Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester

Rick Moody: The Diviners (Little, Brown): Novel about buzz and ambition. Mazzucco: Vita (Farrar, Straus and Giroux): Two immigrant girls struggle to survive in 1903 New York. Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch (ReganBooks): The son of Elphaba, the witch from Wicked, attempts to continue his mother’s work.

Tim LaHaye and Bob Phillips: The Europa Conspiracy (Bantam): Biblical archaeologist faces a familiar evil in the third book of the Babylon Rising series. Robert Hicks: Widow of the South (Warner): Soldier and Southern belle are brought together by the Civil War based on true story. A boy discovers a casino boat is polluting a local harbor in Hiaasen’s second book for middle-grade readers.

Martha Grimes: Belle Ruin (Viking): A 12-year-old cub reporter uncovers a mystery in the ruins of a posh resort.Ĭarl Hiaasen: Flush (Knopf). Myla Goldberg: Wickett’s Remedy (Doubleday): Ambitious former shopgirl and her would-be doctor husband market a mail-order medicine. Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys (Morrow): Fat Charlie’s life is turned upside down after the death of his father, the trickster god Anansi. Nicholas Evans: The Divide (Putnam): Young woman’s mysterious death prompts a deeper look at her life by the author of The Horse Whisperer. Louise Erdrich: The Painted Drum (HarperCollins): Appraiser searches for the history of a rare Native American drum found in a small town.ĭiana Evans: 26a (Morrow): Alcoholic father and unstable mother plunge London twins into a world of uncertainty.

Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester