May In a 10-year study involving hundreds of interactive creative problem-solving sessions, renowned business strategist and author Matthew E. May gave over 150,000 professionals a simple thought exercise, finding that less than 5% arrived at the best and most elegant solution. The evidence he collected points to seven observable thinking flaws, hard-wired in the human brain, that could send you down a path to business failure. The Brain Game calls on neuroscience and psychology to explain these fatal flaws, then draws on case studies and interviews with the most innovative thinkers in the world to provide you with a super-curated set of battle-tested tools for fighting them. Short, practical, and imminently readable, the book offers a fresh spin on the traps that cause innovators, product designers, and business strategists to employ generic solutions for complex, real world problems. May’s practical solutions to avoid repetitive thinking patterns will lead you to better decision-making, higher levels of innovation, clearer business strategies, and overall success. The All-Star Antes Up Wager of Hearts Series Nancy Herkness “No strings, no rings.” That’s Luke Archer’s motto. As the champion quarterback for the New York Empire—not to mention a self-made billionaire—Luke has given up on serious relationships. Women only want him for one thing: the thrill of being with a superstar. And he can’t risk love APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 48 9781522613473 distracting him from his next Super Bowl victory. But when his best friend announces he’s retiring from football to spend time with his wife and kids, Luke feels like he’s missing out on something much bigger than his career. The assistant concierge in Luke’s luxury high-rise, Miranda Tate fled her family’s dairy farm to come to the bright lights of New York City. She works hard to move up and sends her spare earnings home to her brother. When she and Luke meet, there’s an instant attraction, but they’re in completely different leagues. Could Miranda be just the woman Luke needs to win the most important game of his life? 05/31/2016 FICTION / Fantasy Dancer's Lament MP3-CD $35.99 9781511377034 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511377010 Path to Ascendancy Trilogy Ian C. Esslemont Esslemont's all-new prequel trilogy takes readers deeper into the politics and intrigue of the New York Times bestselling Malazan Empire. Dancer's Lament focuses on the genesis of the empire, and features Dancer, the skilled assassin, who, alongside the mage Kellanved, would found the Malazan empire. Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $76.99 9781511377003 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781501259982 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781501259999 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $69.99 9781501259975 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Destiny Unleashed Perfect Destinies Series Sherryl Woods Read by Teri Schnaubelt #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods concludes the Perfect Destinies series with this beloved, sassy tale of revenge with an unexpected twist. For twenty years Destiny Carlton has put family and duty ahead of her own hopes and dreams. Now, with the orphaned nephews she raised grown and married, it's time for the once free-spirited artist to reinvent herself yet again, this time as a savvy businesswoman out for revenge. Her target: William Harcourt, a man she once loved, a man who now seems hell-bent on destroying her family's business. For William, going after Carlton Industries is a high-stakes gamble. He's gotten Destiny's attention, but he has also infuriated her family. Now they stand firmly between him and his real goal—winning Destiny's heart. William has set the corporate game in motion, but suddenly he's playing by Destiny's rules. And when an unpredictable woman's fury has been unleashed, who knows what unexpected twists life might take? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 49 05/31/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $35.99 9781491593486 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781491593479 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781491593493 Fix It 16 Traits That Empower You, Your Team, and Your Organization to Achieve Results Roger Connors & Tom Smith Since it was originally published in 1994, The Oz Principle has become the worldwide bible on accountability. Now Roger Connors and Tom Smith, along with field practitioners Craig Hickman, Tracy Skousen, and Marcus Nicolls, add another important plank in The Oz Principle series. In Fix It, the authors present the startling results of their Workplace Accountability Study—conducted over three years, involving more than forty thousand participants from organizations across the globe: the most comprehensive study on workplace accountability ever conducted. When accountability is not working on the job, in the team or the organization as a whole, everyone is left asking how to fix it. Using neverbefore-published research and firsthand stories and practices from more than one hundred respected global executives, Fix It provides a practical and definitive guide that will become the troubleshooting handbook of choice, designed to assist the reader in knowing exactly how to fix it and get real results. 05/31/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women The Island House MP3-CD $29.99 9781511322713 The charms of Nantucket tempt a woman to leave her established life in Kansas City—but with a piece of her heart, and a love interest, in each world, she discovers she must look within to choose the right path. Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Jenny has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established university professor in Kansas City, she finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two very different men. She chooses Nantucket and the glamorous life she associates with it, unaware that the summer will take an unexpected turn, and she will have to let her heart decide what it truly wants. Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511322690 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511322706 Nancy Thayer 05/31/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Saving Abby MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368209 All children’s book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own. Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle they’ve been waiting for. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire and Josh are living on cloud nine. But when she begins to experience debilitating headaches, blurred vision, and even fainting spells, the soon-to-be mother goes to the doctor and receives a terrifying diagnosis. Since any treatment Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368193 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Steena Holmes **Canadian author** APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 50 could put their unborn baby’s life at risk, the Turners must carefully weigh their limited options. And as her symptoms worsen, Claire will have to make an impossible decision: Save her own life, or save her child’s? ** Steena Holmes lives in Calgary, AB. 05/31/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Saving Sara Redemption Series (Book 1) Nicola Marsh MP3-CD $14.99 9781522639060 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522639053 05/31/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374361 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374354 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781522614685 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522614678 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Two for the Show Jonathan Stone Chas is a detective who doesn’t stake out cheating husbands, track down missing persons, or match wits with femmes fatales. Instead of pounding the pavement, he taps a computer keyboard. He can get the goods on anyone, and it’s all to make sure superstar Las Vegas mind reader Wallace the Amazing stays amazing. Thanks to Chas’s steady stream of stealthy intel, Wallace’s mental “magic” packs houses every night. But when someone threatens to call the psychic showman’s bluff, the sweet gig takes a sour—and sinister—turn. Who’s the clean-cut couple gunning for Wallace with an arsenal of dirty tricks? Why does Wallace keep upping the ante instead of backing down? And just how much does Chas really know about his mysterious boss’s life…or his own? The tangled truth— of blackmail, kidnapping, and false identities—quickly becomes the biggest case of his strange, secret career. Wicked Love A Wicked White Novel Michelle A. Valentine All Tyler Mercer wanted was to make music—until he met Avery Jenson. The beautiful new girl in town turned his head and struck a chord in his heart. But when their one night of passion results in devastating tragedy, Tyler hits the road, leaving behind his dead-end hometown and the girl he knows he’ll never forget. After her father was caught embezzling, Avery’s comfortable life in the city was blown to bits. But meeting Tyler helped to pick up the pieces and eased APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 51 her into country living. She just never expected the handsome musician would add to her heartbreak by walking away without a backward glance. Now, three years later, rock star Tyler’s come back, hat in hand. He’s found fame and fortune as a member of Wicked White, but it’s all worth nothing without Avery’s love. Can she forgive him for leaving when she needed him most? Or will the ghost of their past keep them apart? 06/01/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511372435 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511372428 06/01/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511372282 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511372275 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Butterfly Garden Dot Hutchison Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself. As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding.… Enemy On the Bones of Gods Series K. Eason Read by Fiona Hardingham Snowdenaelikk, half-blood conjuror and smuggler, cares less about history than the silver she can win with sharp metal and sharper wits. But when the local legion blames her for burning a village, an outlander with a sense of honor intervenes, and Snow finds herself tangled in politics and an unwelcome partnership. Snow and her new partner, Veiko, together with the legion scout Dekklis, uncover a conspiracy that will destroy the Republic from within. It seems that the goddess is back from wherever dead gods go. She has not forgotten the Republic, and she wants revenge. Loyal Dekklis will do anything to save the Republic, and Snow reluctantly agrees to help—until she realizes that “anything” means sacrificing Veiko. Now Snow must decide whether her partner’s life is worth betraying her allies and damning the Republic to war. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 52 06/01/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women A House for Happy Mothers MP3-CD $14.99 9781511366847 A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling author of The Mango Season. In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads—but she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset—her womb—to a childless couple overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her faith in a woman she’s never met to make her dreams of motherhood come true. Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that India’s rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents and cultures to bring a new life into the world—and renewed hope to each other. Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511366830 06/01/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781489099129 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781489099051 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781489099136 06/07/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $35.99 9781501214165 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781501214196 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Amulya Malladi You Sent Me a Letter Lucy Dawson At 2 am on the morning of her fortieth birthday, Sophie wakes in the darkness of her bedroom and finds a stranger watching her from the foot of the bed. The intruder hands Sophie a letter and issues an ultimatum: the message is to be opened at her forthcoming party, in front of family and friends, at exactly 8 pm. Any failure to comply will not end well. Sophie can only think of one person who hates her enough to have hired a professional to menace her like this: her fiancé's ex-wife. What can the letter possibly contain? And why must it be read in front of everyone she loves? This will be no ordinary fortieth party. Sophie is not the only person holding a secret about the evening ahead. When the clock strikes eight, the course of several people's lives will be altered forever. Margaret Truman’s Deadly Medicine Capital Crimes Series Donald Bain Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm, carry on the work of her father. His experiments in the jungles of Papua New Guinea in search of such a breakthrough product led to his brutal murder and the theft of his papers. Did Jayla's father's lab assistant kill the doctor and steal his research? Is this shadowy figure prepared to kill again to keep Jayla from profiting from APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 53 9781501214189 her father's work? Does her recent paramour's romantic interest reflect his true feelings—or will he sell her out and reap the rewards for himself? And to what lengths would Big Pharma's leading lobbyist go to cover up his involvement, and to protect a leading champion of the pharmaceutical industry—a Georgia senator with a shady past? As Mac, Annabel, and Brixton soon realize, no pill can ease the pain that the answers to these questions inflict on everyone in this tale of greed, betrayal—and murder. 06/07/2016 NON-FICTION / Science Grunt MP3-CD $29.99 9781511367929 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511367912 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511367936 06/21/2016 FICTION / Romance / Contemporary MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391467 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391450 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Curious Science of Humans at War Mary Roach Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again. Love on Lavender Island A Lavender Island Novel Lauren Christopher What’s worse than Paige Grant getting stuck in a window while breaking into her late grandmother’s Lavender Island ranch? Being discovered—and saved—by next-door neighbor Adam Mason. The Grants and Masons haven’t exactly been friendly in recent decades, despite Paige’s teenage crush on handsome, standoffish Adam. But the down-on-her-luck actress now needs more than saving: she wants to use part of Adam’s property to pull off a dramatic wedding for her idol, screen legend Dorothy Silver, in exchange for a movie role that could make her dreams come true. Adam has been struggling with emotional and financial burdens inherited from the recent death of his father. Yet he reluctantly agrees to help Paige prepare the ranch for the wedding. As they continue to spend time together, APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 54 sparks fly. But Paige is troubled by a secret that could ruin any hopes they have for a future together. When fire destroys the land that holds the key to both their dreams—and the secrets they carry make tensions run even hotter—can love rise from the ashes on Lavender Island? 06/07/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy Ages 12 and up MP3-CD $32.99 9781480557024 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781480557017 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $89.99 9781480557031 06/07/2016 FICTION / Romance / Contemporary MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376105 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376099 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Our Lady of the Streets The Skyscraper Throne (Book 2) Tom Pollock Read by Alison Larkin Ever since Beth Bradley found her way into a hidden London, the presence of its ruthless goddess, Mater Viae, has lurked in the background. Now Mater Viae has returned with deadly consequences. Streets are wracked by convulsions as muscles of wire and pipe go into spasm, bunching the city into a crippled new geography; pavements flare to thousand-degree fevers, incinerating pedestrians; and towers fall, their foundations decayed. As the city sickens, so does Beth—her essence now part of this secret London. But when it is revealed that Mater Viae's plans for dominion stretch far beyond the borders of the city, Beth must make a choice: flee, or sacrifice her city in order to save it. Sweet Resolve The Lucky Series Jill Sanders Amy Walker is steps away from her perfect job. The day she makes partner at her real estate firm will be the happiest of her life, second only to the day in junior high when her tormentor, Logan Miller, finally moved away. But fate has a warped sense of humor, because Logan is back. In her town, in her office, gunning for the same promotion. Worse, the man is sinfully hot. But that won’t keep Amy from exacting the revenge he richly deserves.