October Book Club: Spooky Meets Sexy
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Illicit affairs, haunting family secrets, a beloved character's long-awaited return, an unexpected romance, love triangles - all these topics and more take center stage in the hot books of the month. October's new releases include historical fiction, romantic novels, a bondage how-to book, and a peek inside the world of the swinger lifestyle. Get ready to bookmark the most promising and enticing new reads of the month!
Winners: Danielle Steel's latest, Winners: A Novel, will tug at your heartstrings with the story of a young Olympic hopeful who has a tragic accident.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy: After a decade-long hiatus, Helen Fielding is back with her much-anticipated sequel to her two Bridget Jones books, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. In the funny yet poignant novel, a newly single Bridget must deal with "loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in - warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching! - middle age."
Mrs. Poe: Lynn Cullen's dark historical fiction Mrs. Poe follows the dangerous love triangle between Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress, and his wife.
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The Rosie Project: In The Rosie Project: A Novel, author Graeme Simsion tells the tale of a socially awkward genetics professor who has an orderly process of finding a wife but then falls for a woman who fits none of his carefully selected criteria.
Swingland: Daniel Stern shares his own personal experiences as well as those of others in the swinger community in Swingland: Between the Sheets of the Secretive, Sometimes Messy, but Always Adventurous Swinging Lifestyle.
Dark Witch: Nora Roberts returns with Dark Witch, the first book of her new The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy. Set in Ireland, the story follows a young woman as she is reunited with long-lost family, falls in love with a cowboy, and discovers an evil secret.
Hyperbole and a Half: Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened is a funny graphic novel of her life that includes "pictures, words, stories about things that happened to me, stories about things that happened to other people because of me, eight billion dollars*, stories about dogs, and the secret to eternal happiness*. (*These are lies.)
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Longbourn: Jo Baker imagines what Pride and Prejudice would have been like if told from the perspective of the servants in the historical novel Longbourn, which is sure to be a hit with Downton Abbey fans!
The Book of Jezebel: The Book of Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things is a collaboration between the writers and creatives of Jezebel.com. It touts itself as a "must-read for the modern woman," covering everything from Abzug, Bella, and Baby-Sitters Club, The, to Xena, yogurt, and zits.
The Posh Girl's Guide to Play: The Posh Girl's Guide to Play: Fantasy, Role Play, & Sensual Bondage by Alexis Lass is an introduction to the world of dominance and submission "because little black handcuffs go with everything."
