* Borski, Robert : Blood Wallah and other poems
(Dark Regions Press 978-1-937128-12-8, $9.95, 92pp, chapbook, November 2011, cover illustration Marge Simon)

Collection of 43 poems, of which 15 appear for the first time in this volume.
• The publisher’s site has this description and order form (not available from Amazon.com).

(Mon 7 Nov 2011)
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* DeLillo, Don : The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
(Scribner 978-1-4516-5584-1, $24, 224pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Nov 2011

Collection of nine stories, written from 1979 to 2011.
• Stories include “Human Moments in World War III”, about two pilots trapped in orbit, and “Creation”, about a couple stranded on a West Indies island.
• The publisher’s site has this description, with a Browse Inside function and an audio excerpt.
• Amazon names it a Best Book of November 2011, with a review by Mia Lipman: “DeLillo’s short fiction is a series of pointillist landscapes; entire worlds spring from the section of the canvas he chooses to frame for us. Lean in and pay attention–every glimpse counts.”
• Amazon also has a guest review by Sam Lipsyte: “The richness of his work, the pleasures on offer–intellectual, visceral, poetic, comic–-are unrivaled.”
• NPR just interviewed the author, with this excerpt of “Human Moments in World War III”.

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* Gilman, Laura Anne : Tricks of the Trade
(Luna 978-0-373-80331-6, $14.95, 352pp, trade paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Nov 2011
• Paranormal Scene Investigations #3

Paranormal fantasy novel, third in the “Paranormal Scene Investigations” series following Hard Magic (2010) and Pack of Lies (2011), about a paranormal investigations team in New York.
• Amazon has both a text excerpt and a “Look Inside” preview.

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* Kenny, John, ed. : Box of Delights
(Ireland: Aeon Press 978-0-9534784-8-4, £10.5, 224pp, trade paperback, October 2011)

Anthology of 16 original “spine-chilling tales of love and death”.
• Authors include Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Don D’Ammassa.
• The publisher’s site has this page for the book with a call to submissions, but so far no order page or table of contents.

(Mon 31 Oct 2011)
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* McEntire, K. D. : Lightbringer
(Pyr 978-1-61614-539-2, $16.95, 300pp, trade paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Nov 2011

Young adult urban fantasy/romance about a young woman who helps deliver the souls of those who died young into the light. It’s the author’s first novel.
• Pyr’s website has this description, which suggests that this book is Pyr’s first venture into YA fiction.
• The author’s site has the same description, and a blog.

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* Meikle, William : The Creeping Kelp
(Dark Regions Press 978-1-937128-15-9, $16.95, 155pp, trade paperback, May 2011, cover art Wayne Miller)

Horror novel about a sample of kelp brought from Antarctica that proliferates when let loose in the North Atlantic.
• The publisher’s site has this description and order page.

(Mon 7 Nov 2011)
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* Mitsuse, Ryu : Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights
(Haikasoru 978-1-4215-3904-1, $25.99, 360pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Nov 2011

SF novel in which Plato, Christ, and Siddhartha Gautama travel into the future to witness the death and rebirth of the world.
• Billed as “The greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time”, it was first published in 1967 and revised in 1973.
• Haikasoru’s website has this description with an excerpt.

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* Shields, Charles J. : And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
(Henry Holt 978-0-8050-8693-5, $30, 528pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Nov 2011

Authorized biography of Kurt Vonnegut, author of SF classics Slaughterhouse-Five, Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, and Galapagos, among other works.
• Parent publisher Macmillan’s site has this description with quotes from reviews and an excerpt.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function also provides a preview.
• The starred Publishers Weekly review calls it an “engrossing, definitive biography”.

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* Sumner, Gregory D. : Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels
(Seven Stories Press 978-1-60980-349-0, $24.95, 368pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Nov 2011

Nonfiction guide and analysis of 15 Vonnegut works, including the 14 novels beginning with Player Piano (1952), though his last book A Man Without a Country (2005).
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Sumner does well to contextualize contemporary events both in the world and the writer’s personal life during each novel’s conception, ultimately connecting many dots in the Vonnegut oeuvre.”

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* Taylor, Laini : Daughter of Smoke and Bone
(Little, Brown 978-0-316-13402-6, $18.99, 418pp, hardcover, September 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Sep 2011

Young adult fantasy novel, first of a trilogy, about a 17-year-old art student in Prague whose encounter with an angel reveals the mysteries of her family.
• The author’s site has this description with numerous quotes from reviews and video trailers.
• Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: “Exquisitely written and beautifully paced, the tale is set in ghostly, romantic Prague…”
• Amazon has over 150 reader reviews, of which more than 120 rate it 5 stars. Amazon.com ranked it #6 on its Top 100 Books of 2011.
• Gwenda Bond’s review for Locus Magazine‘s November issue said: “The reason Daughter of Smoke and Bone is such a special novel is that Taylor – as in her earlier work – has great faith in the reader to hang in there, knowing she’ll take us somewhere we don’t expect. Here, she does so more successfully than ever before…”

(Sat 12 Nov 2011)
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* Thomas, Jeffrey : Blood Society
(Necro Publications 978-1889186894, $19.95, 243pp, trade paperback, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2011

Supernatural horror novel following the career of a Chicago mafioso from the 1920s to Boston in the 1990s.
• Necro Publications’ site has this description

(Fri 4 Nov 2011)
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* Yolen, Jane : Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All
(Penguin/Philomel 978-0-399-25663-9, $16.99, 256pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 10 Nov 2011

Young adult fantasy novel, based on the author’s 2000 short story, adapting the tale of Snow White to West Virginia in the 1940s.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review said “this story is beautifully written and deliciously scary”.

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* Yovanoff, Brenna : The Space Between
(Razorbill 978-1-59514-339-6, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 14 Nov 2011

Young adult fantasy novel, the author’s second novel after The Replacement (2010), about Daphne, the daughter of a demon and a fallen angel.
• The author’s site has a description.
• Amazon gave it a starred review: “This confident tale contains moments of beauty, terror, and significant wisdom.”

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