… Logan had reasons for acting wild in his youth, but he still regrets the way he treated Amy. Especially once he’s sharing an office with the smart, selfcontrolled beauty. For one thing, she’s got a wicked sense of payback. For another, he’s realized there’s something he wants much more than a promotion. And that’s to melt the ice he helped form around her heart all those years ago and to prove that loving thine enemy can be the ultimate happy ending. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 55 06/07/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375894 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375887 06/07/2016 NON-FICTION / Political Science MP3-CD $22.99 9781511395618 Unabridged CD $38.99 9781511395588 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511395595 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Targeted A Callahan & McLane Novel Kendra Elliot All Detective Mason Callahan wanted was a quiet fishing trip with the guys—a chance to get away and unwind before Halloween. Until he finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. Now all he wants is to catch the sadist who slit Denny’s throat and covered his face with a mask. Mason was the last person to see him alive and will stop at nothing to find his friend’s murderer. When the FBI learns of the mask left at the scene, they realize they have a serial killer on their hands—one who is targeting cops. They assign the case to Special Agent Ava McLane, despite her engagement to Mason. Barely recovered from her own nearly fatal injury and her sister’s attempted suicide, Ava hopes she is ready to chase another killer. But as she delves into the increasingly disturbing case, the killer may be closer than expected—dangerously close. To Protect and To Serve How to Fix America's Police Norm Stamper American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities. Racism—from raw, individualized versions to insidious systemic examples—appears to be on the rise in our police departments. Overall, our police officers have grown more and more alienated from the people they’ve been hired to serve. In To Protect and To Serve, Norm Stamper offers new insights into the conditions that have created this crisis, reminding us that police in a democratic society belong to the people—and not the other way around. To Protect and To Serve also delivers a revolutionary new model for American law enforcement: the community-based police department. It calls for citizen participation in all aspects of police operations: policymaking, program development, crime fighting and service delivery, entry-level and ongoing education and training, oversight of police conduct, and, especially relevant to today’s challenges, joint community-police crisis management. Nothing will ever change until the system itself is radically restructured, and here Norm Stamper shows us how. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 56 06/07/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $29.99 9781511372602 Untethered Julie Lawson Timmer Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511372596 When Char Hawthorne's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no bounds. Char Hawthorn, college professor, wife and stepmother to a spirited fifteen-year-old daughter, loves her family and the joyful rhythms of work and parenting. But when her husband dies in a car accident, the “step” in Char’s title suddenly matters a great deal. In the eyes of the law, all rights to daughter Allie belong to Lindy, Allie’s self-absorbed biological mother, who wants to girl to move to her home in California. While Allie begins to struggle in school and tensions mount between her and Char, Allie’s connection to young Morgan, a ten-year-old-girl she tutors, seems to keep her grounded. But then Morgan, who was adopted out of foster care, suddenly disappears, and Char is left to wonder about a possible future without Allie and what to do about Morgan, a child caught up in a terrible crack in the system. 06/07/2016 FICTION / Dystopian Weight of the Heart Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511372589 MP3-CD $14.99 9781522635482 A Bruna Husky Novel Rosa Montero, translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522635475 06/07/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Thriller Ages 15 and up With Malice MP3-CD $22.99 9781511356909 Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room, leg in a cast, stitches in her face and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be. She comes to discover she was involved in a fatal accident while on a school trip in Italy three days previous but was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident…wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life. Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511356893 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $76.99 9781511356923 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Eileen Cook APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 57 06/13/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $22.99 9781480515024 Unabridged CD $49.99 9781480514997 Lib Ed. Unabridged CD $110.99 9781480515031 Abridged CD $35.99 9781480515017 06/14/2016 FICTION / Romance / Fantasy MP3-CD $22.99 9781501223983 Unabridged CD $49.99 9781501223969 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $110.99 9781501223976 Abridged CD $22.99 9781501224003 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Liberty's Last Stand A Tommy Carmellini Thriller Stephen Coonts New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts delivers another nailbiting thriller starring CIA Director Jake Grafton and his right-hand man, Tommy Carmellini. The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle. Afterwards, America will never be the same.Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into chaos just before a presidential election. After martial law is declared and rioting begins, Grafton and Carmellini must risk everything to unravel a massive conspiracy and help a new resistance movement rise up against an unimaginable enemy.… Bay of Sighs Guardians Trilogy (Book 2) Nora Roberts To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces.…Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the stars. New to this world, her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now, through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element, he finds himself drawn to her joyful spirit. But Sawyer knows that if he allows her into his heart, no compass could ever guide him back to solid ground.… And in the darkness, their enemy broods. She lost one star to the guardians, but there is still time for blood to be spilled—the mermaid’s in the water and the traveler’s on the land. For she has forged a dangerous new weapon. Something deadly and unpredictable. Something human. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 58 06/14/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense Breath of Malice MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391252 FBI special agent Paige Carson hoped she’d be able to start a new life in smalltown South Carolina. But when a senator’s sister is murdered and a blank postcard is left next to the body, Paige realizes that a killer from her past has found her—and is sending her a very personal message. From the moment he hired her, FBI special agent in charge Sam McKade knew Paige was hiding something. Prompted by this recent threat, she finally opens up: one year ago, she caught the eye of suspected serial killer Todd Thames. Now he’s come back to pull her into his game, whether she wants to play or not. As the danger increases, Paige and Sam give in to their growing attraction, and he vows to protect her no matter the cost. But the murderer will stop at nothing to get to his intended prey, and the strong arm of the law—and the shelter of her new love—may not be enough to save her. Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391245 06/14/2016 NON-FICTION / Social Science MP3-CD $22.99 9781480545267 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781480545250 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $89.99 9781480545274 06/14/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781522614838 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522614821 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Karen Fenech Face Value The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives Autumn Whitefield-Madrano For decades, we’ve discussed our insecurities in the face of idealized, retouched, impossibly perfect images. We’ve worried primping and preening are a distraction and a trap. But have we focused too much on beauty’s negative influence? In Face Value, journalist Autumn Whitefield-Madrano thoughtfully examines the relationship between appearance and science, social media, sex, friendship, language, and advertising to show how beauty actually affects us day to day. Through meticulous research and interviews with dozens of women across all walks of life, she reveals surprising findings, like that wearing makeup can actually relax you, that you can convince people you’re better looking just by tweaking your personality, and the ways beauty can be a powerful tool of connection among women. Equal parts social commentary, cultural analysis, careful investigation, and powerful personal anecdotes, Face Value is provocative and empowering— and a great conversation starter for women everywhere. It's In His Smile A Red River Valley Novel Shelly Alexander Miranda Cruz isn’t just the best darned waitress in town anymore; she’s Red River’s newest innkeeper. But first, she has to find the contractor who’s disappeared with her life savings so she can start renovations. Not so easy for a woman who never depends on anyone, especially a man. And when a gorgeous old flame shows up, the fire between them is reignited and threatens to send her dreams up in smoke. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 59 Acclaimed environmental architect Talmadge Oaks returns home to Red River on family business. He plans to get in and get out quickly because a professional catastrophe is waiting back in Washington. When an unforeseen snag keeps him in Red River longer than expected, he finds himself entangled in the renovations of his late grandmother’s Victorian inn. Handy with a hammer, he offers to help the beautiful new owner, but his motives aren’t completely selfless. Will his secret demolish everything they are building? Or can their undeniable passion keep them together? 06/14/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781511370783 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511370776 06/07/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391641 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391634 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Leaving Blythe River Catherine Ryan Hyde Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it’s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he’s his father’s only hope. With the help of three locals—a fearless seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skills—he heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethan’s world. Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him wondering if he’s been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has become about more than finding his dad. From the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of nature revealing human nature—the trickiest terrain. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father—if he finds him alive. Lost Dog A Gideon and Sirius Novel (Book 3) Alan Russell Read by Jeff Cummings Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.’s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon’s K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home—only to discover her owner is missing. Heather Moreland has clearly disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and the more Gideon digs into her past, the more he’s convinced of her abduction. As Gideon strives to help the missing woman, he is also troubled by the suspicious death of Detective Langston Walker, the leader of a support group for families of murder victims. The last time they’d met, Walker told Gideon about a cold case he had reopened, making Gideon wonder if the detective’s demise is the accident everyone believes. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 60 06/14/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511374668 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511374651 06/07/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391344 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391337 06/14/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $35.99 9781511371391 Unabridged CD To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Love in Exile Ayse Kulin, translated by Kenneth Dakan Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish women in the 1920s. But no one—least of all Sabahat herself—expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a handsome Armenian student named Aram. After precious moments alone together, their love begins to blossom. Try as she might to simplify her life and move on, Sabahat has no choice but to follow her heart’s desire. But Aram is Christian, and neither family approves. With only hope to guide their way, they defy age-old traditions, cross into dangerous territory, and risk everything to find their way back to each other. One of Turkey’s most beloved authors brings us an evocative story of two star-crossed lovers inspired by her own family’s history. Reliquary Reliquary Series Sarah Fine Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real—and Ben is hooked. It’s not the stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance. Determined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission. With Asa by her side, she’ll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can’t resist. Scaling Lean Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth Ash Maurya In the early stages of a tech startup's life, it's hard to decipher the meaningful metrics from the distractions. How do you know if your product is working? Is it the number of new signups? Average amount of time spent on the site? Revenue, even if you don't have a revenue model yet? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 61 $41.99 9781511371377 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $95.99 9781511371384 06/07/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511391313 In Scaling Lean, serial entrepreneur and author of the startup cult classic Running Lean Ash Maurya offers a tactical handbook for measuring and scaling a tech startup with maximum efficiency and efficacy. Maurya pairs real-world examples of startups like Airbnb and Dropbox with techniques and language from the manufacturing world to create a new model for measuring and describing an early stage startup's success. Scaling Lean is an indispensable handbook for startup founders graduating from the incubator stage to build their business in the real world. The Traitor's Story Kevin Wignall Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511391306 When fifteen-year-old American Hailey Portman goes missing in Switzerland, her desperate parents seek the help of their neighbor, Finn Harrington, a seemingly quiet historian rumored to be a former spy. Sensing the story runs deeper than anyone yet knows, Finn reluctantly agrees to make some enquiries. He has little to go on other than his instincts, and his instincts have been wrong in the past—sometimes spectacularly wrong. But he gets involved anyway, never imagining that Hailey’s disappearance might be linked to the tragic events that ended his career six years earlier, drawing him back into a deadly world that has neither forgiven nor forgotten. 