Author: Natalia Heroux

Sponsored by Simon & Schuster

What do Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Grace Kelly, and Rita Hayworth have in common? All of them were former residents of the Barbizon Hotel. Intended as a safe haven for the “Modern Woman” seeking a career in the arts, it became the place to stay for any ambitious young woman hoping for fame and fortune. This is the first history of New York’s most famous residential hotel, and the remarkable women who lived there.

Sponsored by Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson (House of Anansi)

After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned.

November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future.

Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s award-winning and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander.

Sponsored by Saga Press, publisher of THE RUSSIAN CAGE

Charlaine Harris, the New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, is back with an all-new alternate history thriller, The Russian Cage. This new book in her Gunnie Rose series gives readers everything they adore from Charlaine Harris—romance, thrills, supernatural—and takes Lizbeth Rose, her “sharp-as-nails, can-do heroine,” on a new adventure from the American west to the Holy Russian Empire.

Sponsored by Mad Cave Studios, publisher of Becstar by Joe Corallo

Becstar is a star hopping mercenary-gone-full time-gambler light years away from earth. Leaving her old life behind, Becstar ekes out a living under the nefarious Shadow Syndicate’s radar with the help of her magical lucky dagger and friend Sally Soolin.

But when a mysterious girl appears with grim news and an urgent quest where the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, Becstar has no choice but to join… and regret it immediately.

Sponsored by Mulholland Books

Isaiah Quintabe—a young, unlicensed detective from East Long Beach—and his masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson find themselves at a crossroads in this latest installment of the IQ mystery series. Author Joe Ide is a crime writer’s crime writer, and he’s filled his best novel yet with desperate souls, courageous outcasts, and truly evil villains. With deft plotting, lacerating humor, and a keen eye for the ways in which characters rise or fall based on their ties to one another, Smoke is Joe Ide’s crowning achievement.

Sponsored by Wavesound

The modeling and advertising industries consistently tell women they’re not good enough if they don’t conform to a western ideal of beauty. In 2002 Chelsea Bonner founded BELLA, a modelling agency dedicated to changing our dangerously narrow perception of ‘beautiful’. Part memoir and part positive body image manifesto, this is an insider’s perspective on the industry and how the images the world gets to see are only part of the story.