06/21/2016 FICTION / Mystery The Body Reader MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376075 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511376068 06/21/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781522638889 Unabridged CD $22.99 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Anne Frasier For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive. After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine. Boundary Born A Boundary Magic Novel Melissa F. Olson Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 62 9781522638872 The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war. Lex has barely started investigating when she gets another surprise: the biological father she’s never met arrives on her doorstep. He has answers to all of Lex’s questions about her bloodline, but getting answers could mean betraying the life she’s already built. Then the next vampire is poisoned—and this time it’s Maven herself. The new evil that hunts Lex is powerful and ruthless enough to stop the strongest supernatural creature in the state. In order to find such a killer, Lex will have to face down her own birthright and call on every ally—both living and dead. 06/21/2016 FICTION / Mystery A Darker Sky MP3-CD $14.99 9781522614777 The Canary Island Series Mari Jungstedt & Ruben Eliassen, translated by Paul Norlen Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522614760 06/21/2016 NON-FICTION / Political Science MP3-CD $29.99 9781511375283 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511375269 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $89.99 9781511375276 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Flyover Nation You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To Dana Loesch When the owners of a small pizza parlor in Indiana were asked by the local press whether they would ever cater a gay wedding, they said no, citing their personal religious beliefs. The internet responded with immediate outrage, posting death threats and vicious online reviews, and forcing them to shut down. All for expressing a personal opinion rooted in faith, in response to a completely hypothetical question. A new front in the culture war had been opened. When the owners of the pizza parlor told Dana Loesch on a Blaze TV interview that they might never reopen, Loesch started a fundraising campaign. Hundreds of thousands of dollars quickly poured in to support them. The people donating weren’t taking a stand against gay rights; they just believed that a random mom-and-pop shop shouldn’t be run out of business because media and political elites on both coasts caricature and vilify rural Americans. Most of the problems with our country today can be traced to a very simple cause—the growing disconnect between the government and media elites and the rest of us, the old-fashioned, hard-working, God-fearing Americans who are proud to live in middle America. As Loesch explains, too many people getting on their high horse about Wal-Mart have never shopped in one. Protesters outraged at small town cops have never been helped by one. Environmentalists who claim to want to protect the spotted owl have never been in the woods with one. Atheists who attack committed Christians have never sat in a pew with one. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 63 Loesch doesn't take aims solely at the Democrats; some Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail have also forgotten what life is like for the people back home. While these so-called leaders may have forgotten the people in coal towns and farming communities, the voters in those communities haven't forgotten Washington's betrayals. And it will show in 2016.As one of the most powerful and recognizable voices on talk radio today, Dana Loesch is leading a revolution of America's new Silent Majority. 06/21/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522614807 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522614791 06/21/2016 FICTION / Romance / Contemporary MP3-CD $14.99 9781522614890 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522614883 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Leaving Independence Leanne W. Smith Ever since she received word that her husband, Robert, was killed in the Civil War, Abigail has struggled to keep her Tennessee home and family together. Then a letter arrives claiming that Robert isn’t dead, yet he has no plans to return. Desperate for answers, Abigail travels to Independence, Missouri, where she joins a westbound wagon train to find him. Leading a company along the Oregon Trail isn’t part of Hoke Mathews’s plans. But then the former cavalry scout gets a glimpse of Abigail—so elegant compared to the rest of their hardscrabble wagon community, yet spirited and resilient. Through every peril they encounter—snakebites, Indian raids, fevers, dangerous grudges—his bond with Abigail grows. Abigail knew this journey would test her courage. Now it’s testing her marriage vows and her heart, daring her to claim a future on her own terms in a land rich with promise. Secretly Hers A Sterling Canyon Novel Jamie Beck On her thirty-first birthday, hopeless romantic Kelsey Callihan has all but given up on happily ever afters, which is why she agrees to a risqué proposition from Sterling Canyon’s notorious playboy, backcountry skier Trip Lexington. After all, every girl needs a little fun, and with Trip, there are no mixed signals or risks of a broken heart. And if his tips can help her land a husband in the process, all the better. Trip couldn’t be happier with his secret, no-strings fling with sweet and sexy Kelsey until she calls it quits after meeting a man she believes could share her dream of marriage and family. His jealousy turns to outrage when he discovers that the man is his estranged half-brother and lifelong rival. Now Trip must decide whether the fire in his gut is due to sibling rivalry or something much more dangerous…like love. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 64 06/21/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522639091 The Tea Planter's Bride The India Tea Series (Book 2) Janet MacLeod Trotter Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522639084 06/21/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522635277 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522635260 06/28/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $29.99 9781511342506 Unabridged CD $41.99 9781511342490 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $84.99 9781511342513 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Tea Planter's Daughter The India Tea Series (Book 1) Janet MacLeod Trotter Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his wife, while Clarissa’s fragile sister, Olive, needs love and resourceful care. Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon attracts the attention of young, brash Wesley Robson, a rival tea planter. Yet before his intentions become fully clear, tragedy befalls the Belhavens and the sisters are wrenched from their beloved tea garden to the industrial streets of Tyneside. A world away from the only home she has ever known, Clarissa must start again. Using all her means, she must endure not only poverty but jealousy and betrayal too. Will the reappearance of Wesley give her the link to her old life that she so desperately craves? Or will a fast-changing world and the advent of war extinguish hope forever? All In Simona Ahrnstedt In the cutthroat world of Sweden’s financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider David Hammar. Ruthless. Notorious. Unstoppable. He’s out to hijack the ultimate prize, Investum. After years of planning, all the players are in place; he needs just one member of the aristocratic owning family on his side—Natalia De la Grip. Elegant, brilliant, driven to succeed in a man’s world, Natalia is curious about David’s unexpected invitation to lunch. Everyone knows that he is rich, dangerous, unethical; she soon discovers he is also deeply scarred. The attraction between these two is impossible, but the long Swedish nights unfold an affair that will bring to light shocking secrets, forever alter a family, and force both Natalia and David to confront their innermost fears and desires. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 65 06/28/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613244 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522613237 06/28/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $22.99 9781511373005 Unabridged CD $47.99 9781511372985 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $97.99 9781511372992 06/28/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781522639541 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522639534 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Dead Man's Rule Rick Acker Chicago lawyer Ben Corbin has just launched his private practice when Dr. Mikhail Ivanovsky, a mysterious Russian scientist, hires him to sue for possession of a safe deposit box. But when the box’s owner enlists the city’s highest-powered lawyer—and then turns up dead—the Russian confesses: inside the box is an old Soviet biowarfare formula for the deadliest disease known to humankind. To make matters worse, a technicality called the Dead Man’s Rule now forbids the scientist from taking the stand. With no one to testify—and therefore no evidence—the odds against Ben seem insurmountable. As the threat of a massive bioterrorist attack looms large, Ben and his team race to rebuild their case and rescue the box. To succeed, he’ll need all his wits and resources and Dr. Ivanovsky’s specialized knowledge—and both men will need to trust in a higher power. Defender Long, Tall Texans Series Diana Palmer When Paul Fiore disappeared from Isabel Grayling's life, he told himself it was for all the right reasons. She was young and innocent, and he was her millionaire father's lowly employee. Three years on, Paul is the FBI agent assigned to Isabel's case. Too late, he realizes what life in her Texas mansion was really like back then—and how much damage he did when he left. Once love-struck and sheltered, Isabel has become an assistant district attorney committed to serving the law, no matter how risky it gets. But right now, the man she can't forgive is the one thing standing between her and a deadly stalker. She knows Paul won't hesitate to protect her life with his own. But if she can't trust herself to resist him, how can she trust him not to break her heart all over again? Finding Libbie Deanna Lynn Sletten APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 66 06/28/2016 NON-FICTION / Self-Help MP3-CD $14.99 9781511329316 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511329309 Lib. Ed. Unabridged CD $73.99 9781511329323 06/28/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction Ages 12 and up How to Control Your Anxiety Before it Controls You Albert Ellis, Ph.D. From social anxiety to phobias to post-traumatic stress disorder, sources of anxiety in daily life are numerous, and can have a powerful impact on your future. By following the rules of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), created by world renowned therapist Dr. Albert Ellis, you can stop anxiety in its tracks if you will admit this important fact: Things and people do not make you anxious. You do. Your unrealistic expectations produce your needless anxiety. Yet not all anxiety is needless. Healthy anxiety can ward off dangers and make you aware of negative things that you can change. Unhealthy anxiety inhibits you from enjoying everyday activities and relationships, causes you to perform poorly, and blocks your creativity. Using the easy-to-master, proven precepts of REBT, this classic book not only helps you distinguish between healthy and unhealthy anxiety, but teaches you how to: Understand and dispute the irrational beliefs that make you anxious Use a variety of exercises, including rational coping self-statements, reframing, problem-solving methods, and Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA), to control your anxiety Apply over 200 maxims to control your anxious thinking as well as your bodily reactions to anxiety…and much more, including examples from dozens of cases Dr. Ellis treated successfully. Now you can overcome the crippling effects of anxiety—and increase your prospects for success, pleasure, and happiness at home and in the workplace. Infinity Reborn The Infinity Trilogy (Book 3) S. Harrison MP3-CD $14.99 9781511366755 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511366748 06/28/2016 FICTION / Historical MP3-CD $14.99 9781511376198 Unabridged CD To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Last Woman Standing A Novel of Mrs. Wyatt Earp Thelma Adams Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona’s famous lawmen. She leaves her San Francisco home APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 67 $22.99 9781511376181 to join Behan in Tombstone, Arizona, a magnet for miners (and outlaws) attracted by the silver boom. Though united by the glint of metal, Tombstone is plagued by divided loyalties: between Confederates and Unionists, Lincoln Republicans and Democrats. But when the silver-tongued Behan proves unreliable, it is legendary frontiersman Wyatt Earp who emerges as Josephine’s match. As the couple’s romance sparks, Behan’s jealousy ignites a rivalry destined for the history books… At once an epic account of an improbable romance and a retelling of an iconic American tale, The Last Woman Standing recalls the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral through the eyes of a spunky heroine who sought her happy ending in a lawless outpost—with a fierce will and an unflagging spirit. 06/28/2016 FICTION / Fantasy / Historical Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet MP3-CD $14.99 9781522635307 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522635291 Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn’t know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from. When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslaves her and demands that she produce sinister confections, including a witch’s gingerbread cottage, a living cookie boy, and size-altering cakes. During her captivity, Maire is visited by Fyel, a ghostly being who is reluctant to reveal his connection to her. The more often they meet, the more her memories return, and she begins to piece together who and what she really is—as well as past mistakes that yield cosmic consequences. 06/28/2016 FICTION / Mystery The Night Is Deep MP3-CD $14.99 9781522613398 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522613381 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Charlie N. Holmberg Joe Hart Though he’s still tormented by his brother’s murder and the accident that ended his career, ex-homicide detective Liam Dempsey is trying to move on. His girlfriend and their adopted son are the best things that ever happened to him—and being a police liaison is the next best thing to being back on the force. But when an old friend asks for his help, Liam is thrust into a harrowing investigation that reawakens his darkest personal demons. A politician has been violently attacked, and his wife is kidnapped for ransom. But as police mobilize to track the victim and trap her abductor, the case takes a chilling turn from extortion to grisly murder. Whoever snatched Valerie Farrow wants blood and money—and they’re brutally collecting. Working with, and against, the police, Liam is forced to dig deep to expose the ugly truth—even if it means digging his own grave in the process. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 68 06/28/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375924 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375917 06/28/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522639398 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522639381 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Seconds to Live A Scarlet Falls Novel Melinda Leigh Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett avoided his hometown of Scarlet Falls for years—too many bad memories. But when he receives the news that his father is dying, he rushes home only to discover he’s too late. Shaken, Mac retreats to his remote cabin seeking peace and solace. Instead, he crashes his jeep to narrowly avoid running over the naked body of a woman lying in the road. Even more disturbing, when he regains consciousness, the body is gone. Police detective Stella Dane wants to believe Mac, even if his story about the vanishing body seems far-fetched. But when Mac’s description matches the missing woman she’s been searching for, it raises a disturbing question: How does a dead body disappear? Mac and Stella will have to work together to find the answer and catch a psychotic kidnapper—and quickly. The killer has a deadly message to send, and the case is about to become personal.… Someone Must Die Sharon Potts When her six-year-old nephew vanishes from a neighborhood carnival, Aubrey Lynd’s safe, snow-globe world fractures; it shatters when the FBI’s investigation raises questions about her own family that Aubrey can’t answer. Aubrey picks apart the inconsistencies to expose the first of many lies: a ransom note—concealed from the FBI—with a terrifying and impossible ultimatum. Aubrey doesn’t know what to believe or whom to trust. The abduction is clearly personal—but why would someone play a high-stakes game with the life of a child? The more she presses for answers, the more Aubrey is convinced that her mother is hiding something. Desperate to save her young nephew, Aubrey must face harsh truths and choose between loyalty to her family and doing the right thing. And she’d better hurry, because vengeance sets its own schedule, and time is running out. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 69 TOP AUDIO TITLES – RE-ISSUE TITLES – APRIL–JUNE 2016: 04/05/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 6-10 MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375924 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511375917 04/05/2016 FICTION / Thriller Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511336383 04/05/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368513 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The 39-Storey Treehouse The Treehouse Series Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton Andy and Terry’s amazing treehouse has 13 new levels including a chocolate waterfall, a non-erupting active volcano, an opera house, a baby-dinosaur petting zoo, Andy and Terry’s Believe it or Else! museum, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-Ray room, a disco with light-up dance floor, the world’s scariest roller-coaster, and a top secret 39th level that hasn’t even been finished yet! Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up! Always Watching Chevy Stevens Read by Joyce Bean In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire: Healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her—and learns of some troubling parallels to her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name of the group’s leader, Aaron Quinn, provoke complex feelings of terror in Nadine even today? Then the unthinkable happens, and Nadine realizes that danger is closer to home than she ever imagined. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most…and fight back. Assassin's Game Ward Larsen Read by Luke Daniels David Slaton has a good life. He has a new wife and a house in the Virginia suburbs. But he also has a dark past. Slaton is a former kidon, the most lethal Israeli assassin ever created. After decades of work, a brilliant scientist has taken Iran to the threshold of its dream—a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Mossad must eliminate the man, but with a spy lurking high in its ranks there is only one option: bring APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 70 back Slaton. The kidon has vowed to never kill again, but when his wife is attacked and forced to flee across Europe, events force his hand. Slaton plots to assassinate one of the most closely guarded men on earth. Success is improbable. Survival unlikely. Only when he learns the labyrinthine truth does Slaton see one high-stakes chance. A chance for an assassin’s game…. 04/05/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction MP3-CD $14.99 9781511325929 04/05/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781511336352 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Blood of the Cosmos The Saga of Shadows Trilogy (Book 2) Kevin J. Anderson Read by Mark Boyett An epic space opera of the titanic conflict of several galactic civilizations against a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar empire. The intertwined plots, overflowing with colorful ideas, a large cast of characters, and complex storylines, span dozens of solar systems, alien races, and strange creatures. As the second book of the trilogy opens, the humans and Ildirans, having narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Shana Rei and their robot allies in The Dark Between the Stars, are desperate to find a way to combat the black cloud of antimatter of the Shana Rei. The mysterious alien Gardeners, who had helped them previously, turn out to be a disaster in disguise and because of them, the world tree forests are again in danger. The allies believing they have found a way to stop their dreaded enemies, a new weapon is tested, but it’s a horrible failure, throwing the human race and its allies to the brink of extinction. Lifted by the Great Nothing Karim Dimechkie Read by Neil Shah Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture—baseball and barbeques—and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life: to provide Max with a joyful childhood. He showers his son with gifts out of a belief that he deserves all and is capable of anything. Max wants nothing more than to convince his father that he is a successful single parent. The only thing that can disrupt their peaceful universe is the truth—which it does, with force. When Max turns 17, he learns from Rasheed's ex-girlfriend that his father has been lying to him. Max's understanding of the world is so rocked that he is subsequently launched on an uncertain mission to Beirut and then Paris. Lifted by the Great Nothing is a startlingly graceful and often hilarious coming-of-age story about the lengths we go to in order to preserve the APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 71 untruths by which we live. With its poignant relationships, unsettling misadventures, and surprising love stories, it is a touching and devastating portrait of a young man coming to terms with his country's—and his own— violent past. 04/05/2016 NON-FICTION / Psychology MP3-CD $22.99 9781511362214 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511362207 04/05/2016 NON-FICTION / Psychology Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511361699 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Me, Myself, and Us The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being Brian R. Little, Ph.D. In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature—and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transformed old ideas about personality based on the theories of Freud, Jung, and the humanistic psychologies of the nineteen sixties, which gave rise to the simplistic categorizations of the Meyer-Briggs Inventory and the "enneagream." But the general public still knows little about the new science and what it reveals about who we are. In Me, Myself, and Us, Brian Little, Ph.D., one of the psychologists who helped re-shape the field, provides the first in-depth exploration of the new personality science and its provocative findings for general readers. The book explores questions that are rooted in the origins of human consciousness but are as commonplace as yesterday's breakfast conversation. Are our first impressions of other people's personalities usually fallacious? Are creative individuals essentially maladjusted? Are our personality traits, as William James put it, "set like plaster" by the age of thirty? Is a belief that we are in control of our lives an unmitigated good? Do our singular personalities comprise one unified self or a confederacy of selves, and if the latter, which of our mini-mes do we offer up in marriage or mergers? Are some individuals genetically hard-wired for happiness? Which is the more viable path toward human flourishing, the pursuit of happiness or the happiness of pursuit? Little provides a resource for answering such questions, and a framework through which readers can explore the personal implications of the new science of personality. Questionnaires and interactive assessments throughout the book facilitate self-exploration, and clarify some of the stranger aspects of our own conduct and that of others. Brian Little helps us see ourselves, and other selves, as somewhat less perplexing and definitely more intriguing. The Paradox of Choice Why More Is Less Barry Schwartz Read by Ken Kliban Whether we’re buying a pair of jeans, selecting a long-distance carrier, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 72 individual needs—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of choice overload: it can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. Synthesizing current research in the social sciences, he makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, he offers practical steps for how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest, and, ultimately, derive greater satisfaction from the choices you do make. 04/05/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction MP3-CD $14.99 9781511362191 04/12/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Unabridged CD $14.99 9781511364102 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Tracker Foreigner Series (Book 16) C. J. Cherryh Read by Daniel Thomas May It’s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron’s return from space—a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government over-thrown and their world in chaos. Now, at last, things are calming down; the Assassins’ Guild is functioning again, working out its internal difficulties, and Bren is settling back into his routine: not as Lord of the Heavens; not—to his regret—as Lord of Najida peninsula, where his leisure estate is located; but as paidhi-aiji, an official in the atevi court. His current ambition is to keep himself and his bodyguard out of harm’s way, and to shepherd the aiji-dowager’s daring new trade agreement through the appropriate legislative committees. Combined with Tabini-aiji’s recent appointment of his young son Cajeiri as his official heir, Bren’s workload is challenging, but at least things on the atevi world seem to be on the right track. Something is coming, however, quietly, stealthily, just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens.… Cody and the Fountain of Happiness Tricia Springstubb, illustrated by Eliza Wheeler Read by Natalie Ross For whimsical Cody, many things are beautiful, especially ants who say hello by rubbing feelers. But nothing is as beautiful as the first day of summer vacation, and Cody doesn't want to waste one minute of it. Meanwhile, teenage brother Wyatt is moping over a girl, Mom is stressed about her new job selling shoes, Dad is off hauling chairs in his long-distance truck, and even APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 73 camp has been closed for the summer. What to do? Just when all seems lost, Cody bumps into a neighborhood boy named Spencer who is looking for a runaway cat. Good thing Cody is an expert at finding runaway cats. Now it's Cody to the rescue! 04/12/2016 NON-FICTION / Psychology MP3-CD $22.99 9781511368537 Unabridged CD $24.99 9781511368520 04/12/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 12 and up MP3-CD $14.99 9781511364065 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511364058 04/19/2016 NON-FICTION / Social Science MP3-CD $14.99 9781511336406 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice A Fearless Heart How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. The Buddhist practice of mindfulness caught on in the west when we began to understand the everyday, personal benefits it brought us. Now, in this extraordinary book, the highly acclaimed thought leader and longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us that compassion can bring us even more. Based on the landmark course in compassion training Jinpa helped create at Stanford Medical School, A Fearless Heart shows us that we actually fear compassion. We worry that if we are too compassionate with others we will be taken advantage of, and if we are too compassionate with ourselves we will turn into slackers. Using science, insights from both classical Buddhist and western psychology, and stories both from others and from his own extraordinary life, Jinpa shows us how to train our compassion muscle to relieve stress, fight depression, improve our health, achieve our goals, and change our world. Vango: Between Sky and Earth Timothée de Fombelle, translated by Sarah Ardizzone Read by David deVries In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost. As he crisscrosses the continent via train, boat, and even the Graf Zeppelin airship, his adventures take him from Parisian rooftops to Mediterranean islands to Scottish forests. A mysterious, unforgettable, and romantic protagonist, Vango tells a thrilling story sure to captivate lovers of daring escapades and subversive heroes. Dreamland The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 74 it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive—and extremely addictive—miracle painkiller. Meanwhile a massive influx of black tar heroin—cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel— assaulted small towns and midsized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico. Introducing a memorable cast of characters—pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents—Quinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland. 04/19/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511362245 04/19/2016 NON-FICTION / Psychology Unabridged CD $29.99 9781522609568 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Oh Danny Boy Molly Murphy Mysteries (Book 5) Rhys Bowen In turn-of-the-century New York City, Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less complicated, less exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, whom she'd like to avoid completely. But when Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, the notorious city jail, he begs Molly to help prove he was framed, and after everything they've been through, she cannot turn him down. As she finds herself drawn further and further into the case, she begins to fear that Daniel's trouble is related to one of his investigations—catching the Eastside Ripper, a serial killer who is targeting prostitutes. Oh Danny Boy marks Edgar Award finalist Rhys Bowen's triumphant fifth installment in the award-winning Molly Murphy mystery series. Sensation The New Science of Physical Intelligence Thalma Lobel From colors and temperatures to heavy objects and tall people, a whole symphony of external stimuli exerts a constant influence on the way your mind works. Yet these effects have been hidden from you—until now. Drawing on her own work as well as from research across the globe, Dr. Thalma Lobel reveals how shockingly susceptible we are to sensory input from the world around us. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 75 An aggressive negotiator can be completely disarmed by holding a warm cup of tea or sitting in a soft chair. Clean smells promote moral behavior, but people are more likely to cheat on a test right after having taken a shower. Red-colored type causes us to fail exams, but red dresses make women sexier and teams wearing red jerseys win more games. We take questionnaires attached to heavy clipboards more seriously and believe people who like sweets to be nicer. Ultimately, the book’s message is startling: Though we claim ownership of our decisions, judgments, and values, they derive as much from our outside environment as from inside our minds. Now, Sensation empowers you to evaluate those outside forces in order to make better decisions in every facet of your personal and professional lives. 04/19/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $22.99 9781491590393 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781491590409 04/26/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511336420 Unabridged CD To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Simple Rules How to Thrive in a Complex World Donald Sull & Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Read by Jeff Cummings We struggle to manage complexity every day. We follow intricate diets to lose weight, juggle multiple remotes to operate our home entertainment systems, face proliferating data at the office, and hack through thickets of regulation at tax time. But complexity isn't destiny. Sull and Eisenhardt argue there's a better way: by developing a few simple yet effective rules, you can tackle even the most complex problems. Simple rules are a hands-on tool to achieve some of our most pressing personal and professional objectives, from overcoming insomnia to becoming a better manager or a smarter investor. Simple rules can help solve some of our most urgent social challenges from setting interest rates at the Federal Reserve to protecting endangered marine wildlife along California’s coast. Drawing on more than a decade of rigorous research, the authors provide a clear framework for developing effective rules and making them better over time. They find insights in unexpected places, from the way Tina Fey codified her experience working at Saturday Night Live into rules for producing 30 Rock (rule five: never tell a crazy person he’s crazy) to burglars’ rules to choose a house to rob (“avoid houses with a car parked outside”) to Japanese engineers using the foraging rules of slime molds to optimize Tokyo’s rail system. Whether you’re struggling with information overload, pursuing opportunities with limited resources, or just trying to change your bad habits, Simple Rules provides a powerful way to tame complexity. The Blossom Sisters Fern Michaels Read by Jeff Crawford Gus Hollister owes all his success to his feisty grandmother, Rose, and he knows it. It was Rose and her two sisters, Iris and Violet, who raised Gus, sent him to the best schools, and helped him start his own accounting business. Rose even bought the house Gus lives in with his wife, Elaine. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 76 $22.99 9781511336413 But now, Gus stands to lose everything—his home, his car, and his business. Worse, he’s alienated his beloved grandma, who tried to warn him about Elaine’s greedy, gold-digging ways. Gus, blinded by infatuation, refused to listen, and now Elaine has locked him out of the house he was foolish enough to put in her name. Heartsick and remorseful, Gus returns to Rose’s Virginia farmhouse seeking shelter. But it won’t be easy to make amends. Despite their pretty floral names, there’s nothing delicate about the Blossom sisters. Unbeknownst to Gus, they’ve also been running a very lucrative business from home and don’t want interference. Yet family and forgiveness go hand in hand, and Gus isn’t giving up. With the help of close friends, new associates, and some very sprightly ladies, Gus begins to repair the damage he’s done and help the residents of Blossom Farm begin the next phase of their business. He might even be finding the courage to love again. Because no matter how daunting starting over can be, the results can surpass your wildest expectations—especially when the Blossom sisters are in your corner.… 04/26/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 12 and up The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf MP3-CD $14.99 9781511364096 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511364089 04/26/2016 FICTION / Western MP3-CD $22.99 9781501231148 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781501231155 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Tribe Series Ambelin Kwaymullina They’re known as Firestarters. Boomers. Skychangers. The government calls them Illegals—children with inexplicable abilities—and detains them in menacing facilities so that society is kept out of harm’s way. Ashala Wolf and her Tribe of fellow Illegals have taken refuge in the Firstwood, a forest eerily conscious of its inhabitants, where they do their best to survive and where they are free to practice their abilities. But when Ashala is compelled to venture outside her territory, she is betrayed by a friend and captured by an enemy. Injured and vulnerable, with her own Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala is forced to succumb to a machine that will pull secrets from her mind. It’s only a matter of time before the machine ferrets out the location of the Tribe. Her betrayer, Justin Connor, is ever-present, saving her life when she wishes to die and watching her every move. Will the Tribe survive the interrogation of Ashala Wolf? The Legend of Caleb York Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Trinidad, New Mexico, is an oasis of civilization in an untamed desert ruled by outlaws, bank robbers and horse thieves. Sheriff Harry Gauge rules his town with an iron fist, a fast gun, and an unbridled thirst for power. George Cullen sweated blood to carve a ranch from the wilderness. He’d rather take a bullet to the gut than give in to the greedy sheriff’s land grab. But a cattle empire isn’t all Gauge wants—he also has his eye on Cullen’s beautiful daughter, Willa. Cullen gets word out that he’s hiring the fastest gunslinger money can buy to take on the sheriff. When a stranger rides in, townsfolk wonder if this is APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 77 the rancher’s hired gun. Wherever he came from, wherever he’s going, two things are clear—the stranger won’t be pushed…and his aim is deadly. 04/26/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction MP3-CD $14.99 9781511362269 Leviathan The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier Series Jack Campbell Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships—a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence—that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. As the government attempts to conceal the existence of the AI warships— and its role in their creation—Geary pursues them, treading a fine line between mutiny and obedience. But it soon becomes clear that his fleet is no match for the firepower of the machine-piloted armada. With the help of the Dancer species of aliens, Geary has tracked the AI ships to their secret base in the supposedly mythical Unity Alternate star system where his fleet, the last hope of the Alliance’s future, will end the conflict at any cost.… 04/26/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 15 and up Lying Out Loud MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609575 Kody Keplinger returns to the world of The DUFF in this companion novel! Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend’s house every night because she has nowhere else to go. Amy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with—secrets, clothes, even a nemesis named Ryder Cross. Ryder’s the new kid at Hamilton High and everything Sonny and Amy can’t stand—a prep-school snob. But Ryder has a weakness: Amy. So when Ryder emails Amy asking her out, the friends see it as a prank opportunity not to be missed. But without meaning to, Sonny ends up talking to Ryder all night online. And to her horror, she realizes that she might actually like him. Only there’s one small catch: He thinks he’s been talking to Amy. So Sonny comes up with an elaborate scheme to help Ryder realize that she’s the girl he’s really wanted all along. Can Sonny lie her way to the truth, or will all her lies end up costing her both Ryder and Amy? To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Kody Keplinger APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 78 04/26/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 15 and up The Secrets We Keep MP3-CD $14.99 9781501212246 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781501212239 Ella and Maddy Lawton are identical twins. Ella has spent her high school years living in popular Maddy's shadows, but she has never been envious of Maddy. In fact, she's chosen the quiet, safe confines of her sketchbook over the constant battle for attention that has defined Maddy's world. When—after a heated argument—Maddy and Ella get into a tragic accident that leaves her sister dead, Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by loved ones who believe she is Maddy. Feeling responsible for Maddy's death and everyone's grief, Ella makes a split-second decision to pretend to be Maddy. Soon, Ella realizes that Maddy's life was full of secrets. Caught in a web of lies, Ella is faced with two options—confess her deception or live her sister's life. 04/26/2016 FICTION / Thriller Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609599 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522609582 Trisha Leaver Stories to Keep You Up All Night James Patterson (editor) Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify. 04/26/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Undercover MP3-CD $22.99 9781511391030 For DEA Special Agent Marshall Everett, life as he knows it is over once a gunshot wound renders his arm useless. Barred forever from the undercover work he loves, he has nothing—no close friends, no family, no hometown or base, and no desire to settle for life behind a desk. He’s called to action in the most unlikely of places when he stumbles upon a beautiful girl burying an old steel box in a Parisian park. Drawn into the mystery, Marshall soon discovers that she is Ariana Gregory, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, who is trying to find herself again after being kidnapped and brainwashed by radical revolutionaries. But there are powerful forces at large who will not rest until they secure revenge, and Marshall and Ariana will face yet more trials—and another beginning—before they can truly bury the dark past and embark on a new life together. Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511390972 Abridged CD $22.99 9781455834358 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Danielle Steel APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 79 05/03/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Mystery Ages 11-14 The Edge of the Shadows MP3-CD $19.99 9781511368551 Whidbey Island, a place of secrets and mystery, is home now for Becca King, still in hiding from her criminal stepfather. But Becca and her friends have new worries, as a series of fires are being set, the latest causing a fatality. Is one of the newcomers to blame? Perhaps it’s Isis Martin’s brother, just back from a school for troubled kids, or Parker, a musician fired by his bandmates. Meanwhile, Becca herself continues to slowly explore her own paranormal abilities under the tutelage of Diana Kinsale. Elizabeth George, nominated for an Edgar and an Agatha award for The Edge of Nowhere, her first book set on Whidbey Island, proves once again that she is a suspense novelist without peer. Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368544 05/03/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511362276 05/03/2016 FICTION / Biographical MP3-CD $19.99 9781501234217 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781501234200 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Elizabeth George The Hollow Queen The Symphony of Ages Series (Book 8) Elizabeth Haydon Beset on all sides by the forces of the merchant emperor Talquist, the Cymrian Alliance finds itself in desperate straits. Rhapsody herself has joined the battle, wielding the Daystar Clarion, leaving her True Name in hiding with her infant son. Ashe tries to enlist the aid of the Sea Mages, within their Citadel of Scholarship lies the White Ivory tower, a spire that could hold the key to unraveling the full extent of Talquist's machinations. Achmed journeys to the reportedly unassailable palace of Jierna Tal, to kill emperor Talquist—all the while knowing that even if he succeeds, it may not be enough to stop the momentum of the war. As they struggle to untangle the web of Talquist's treachery, the leaders of the Cymrian alliance are met with obstacles at every turn. Rhapsody soon realizes that the end of this war will come at an unimaginable price: the lives of those she holds dearest. The House of Hawthorne Erika Robuck Beset by crippling headaches from a young age and endowed with a talent for drawing, Sophia is discouraged by her well-known New England family from pursuing a woman’s traditional roles. But from their first meeting, Nathaniel and Sophia begin an intense romantic relationship that despite many setbacks leads to their marriage. Together, they will cross continents, raise children, and experience all the beauty and tragedy of an exceptional partnership. Sophia’s vivid journals and her masterful paintings kindle a fire in Nathaniel, inspiring his writing. But their children’s needs and the death of loved ones steal Sophia’s energy and time for her art, fueling in her a perennial tug-of-war between fulfilling her domestic duties and pursuing her own desires. Spanning the years from the 1830s to the Civil War, and moving from APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 80 Massachusetts to England, Portugal, and Italy, The House of Hawthorne explores the tension within a famous marriage of two soulful, strong-willed people, each devoted to the other but also driven by a powerful need to explore the far reaches of their creative impulses. It is the story of a forgotten woman in history, who inspired one of the greatest writers of American literature.… 05/03/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Hover MP3-CD $14.99 9781491505816 Helicopter pilot Sara Denning joins an all-male navy battle group with little fanfare—and that’s just the way she likes it. Her philosophy is simple—blend in, be competent, and above all, never do anything to stand out as a woman. But somewhere along the way, she lost herself—her feminine, easy-going soul now buried under so many defensive layers, she can’t reach it anymore. When she meets the strong, self-assured Lieutenant Eric Marxen, those defenses start to falter. He coordinates flight operations for SEAL Team One and they begin to request Sara exclusively as the pilot for their training exercises. The end mission is so secret, even she doesn’t know the reason behind her mandated participation. With her career on the line she is able to compartmentalize her feelings, but when her life is on the line, can she follow the orders of her heart? Unabridged CD $22.99 9781491505809 05/03/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics MP3-CD $19.99 9781501238710 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781501238703 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Anne A. Wilson Misbehaving The Making of Behavioral Economics Richard Thaler Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth—and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. More importantly, our misbehavior has serious consequences. Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments. Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behavior, Thaler enlightens listeners about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioral economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV game shows, the NFL draft, and businesses like Uber. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 81 Laced with antic stories of Thaler’s spirited battles with the bastions of traditional economic thinking, Misbehaving is a singular look into profound human foibles. When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers, and policy makers are both profound and entertaining. 05/03/2016 NON-FICTION / History MP3-CD $22.99 9781501238222 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781501238215 05/03/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economics Unabridged CD $22.99 9781480574762 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice One Nation Under God How Corporate America Invented Christian America Kevin M. Kruse Conventional wisdom holds that America has been a Christian nation since the Founding Fathers. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the idea of “Christian America” is nothing more than a myth—and a relatively recent one at that. The assumption that America was, is, and always will be a Christian nation dates back no further than the 1930s, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to FDR’s New Deal. With the full support of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, these activists—the forerunners of the Religious Right—propelled religion into the public sphere. Church membership skyrocketed; Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In God We Trust” the country’s official motto. For the first time, America became a thoroughly religious nation. Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how the comingling of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics today. Rise of the Robots Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future Martin Ford In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making "good" jobs obsolete. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as it undertakes electronic discovery, and is soon to do the same for radiologists. And that, no doubt, will only be the beginning. In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation? APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 82 The more Pollyannaish, or just simply uninformed, might imagine that this industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new devices of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that is absolutely not the case. Increasingly, machines will be able to take care of themselves, and fewer jobs will be necessary. The effects of this transition could be shattering. Unless we begin to radically reassess the fundamentals of how our economy works, we could have both an enormous population of the unemployed-the truck drivers, warehouse workers, cooks, lawyers, doctors, teachers, programmers, and many, many more, whose labors have been rendered superfluous by automated and intelligent machines-and a general economy that, bereft of consumers, implodes under the weight of its own contradictions. We are at an inflection point-do we continue to listen to those who argue that nothing fundamental has changed, and take a bad bet on a miserable future, or do we begin to discuss what we must do to ensure all of us, and not just the few, benefit from the awesome power of artificial intelligence? The time to choose is now. 05/03/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368568 Spellstorm Elminster Series Ed Greenwood Rumors race around Cormyr regarding the mythical Lost Spell, a powerful enchantment designed centuries ago by the presumed dead god of spells—a spell long thought lost to the ages. Found by some magic-less merchant, rumor has it the Lost Spell is to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. It is a powerful lure, and archwizards of every stripe descend upon the merchant, only to be trapped with him inside his manor by a vicious spellstorm—escape impossible, and their magic useless with the interference from the storm. Moreover—they find themselves faced with the infamous Elminster of Shadowdale, who claims he’s just there to decide who gets the Lost Spell, but who clearly has an agenda of his own. But before Elimster can put whatever plan he has in motion, archwizards start dying. 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / Autobiography & Personal Memoirs / Music Another Little Piece of My Heart MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368605 In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein approached The Village Voice with a novel idea. "I want to be a rock critic," he said. "What's that?" the editor replied. It was a logical question, since rock criticism didn't yet exist. In the weekly column he would produce for the Voice, Goldstein became the first person to write regularly in a major publication about the music that changed our lives. He believed deeply in the power of rock, and, long before it was acceptable, he championed the idea that this music was a serious art form. From his unique position in journalism, he saw the full arc of events that shaped To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice My Life of Rock and Revolution in the Sixties Richard Goldstein APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 83 culture and politics in the 1960s—and participated in them, too. He toured with Janis Joplin, spent a day at the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco, and dropped acid with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. He was present for Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the student uprising at Columbia, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. He was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer and took Susan Sontag to her first disco. Goldstein developed close relationships with several rock legends—Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, to name two—and their early deaths came as wrenching shocks, fueling his disillusionment as he watched the music he loved rapidly evolve from a communal rite to a vast industry—and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval fade away. 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Historical Ages 11-14 MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609612 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781522609605 05/10/2016 FICTION / Romance / Paranormal MP3-CD $19.99 9781511324540 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511324533 Abridged CD $22.99 9781511324526 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Black Dove, White Raven Elizabeth Wein Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes—in a place where he won't be discriminated against because of the color of his skin. But in 1930s America, a white woman raising a black adoptive son alongside a white daughter is too often seen as a threat. Seeking a home where her children won't be held back by ethnicity or gender, Rhoda brings Em and Teo to Ethiopia, and all three fall in love with the beautiful, peaceful country. But that peace is shattered by the threat of war with Italy, and teenage Em and Teo are drawn into the conflict. Will their devotion to their country, its culture and people, and each other be their downfall or their salvation? In the tradition of her award-winning and bestselling Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein brings us another thrilling and deeply affecting novel that explores the bonds of friendship, the resilience of young pilots, and the strength of the human spirit. Dance of the Gods Nora Roberts Read by Dick Hill Raised in a family of demon hunters, Blair Murphy has her own personal demons to fight—the father who trained, then abandoned her, and the fiancé who walked out on her after learning what she is. Now she finds herself training a sorcerer from 12th century Ireland, a witch from modern day New York, a scholar, and a shape changer from the mythical land of Geall, while trying to keep herself from staking the sixth of their circle and host: a vampire sired by Lilith, the vampire queen they’ve been charged with defeating on Samhain. No stranger to butt-kicking, Blair finds herself taking a good whipping when it comes to that handsome and flirtatious Geallian, Larkin. And a couple of run-ins with Lilith’s right-hand gal gives Blair more than she reckoned for, mentally and physically. But will she be able to stay afloat long enough to APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 84 defeat Lilith’s loyal in pre-battle bouts? Or will she find herself falling for the one thing she vowed never to give in to again? If the vampires don’t do her in, Larkin is certainly up to the task. 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Historical Ages 8-12 MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609629 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 7-10 MP3-CD $14.99 9781480596078 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781480596122 Dash Kirby Larson From Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII. Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of antiJapanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsi never expects to lose her home—or her beloved dog, Dash. But, as World War II rages and people of Japanese descent are forced into incarceration camps, Mitsi is separated from Dash, her classmates, and life as she knows it. The camp is a crowded and unfamiliar place, whose dusty floors, seemingly endless lines, and barbed wire fences begin to unravel the strong Kashino family ties. With the help of a friendly neighbor back home, Mitsi remains connected to Dash in spite of the hard times, holding on to the hope that the war will end soon and life will return to normal. Though they've lost their home, will the Kashino family also lose their sense of family? And will Mitsi and Dash ever be reunited? Dog Beach Unleashed The Seagate Summers Series Lisa Greenwald Remy, Micayla, Bennett, and the C Twins are back on Seagate Island for another summer of beach traditions, new and old. A new tradition: keeping Remy's dog-sitting business going. Remy loves seeing her dog friends (and her real friends, too), but the doldrums start to sink in when it turns into the rainiest summer on record, with evacuation constantly threatening to ruin the world's most perfect vacation spot. Tempers are short and dogs are bored. What can one 12-year-old do to create summer magic when the summer doesn't seem to be showing up? 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 13 and up The Fixer MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368575 When 16-year-old Tess Kendrick is sent to live with her older sister, Ivy, she has no idea that the infamous Ivy Kendrick is Washington, DC's number-one "fixer"—known for making politicians' scandals go away for a price. No sooner does Tess enroll at Hardwicke Academy than she unwittingly follows in her sister's footsteps and becomes DC's premier high school fixer, solving problems for elite teens. To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Jennifer Lynn Barnes APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 85 Secrets pile up as each sister lives a double life…until their worlds come crashing together, and Tess finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy with one of her classmates and a client of Ivy's. Suddenly there is much more on the line than good grades, money, or politics, and the price for this fix might be more than Tess is willing to pay. 05/10/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368612 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / True Crime MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368599 05/10/2016 NON-FICTION / Political Science MP3-CD $19.99 9781511310765 Unabridged CD $24.99 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Keeper Mal Peet In a small newspaper office in South America, Paul Faustino, a veteran sports reporter, begins an exclusive interview with El Gato, the World Cup-winning soccer phenom. Over the course of the long night, El Gato tells the story of how an unspectacular teenager in a poor logging town became the world's most accomplished goalkeeper. It is a tale filled with tension, hunger, and magic, set in a mythic corner of the jungle. But above all it is a tale about El Gato's ghostly, but very real mentor: the Keeper. The Spy’s Son The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia Bryan Denson Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons—father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997, Nicholson became the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. But his duplicity didn’t stop there. While behind the bars of a federal prison, the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan. When asked to smuggle messages out of prison to Russian contacts, Nathan saw an opportunity to be heroic and to make his father proud. Wages of Rebellion The Moral Imperative of Revolt Chris Hedges Read by David deVries Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 86 9781511310741 society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class—investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance. Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent philosophers, historians, and literary figures he shows not only the harbingers of a coming crisis but also the nascent seeds of rebellion. Hedges’ message is clear: popular uprisings in the United States and around the world are inevitable in the face of environmental destruction and wealth polarization. Focusing on the stories of rebels from around the world and throughout history, Hedges investigates what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Utilizing the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, Hedges describes the motivation that guides the actions of rebels as “sublime madness”—the state of passion that causes the rebel to engage in an unavailing fight against overwhelmingly powerful and oppressive forces. For Hedges, resistance is carried out not for its success, but as a moral imperative that affirms life. Those who rise up against the odds will be those endowed with this “sublime madness.” From South African activists who dedicated their lives to ending apartheid, to contemporary anti-fracking protests in Alberta, Canada, to whistleblowers in pursuit of transparency, Wages of Rebellion shows the cost of a life committed to speaking the truth and demanding justice. Hedges has penned an indispensable guide to rebellion. 05/17/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction Seveneves MP3-CD $22.99 9781469246864 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781469230962 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Neal Stephenson Read by Mary Robinette Kowal & Will Damron A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain.…Five thousand years later, their progeny— seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown…to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 87 05/24/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women MP3-CD $14.99 9781511362313 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511362306 05/24/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $14.99 9781511375573 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511375566 Abridged CD $22.99 9781480526501 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Apple Orchard A Bella Vista Novel Susan Wiggs Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother’s beloved necklace—despite Tess’s advice. To Annelise, the jewel’s value is in its memories. But Tess’s own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when she discovers the grandfather she never knew is in a coma. And that she has been named in his will to inherit half of Bella Vista, a hundred-acre apple orchard in the magical Sonoma town called Archangel. The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen. A half sister she’s never heard of. Against the rich landscape of Bella Vista, Tess begins to discover a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family, of the warm earth beneath her bare feet. A world where family comes first and the roots of history run deep. A place where falling in love is not only possible, but inevitable. And in a season filled with new experiences, Tess begins to see the truth in something Annelise once told her: if you don’t believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you’ve not made the right kind of memories. Shadow Play Eve Duncan Series Iris Johansen Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity and investment in the case puzzle her. But when the ghost of the girl begins communicating with her, Eve finds herself wrapped up in the case more intensely than she could have ever imagined. Not since Bonnie has Eve had such an experience, and suddenly she finds herself determined to solve the murder and help the little girl find peace. Except that the killer is still out there, and he knows Eve is on the case. And he won’t rest until anything and anyone that could reveal his identity is eliminated.… APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 88 05/24/2016 NON-FICTION / Biography / Sports MP3-CD $22.99 9781501226526 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511362337 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511362320 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Ty Cobb A Terrible Beauty Charles Leerhsen Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the numbers don’t tell half of Cobb’s tale. The Georgia Peach was by far the most thrilling player of the era: “Ty Cobb could cause more excitement with a base on balls than Babe Ruth could with a grand slam,” one columnist wrote. When the Hall of Fame began in 1936, he was the first player voted in. But Cobb was also one of the game’s most controversial characters. He got in a lot of fights, on and off the field, and was often accused of being overly aggressive. In his day, even his supporters acknowledged that he was a fierce and fiery competitor. Because his philosophy was to “create a mental hazard for the other man,” he had his enemies, but he was also widely admired. After his death in 1961, however, something strange happened: his reputation morphed into that of a monster—a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. How did this happen? Who is the real Ty Cobb? Setting the record straight, Charles Leerhsen pushed aside the myths, traveled to Georgia and Detroit, and re-traced Cobb’s journey, from the shy son of a professor and state senator who was progressive on race for his time, to America’s first true sports celebrity. In the process, he tells of a life overflowing with incident and a man who cut his own path through his times—a man we thought we knew but really didn’t. The Beekeeper's Ball A Bella Vista Novel Susan Wiggs Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school—a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. He's always been better at exposing the lives of others than showing his own closely guarded heart, but the pleasures of small-town life and the searing sensuality of Isabel's kitchen coax him into revealing a few truths of his own. The dreamy sweetness of summer is the perfect time of year for a grand family wedding and the enchanting Beekeeper's Ball, bringing emotions to a head in a story where the past and present collide to create an unexpected new future. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 89 05/31/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781522606742 Chow Down A Melanie Travis Mystery Laurien Berenson If Melanie Travis was planning on a quiet family summer with her Standard Poodle Faith, son Davey, and new husband Sam, her plans are about to turn upside down. An unexpected competition, a trip to New York, and—oh yes, a murder—later, Melanie finds herself in a choke collar of deceit and corruption. When she receives the letter from the Champions Dog Food Company informing her that Faith has been selected as a finalist in the "All Dogs Are Champions" contest, Melanie is mystified—until she discovers it was Davey who entered Faith in the contest. At the reception where they meet the other finalists, Melanie immediately picks up the scent that this pack is a bone's throw away from a major dog fight. And when Larry Kim, one of the finalists, dies in a suspicious fall, something smells rotten to Melanie. With the final decision for a winner drawing near and the competition getting downright ferocious, Melanie and Faith will have to watch their backs— because Melanie's digging may well unearth a barking-mad killer who'll do anything to win. 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance / Suspense The Collector MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368674 As a professional house-sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down—not her work, not a home, and definitely not a relationship. She spends her life moving from one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend’s Manhattan apartment. And though she can appreciate her clients’ extraordinary homes, their expensive collections, and their adorable pets, Lila has never longed for possessions of her own. Everything she has, including her heart, is portable. But when she witnesses a possible murder-suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as Lila knows it takes a dramatic turn. Artist Ashton Archer knows his charming, clever, and impulsive brother couldn’t have killed his girlfriend—or taken his own life. His hope of unraveling what happened lies with Lila, the only eyewitness. And even buried in grief, Ash longs to paint the woman whose deep, dark eyes seem to hold endless reserves of strength and a fiery passion. Chalking up their intense attraction to the heat of the moment, Lila agrees to help Ash in trying to find out who murdered his brother and why. From the penthouses of Manhattan to grand Italian villas, their investigation draws them into a rarefied circle where priceless antiques are bought, sold, gambled away, and stolen, where what you possess is who you are, and where what you desire becomes a deadly obsession. Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511368667 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Nora Roberts APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 90 05/31/2016 FICTION / Science Fiction MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368704 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368698 05/31/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511368650 05/31/2016 NON-FICTION / Autobiography & Personal Memoir MP3-CD $22.99 9781511361255 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The End of All Things An Old Man’s War Novel John Scalzi Humans expanded into space…only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement…for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time—a couple of decades at most, before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness to drive humanity to ruin. And there's another problem: a group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other—and against their own kind—for their own unknown reasons. In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and keep humanity's union intact…or else risk oblivion and extinction—and the end of all things. Exclusive Godmothers Series Fern Michaels When Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots, Sophie, and Mavis are concerned that the prestigious Dr. Sameer’s budding romance with Ida may have something to do with his ailing bank balance. And Abby’s attempted makeover of the celebrity magazine The Informer into the most talked-about tabloid in town could end more than just her career. But the Godmothers wouldn’t be the Godmothers if they weren’t pulling a few behind-the-scenes strings, and Abby’s hopes of changing the fortunes of The Informer are still alive. Yet it’ll take an assist from a source no one could have predicted, let alone see, to secure a story that will shake Tinseltown to its very core. The Filthy Truth Andrew Dice Clay In this unapologetic and uncensored autobiography, Andrew Dice Clay is ready to set the record straight. He was the eighties’ answer to Lenny Bruce, with material that stretched the boundaries of decency and good taste to their breaking point, and in turn became the most vilified stand-up comic of all time. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 91 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781491585399 From humble beginnings Andrew Dice Clay roared to fame, becoming the only comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row, but his edgy material quickly caught up to him. His billboards were defaced; the premiere of his film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane was cancelled; some of the cast members of Saturday Night Live threatened to walk off when he guest-hosted the program; and he was famously banned for life from MTV. For almost twenty years he stayed out of the spotlight, but like a real life Rocky, Dice would not stay down. Spurred by a role written for him by the creator of Entourage and a critically acclaimed starring role in Woody Allen’s film Blue Jasmine, Dice is back in the spotlight and selling out theaters. Filled with no-holds-barred humor as well as plenty of never-before-shared stories from his comedic career as well as his friendships with Howard Stern, Sam Kinison, Mickey Rourke, Sylvester Stallone, Slash, and many others, The Filthy Truth delivers a knockout punch. 05/31/2016 NON-FICTION / Medicine / Health The Ghost in My Brain Unabridged CD $29.99 9781501230431 05/31/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368636 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back Elliott, Clark - Morey, Arthur In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn’t walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than he could manage. As a result of one final effort to recover, he crossed paths with two brilliant Chicago-area research-clinicians—one a specialized optometrist, the other a cognitive psychologist—working on the leading edge of brain plasticity. He was substantially improved within weeks. Remarkably, Elliott kept detailed notes throughout his experience, from the moment of impact to the final stages of his recovery, astounding documentation that is the basis of this fascinating audiobook. The Ghost in My Brain gives hope to the millions who suffer from head injuries each year, and provides a unique and informative window into the world’s most complex computational device: the human brain. In Dublin's Fair City A Molly Murphy Mystery (Book 6) Rhys Bowen Molly Murphy's beau Captain Daniel Sullivan may be out of jail on bail, but he's still a ways from clearing his name, and his foul mood has Molly in search of a little breathing room when providence steps in in the form of a proposition from New York City's renowned theatrical impresario Tommy Burke. America has been very good to Tommy, and now that he's getting on in years, he'd like to pass some of that good fortune on to his family back in APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 92 Ireland. That's, of course, if Molly can find the long-lost baby sister his family left in the care of a parish priest when they fled the famine and avoid the warrant out for her arrest that forced Molly to flee herself. Tempted by the prospect of going home for the first time in years and putting her fledgling detective agency on firm financial ground, Molly throws caution to the wind and climbs aboard the White Start Liner Majestic with hopes of sneaking on and off the isle without raising a peep. But even before Molly lands on the other side of the Atlantic, Broadway's leading actress, Oona Sheehan, has gone missing from the ship, and her maid is found dead in her cabin. 05/31/2016 NON-FICTION / True Crime Abridged CD $14.99 9781511364904 Lethal Guardian M. William Phelps A real estate lawyer in Connecticut’s moneyed seaside communities, Beth Ann Carpenter, 30, had beauty, brains, and success. But she wanted more – namely guardianship of her two-year-old niece, Rebecca, daughter of Beth’s estranged sister, Kim. When Kim married Anson “Buzz” Clinton, 28, a former male exotic dancer deemed an unsuitable guardian by the Carpenter family, Beth Ann became obsessed with the idea that only his death could ensure that she and her parents would get custody of the child. On March 10, 1994, along a lonely stretch of road, Clinton was shot five times. His body was discovered by passing motorists. Misfit Murderers Behind Clinton’s death lay a bizarre murder-for-hire conspiracy that found privileged professionals and local misfits joined in a cold-blooded plot against an innocent man. This homicidal group included attorney Haiman Clein, 52. A husband, father, and successful businessman, Clein was Beth Ann Carpenter’s boss – and also her sexually-obsessed, cocaine-snorting, murderously obedient lover. The paid killers were two buddies, organizer Joe Fremut and triggerman Mark Despres, who brought his 15-year-old son Christopher along for the hit. The aftermath of this brutal crime would set investigators and prosecutors on a long and twisted path strewn with lies, treachery, and deceit that would cross the Atlantic Ocean before finally bringing justice home. 05/31/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 12 and up Life is Funny MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609643 Why does Gingerbread always have a smile on his face? “Because life is funny,” he tells Keisha. But for her—and almost everyone else in her Brooklyn neighborhood—there doesn’t seem to be much to laugh about. China, Ebony, and Grace are best friends, but Grace’s mother isn’t crazy about her being friends with two girls who aren’t white, and each cut Ebony makes on her wrist seems to drive them even further apart. Just across the schoolyard there’s Eric who has to raise his younger brother Mickey, even though no one expects him to amount to anything. Meanwhile, Sonia’s Muslim parents expect everything of her, and it may be more than she is able to give after she suffers a shattering loss. Unabridged CD $19.99 9781522609636 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice E. R. Frank APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 93 When Drew brings his father’s Jaguar into Sam’s family’s auto body shop across town they seem to be from opposite sides of the tracks, but Drew’s the one hiding a dark family secret. And he’s not the only one. 05/31/2016 FICTION / Western MP3-CD $14.99 9781480521537 Unabridged CD $14.99 9781480507081 05/31/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Historical Ages 14 and up MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368629 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Long High Noon Loren D. Estleman Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank’s bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy’s assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through the Old West—through soon-to-be ghost towns and major cities; cattle ranches and mountain cabins; brothels and fishing boats; jailhouses and movie sets. Even their marriages have fallen victim to the feud. The story of their long-term hatred well known throughout the country, Frank and Randy are approached (separately, of course) by Abraham Cripplehorn with a proposition. With the popular Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show a raging success, why not publicize their next duel and sell tickets to the event? Winner take all, in more ways than one. Frank and Randy make a date for death…but will they be able to wait for the show? And could it be that their decades-long thirst for revenge is the only thing they are living for? The Notorious Pagan Jones Nina Berry Pagan Jones went from America's sweetheart to fallen angel in one fateful night in 1960: the night a car accident killed her whole family. Pagan was behind the wheel and driving drunk. Nine months later she's stuck in the Lighthouse Reformatory for Wayward Girls and tortured by her guilt—not to mention the sadistic Miss Edwards, who takes special delight in humiliating the once-great Pagan Jones. But all of that is about to change. Pagan's old agent shows up with a mysterious studio executive, Devin Black, and an offer. Pagan will be released from juvenile detention if she accepts a juicy role in a comedy directed by award-winning director Bennie Wexler. The shoot starts in West Berlin in just three days. If Pagan's going to do it, she has to decide fast—and she has to agree to a court-appointed "guardian," the handsome yet infuriating Devin, who's too young, too smooth, too sophisticated to be some studio flack. The offer's too good to be true, Berlin's in turmoil, and Devin Black knows way too much about her— there's definitely something fishy going on. But if anyone can take on a APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 94 divided city, a scheming guardian, and the criticism of a world that once adored her, it's the notorious Pagan Jones. What could go wrong? 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance / Contemporary Summer Days MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368643 Locked in an unexpected land dispute, Rafe Stryker is trapped in the one place he vowed never to return to – the Castle Ranch in Fool’s Gold, California. He made millions facing ruthless adversaries in the boardroom, but nothing could’ve prepared him to go head-to-head against stubborn, beautiful Heidi Simpson. No one is more surprised than Rafe to discover that he’s finding Heidi – and life as a cowboy – much more compelling than he wants to admit. For Heidi, the Castle Ranch is the home she’s always wanted. After a life on the road, the vivacious blonde has finally put down roots. She won’t give that up without a fight, not even for a man whose late-night kisses make her yearn to be a little less…wholesome. As the two turn from passionate adversaries to passionate, period, they’ll discover that summer love can last a lifetime. 05/31/2016 FICTION / Thriller Undone MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368735 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511368728 Abridged CD $14.99 9781511368711 Susan Mallery Karin Slaughter In this suspense masterpiece, Karin Slaughter weaves together the powerful human stories of three unforgettable characters from her New York Times bestselling novels Faithless and Fractured, who collide here for the first time in an electrifying race against unspeakable evil. When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim. 05/31/2016 FICTION / Romance / Western Untamed MP3-CD $14.99 9781491525036 Stanton Rourke lives life on the edge. The steely mercenary is dangerous in every way…especially to Clarisse Carrington's heart. She and Rourke were playmates as children, but she's not the innocent girl he once knew. When tragedy robbed Clarisse of her entire family, her life was changed forever. Besides, she's a grown woman now, and there are secrets that hold her back from succumbing to her pursuer. Unabridged CD $29.99 9781491525029 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Diana Palmer APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 95 Abridged CD $14.99 9781491525050 06/07/2016 FICTION / Thriller MP3-CD $22.99 9781501231339 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781501231322 06/07/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368759 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice As she struggles to keep her distance, sparks as hot as a Texas summer fly between them. But danger is following Clarisse, leaving her no choice but to rely on Rourke, even as the old wounds lying dormant between them flare up again. Brush Back A V. I. Warshawski Novel Sara Paretsky No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she’d be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that’s precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo’s plea for help. For six stormy weeks back in high school, V. I. thought she was in love with Frank. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot about him until the day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his kid sister, Annie, to death. Stella Guzzo was an angry, uncooperative prisoner and did a full twenty-five years for her daughter’s murder. Newly released from prison, Stella is looking for exoneration, so Frank asks V. I. for help. V. I. doesn’t want to get involved. Stella hated the Warshawskis, in particular V. I.’s adored mother, Gabriella. But life has been hard on Frank and on V. I.’s other childhood friends, still stuck on the hardscrabble streets around the dead steel mills, and V. I. agrees to ask a few questions. Those questions lead her straight into the vipers’ nest of Illinois politics she’s wanted to avoid. When V. I. takes a beating at a youth meeting in her old hood, her main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find answers. From a High Tower Mercedes Lackey Sixteen years after her fabled escape from the tower she was locked away in, Giselle has lived an isolated life. Her adoptive mother is an Earth Master, and uses her expertise to train Giselle in her own Air magic. But when a charming man appears to woo her, Giselle’s sheltered view of the world is shattered. For the deceitful stranger is far from a shining knight, a lesson learned after her mother saves Giselle from his attempted assault. Deciding that she will never be vicitmized, Giselle enters shooting contests disguised as a young man to discover the whereabouts of her attacker. And when she finds him, she will make him pay.… APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 96 06/07/2016 FICTION / Mystery MP3-CD $22.99 9781491588581 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781491542668 06/07/2016 JUVENILE FICTION / Classics Ages 6-9 MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368742 06/07/2016 NON-FICTION / Business & Economis MP3-CD $22.99 9781511368773 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511368766 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Manhattan Mayhem An Anthology of Tales in Celebration of the 70th year of the Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark (editor) Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories compiled and edited by Mary Higgins Clark—with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Ben H. Winters, and others. From the streets of Harlem to the winding paths of Central Park to the high-rise towers of Wall Street, Manhattan is brimming with motivation, opportunity, means…and unsolved mysteries. In this new collection of stories, brought together by Mystery Writers of America and edited by bestselling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark, neighborhoods in the borough come to life—or death—with their own cases to be cracked. From the Flatiron District (Lee Child) to Greenwich Village (Jeffrey Deaver), from Times Square (Brendan DuBois) to the NY Public Library (Susan Isaacs), this collection of fifteen original short stories will lead listeners all over the Big Apple. The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen Read by Julia Whelan Audible's 2014 Narrator of the Year Julia Whelan performs one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved fairy tales, The Snow Queen. This classic tale is a fantastical fable of two dear friends—one of whom goes astray and is literally lost to the north woods, while the other undertakes an epic journey to rescue him. This charming, strange, and wonderful story is a timeless allegory about growing up and the challenges of staying true to one's self, and it served as the wintry inspiration for the blockbuster hit Frozen. Who Gets What—And Why The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design Alvin E. Roth Read by Peter Berkrot A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities—both mundane and life-changing—in which money may play little or no role. If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you’ve participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers. But what about other kinds of “goods,” like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google? This is the territory of matching markets, where “sellers” and “buyers” must choose each other, and price isn’t the only factor determining who gets what. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 97 Alvin E. Roth is one of the world’s leading experts on matching markets. He has even designed several of them, including the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients. In Who Gets What—And Why, Roth reveals the matching markets hidden around us and shows how to recognize a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions. 06/14/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368780 06/14/2016 FICTION MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609650 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice The Blue Between Sky and Water Susan Abulhawa It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother, Mamdouh, tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Mariam, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing. When Israeli forces gather outside the town's borders, nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend. Soon the village is burning, and, amid smoke and ash, the family must take the long road to Gaza, in a walk that will test them to their limits. Sixty years later Mamdouh's granddaughter, Nur, is living in America. She falls in love with a married man, a doctor who works in Palestine, and follows him to Gaza. There she meets Alwan, the mother of Khaled—a boy trapped in his own body, unable to wake up from a deep blue dream. It is through her that Nur will at last discover the ties of kinship that transcend distance—and even death. The Loved Ones Mary-Beth Hughes From the outside in, the Devlin family lead almost-perfect lives. Dashing father Nick is a successful businessman long married to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and throws dinner parties while daughter Lily attends Catholic school and is disciplined into modesty by the nuns. Under the surface, however, the Devlins are silently broken by the death of their little boy. As Nick's older brother, a man driven by callous and rapacious urges, inducts Nick into the cut-throat world of cosmetics, the Devlin family are further fragmented by betrayals and victims of the cruelest kind of hurt. In The Loved Ones, Hughes takes her gimlet eye deep into the secret places between men and women to give an incisive portrayal of one family's struggle to stay together against stacked odds of deception, adultery, and loss. Years in the making, this is Hughes' astonishing and compulsively listenable breakout, a sweepingly cinematic novel of relationships defined by an era of glamour and decadence. APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 98 06/21/2016 Amazon/Brilliance Publishing FICTION / Horror The Unnoticeables Unabridged CD $22.99 9781491530870 There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns and remove the redundancies, and the problem that is “you” gets solved. Carey doesn’t much like that idea. As a punk living in New York City, 1977, Carey is sick and tired of watching strange kids with unnoticeable faces abduct his friends. He doesn’t care about the rumors of tar-monsters in the sewers or unkillable psychopaths invading the punk scene—all he wants is to drink cheap beer and dispense ass-kickings. Kaitlyn isn’t sure what she’s doing with her life. She came to Hollywood in 2013 to be a stunt woman, but last night a former teen heartthrob tried to eat her, her best friend has just gone missing, and there’s an angel outside her apartment. Whatever she plans on doing with her life, it should probably happen in the few remaining minutes she has left. There are angels. There are demons. They are the same thing. It’s up to Carey and Kaitlyn to stop them. The survival of the human race is in their hands. We are, all of us, well and truly screwed. 06/28/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women The Beach House MP3-CD $14.99 9781522610199 Caretta Rutledge thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother—coming just as her own life is spinning out of control—has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide “turtle lady” and renews old acquaintances long thought lost. But it is in reconnecting with her mother that she will learn life’s most precious lessons—true love involves sacrifice, family is forever, and the mistakes of the past can be forgiven, Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511311786 06/28/2016 FICTION / Fantasy MP3-CD $22.99 9781501257018 Unabridged CD $29.99 9781501257032 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Robert Brockway Mary Alice Monroe The First Confessor The Legend of Magda Searus Terry Goodkind Married to the powerful leader of her people, safe among those gifted with great ability, Magda Searus is protected from a distant world descending into war. But when her husband, a man who loved life and loved her, unexpectedly commits suicide, she suddenly finds herself alone. Because she is ungifted herself, without her husband she no longer has standing among her people, and she finds herself isolated in a society that seems to be crumbling around her. Despite her grief, she is driven to find the reasons behind why her husband would do such a thing—why he would abandon her and her people at such a APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 99 profoundly dangerous time. Though she is not gifted, she begins to discover that there may be more to her husband’s suicide than anyone knew. What she finds next, no one is willing to believe. Without anyone to help her, she knows that she must embark on a mission to find a mysterious spiritist, if she even exists, so that she may speak with the dead. This quest may also be her last chance to unravel what is really behind the mysterious events befalling her people. What she discovers along the way is that the war is going far worse than she had known, and that the consequences of defeat will be more terrifying for her and her people than she could have imagined. As mortal peril begins to close in around her, Magda learns that she is somehow the key to her people’s salvation. 06/28/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women MP3-CD $14.99 9781511368797 The Glass Kitchen Linda Francis Lee Read by Julia Whelan Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant her grandmother built decades ago. But after a string of betrayals and the loss of her legacy, Portia is determined to start a new life with her sisters in Manhattan…and never cook again. But when she moves into a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side, she meets twelve-year-old Ariel and her widowed father Gabriel, a man with his hands full trying to raise two daughters on his own. Soon, a promise made to her sisters forces Portia back into a world of magical food and swirling emotions, where she must confront everything she has been running from. What seems so simple on the surface is anything but when long-held secrets are revealed, rivalries exposed, and the promise of new love stirs to life like chocolate mixing with cream. 06/28/2016 FICTION / Contemporary Women Precious Gifts MP3-CD $22.99 9781511391054 Paul Parker was the ultimate bon vivant, charismatic but feckless, who left his wealthy wife and three beautiful daughters wounded and wary of men. But after his death, Paul shows surprising insight in the bequests he leaves to each. Knowing that Veronique’s wealth is reserved for emergencies and special cases, so as to build the sense of responsibility he failed to provide, Paul aims to address their daughters’ immediate needs in his will. To Timmie, he bequeaths the necessary funds to open her own facility to serve her homeless and underprivileged clients. To Juliette, enough to hire a staff to manage her bakery, so she can have time to get away, travel and live more fully. And to Joy, the money to hire a talent manager and funds for two years to get her acting career off the ground. But while Paul may have shown his daughters more support and affection in his final will than he ever did in his actual life, he leaves Veronique with a shocking revelation that shatters her remaining illusions about the understanding they had shared: the existence of a now-adult daughter who’d been born three years before their divorce. Yet Unabridged CD $29.99 9781511391047 Abridged CD $22.99 9781455834389 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Danielle Steel APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 100 this too, is a gift, as it propels Veronique to at last forge a life of her own— and to open her heart to the magnetic photographer she meets in the course of her journey. 06/30/2016 JUVENILE FICTION Ages 12 and up Friend is Not a Verb MP3-CD $14.99 9781522609674 Henry “Hen” Birnbaum’s sister, Sarah, missing for over a year, has come home unexpectedly, with no explanation at all. But he can’t leave well enough alone; Hen needs to figure out why she disappeared, even if she won’t tell him. It’s not like he has anything better to do. His girlfriend just dumped him and kicked him out of their band. He can’t play the bass worth crap anyway. His social life consists of night after night of VH1 marathons with his best friend and next-door neighbor, the neurotic Emma Wood.Hen’s sure the answers to Sarah’s lost year lie with Gabriel Stern—Sarah’s friend from college who also happens to be a twenty-two-year-old fugitive from the law and Hen’s bass teacher…too bad he can’t play bass worth crap either. A month into his quest, Hen has had countless consultations with Emma, watched approximately fifty-three reruns of Behind the Music, and made one new Facebook friend. Unfortunately, he’s no closer to any revelations about his sister. The thing is, he’s too distracted to notice it, but while Hen’s been looking for all the answers, something mind-blowing happened: He got a life. Unabridged CD $19.99 9781522609667 To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice Daniel Ehrenhaft APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 101 TOP AUDIO TITLES – COLLECTIONS – APRIL–JUNE 2016: 04/26/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $19.99 9781511394130 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511394123 Exposed Night Shift, Night Shadow Nora Roberts Read by Kate Rudd From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts come two mesmerizing stories of desire and suspense Night Shift Her voice is like whiskey, smooth and potent, but it's her contradictions that fascinate Detective Boyd Fletcher—the vulnerability beneath her tough-asnails facade. Late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke is being threatened by a sinister caller, and it's Boyd's job to protect her no matter what. 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But Grayson works strictly by the book, and she has no use for Colt's easygoing, renegade style. The case itself is demanding enough, but thawing the heart of his standoffish partner just might be the toughest challenge Colt has ever faced. Night Smoke Sophisticated executive Natalie Fletcher is accustomed to being in control, but if she wants to save her business, she needs the help of arson investigator Ryan Piasecki—a man with a reputation for being abrasive and aggressive. Ry's arrogance proves infuriating, yet oddly irresistible. But as sparks fly between Ry and Natalie, danger is hot on their trail.… To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice APRIL – JUNE 2016 RELEASES BRILLIANCE AUDIO PAGE 102 06/28/2016 FICTION / Romance MP3-CD $14.99 9781511394178 Unabridged CD $22.99 9781511394161 Undone Night Shield, Night Moves Nora Roberts Read by Kate Rudd & Andi Arndt #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you two reader-favorite stories that show us how love can shine a light through the darkness. Night Shield Jonah Blackhawk knows trouble when he sees it, and Ally Fletcher definitely falls into that category. The lanky blonde isn't just a cop, she's also the police commissioner's daughter, which makes her doubly off-limits. The day that she finishes her case and gets out of his life forever can't come soon enough for Jonah. But in the meantime, the memory of their passionate embrace threatens to consume him.… Night Moves Maggie Fitzgerald has retreated from her former fast-paced life, seeking solitude to heal her broken heart. But her new landscaper, Cliff Delaney, is gruff and abrupt—and somehow irresistible. And when a body is found too close to home, shattering her peace entirely, Maggie is forced into the arms of the very man she finds so aggravating. The trouble is, Cliff is the prime suspect in the investigation. Has Maggie fallen for a good man with a rough exterior…or a coldhearted killer? To order, contact your Thomas Allen sales rep or: Toll-free phone (800) 387-4333 Toll-free fax (800) 458-5504 Email orders@t-allen.com * Prices are subject to change without notice PAGE 103 INDEX 10 Laws of Trust, The 42 Cody and the Mysteries of the Universe 9 39-Storey Treehouse, The 69 Cold Dream Dawning 28 52-Storey Treehouse, The 4 Collector, The 89 Accidental Life Of Greg Millar, The 18 Curse 43 Aging Backwards 27 Dance of the Gods 83 Algorithms to Live By 14 Dancer's Lament 48 All In 64 Darker Sky, A 62 All-Star Antes Up, The 47 Dash 84 Along Came Mr. Right 31 Dead Man's Rule 65 Always Watching 69 Deadly Medicine 52 Another Little Piece of My Heart 82 Defender 65 Apartment, The 28 Deliver Her 26 Apple Orchard, The 87 Destiny Unleashed 48 Assassin's Game 69 Dirtiest Secret 15 Bad Action 32 Disappearance of Ember Crow, The 33 Bay of Sighs 57 Dog Beach Unleashed 84 Beach House, The 98 Doing It Over 15 Beekeeper's Ball, The 88 Dominated 29 Best of My Love 19 Don't Say a Word 29 Beyond the Sales Process 3 Dreamland 73 Big Fear, The 1 Drowning Girls, The 20 Big Fish Experience, The 42 Edenland 43 Black Dove, White Raven 83 Edge of the Shadows, The 79 Blockchain Revolution 32 End of All Things, The 90 Blood Defense 25 Enemy 51 Blood of the Cosmos 70 Everyone Pays 20 Blossom Sisters, The 75 Exclusive 90 Blue Between Sky and Water, The 97 Exposed 101 Body Reader, The 61 Exposure Boundary Born 61 Face Value 58 Breath of Malice 58 Fall of Light 16 Broken Angels 19 Fearless Heart, A 73 Brush Back 95 Filthy Truth, The 90 Burying the Honeysuckle Girls 20 Finding Libbie 65 Butterfly Garden, The 51 First Confessor, The 98 By Helen's Hand 33 First Offense 34 Chains of Command 15 Fix It 49 Charmingly Yours 43 Fixer, The 84 Chow Down 89 Flyover Nation 62 Four-Night Run, The 44 Fractured State 38 City's Son, The Cody and the Fountain of Happiness 4 72 5 PAGE 104 Friend is Not a Verb 100 Lethal Guardian 92 From a High Tower Frozen 95 Leviathan 77 16 Liberty's Last Stand 57 Ghost in My Brain, The 91 Life is Funny 92 Ghost of Africa, The 21 Lifted by the Great Nothing 70 Girl and the Rat, The 38 Light of Fireflies, The 1 Glass Kitchen, The 99 Long High Noon, The 93 Glass Republic, The 29 Lord of Ireland, The 6 Golden Age 26 Lost Dog 59 Golden Boys 9 Love in Exile 60 Good Traitor, The 5 Love on Lavender Island 53 Grunt 53 Loved Ones, The 97 Haunted Destiny 44 Lying Out Loud 77 Heart of a Lion 10 Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet 67 Highlander's Vow, The 10 Man, Interrupted His Darling Bride 21 Manhattan Mayhem 96 Hollow Queen, The 79 Mark of Cain 35 Home Game 34 Matchmaker's Playbook, The House for Happy Mothers, A 52 Me, Myself, and Us 71 House of Hawthorne, The 79 Mercer Girls 35 Hover 80 Miller's Valley 7 How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You How to Control Your Anxiety 22 Misbehaving 80 Momentum 39 In Dublin's Fair City 91 Most Important Thing, The 23 In the Clearing 39 In the Light of What We See 66 1 Infinity Reborn 66 Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, The 76 Island House, The 49 It Had to Be Fate 11 It's In His Smile 58 Jilo 22 Joy of Less, The 23 Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans! 11 Kasari Nexus, The 5 Keeper 85 Kindred 11 Last Remnant, The 35 Last Woman Standing, The 66 Leaving Blythe River 59 Leaving Independence 63 Legend of Caleb York, The 76 Murder, She Wrote: Design for Murder 2 6 7 My One and Only 40 Nettle King 17 New Charity Blues 12 Night Is Deep, The 67 Notorious Pagan Jones, The 93 O Great One! 36 Obsession, The 12 Oh Danny Boy 74 One Nation Under God 81 One With You 7 Orchids and Stone 2 Our Lady of the Streets 54 Paradox of Choice, The 71 Perilous Judgment 40 Piece of Infinity 23 Precious Gifts 99 Queen's Poisoner, The Ransomed Jewels 3 30 PAGE 105 Raven Sisters 17 Tangled Lies 47 Red Knight Falling 24 Targeted 55 Reliquary 60 Tea Planter's Bride, The 64 Restaurant Critic's Wife, The 36 Tea Planter's Daughter, The 64 Rise of the Robots 81 TED Talks 31 Rite of Wrongs 45 Thriller 78 Savage Urges 30 To Protect and To Serve 55 Saving Abby 49 Tracker 72 Saving Sara 50 Traitor's Story, The 61 Scaling Lean 60 Treasured 25 Seconds to Live 68 Turn Me Loose 41 Secret Healer, The 27 Two for the Show 50 Secretly Hers 63 Ty Cobb 88 Secrets We Keep, The 78 Undercover 78 Sensation 74 Undone 94 Seveneves 86 Undone 102 Shadow Play 87 Unnoticeables, The 98 Shark and the Albatross, The 37 Untamed 94 Shark, The 45 Untethered 56 Shining Sea 45 Vango: Between Sky and Earth 73 Simple Rules 75 Victoria Crossing 41 Sister of Mine 46 Vow, The 13 Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin, The 31 Wages of Rebellion 85 Snow Queen, The 96 Weight of the Heart 56 Someone Must Die 68 When Shadows Come 13 Something More Than This 24 When the Pressure's On 37 Spellstorm 82 Where We Fall 18 Spy's Son, The 85 While You Were Mine Stealing Jason Wilde 40 Who Gets What—And Why 96 Wicked Love 50 Stolen 101 3 Stormy Cove 46 Wild Man's Curse Success and Luck 17 Winning the Brain Game 47 Suddenly in Love 8 Winning Well 14 Summer Days 94 With Malice 56 Sunset City 13 Worst Night Ever, The 25 Sweet Resolve 54 You Sent Me a Letter 52 Taken Home 8 9