Notable Oklahoma book releases

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Published: November 1, 2009
Modified: October 31, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Week of Nov. 2

Synopses are from the publishers.

→"Merry, Merry Ghost” (Bailey Ruth Raeburn Series, No. 2) by Carolyn Hart (HarperCollins, $15.99).

Oklahoma City author Hart returns with another ghostly tale. When a wealthy woman in Adelaide, OK, decides to change her will and leave the bulk of her fortune to a young grandson, a scrooge of a determined heir makes sure she never signs the document. When she is found dead, it’s up to that irrepressible spirit Bailey Ruth, on assignment from Wiggins and Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions, to protect a little boy, foil a murderer and save Christmas.

→ "Ford County” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday, $24).

Grisham returns to Ford County, Miss., the setting of his popular first novel, "A Time to Kill.” This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.

→ "Kindred in Death” (In Death Series, No. 29) by J.D. Robb (Penguin Group, $26.95).

When the police captain and his wife return a day early from vacation, they find their 16-year-old daughter brutally murdered. Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest the perpetrator; little do they know that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them.

→ "Ad Hoc at Home: Family-Style Recipes” by Thomas Keller (Artisan, $50).

Keller shares family-style recipes that you can make any or every day.

→ "Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer (Little, Brown & Co., $25.99).

Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and detective work, "Eating Animals” explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits.

Other releases

→ "Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” by Dan Senor and Saul Singer (Twelve, $26.99).

→ "The Lacuna” by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.99).

→ "Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful” by Bon Jovi (Collins Design, $30).

→ "No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II” by Jeff Shaara (Random House, $28).

→ "It’s Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams and Increase in God’s Favor” by Joel Osteen (Simon & Schuster, $25).

→ "A Quilter’s Holiday: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel” by Jennifer Chiaverini (Simon & Schuster, $19.99).

→ "Rainwater” by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $23.99).

→ "When the Game Was Ours” by Larry Bird, Earvin "Magic” Johnson Jr. and Jackie MacMullan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)

→ "A Christmas Blizzard” by Garrison Keillor (Penguin Group, $21.95).

→ → "Rachael Ray’s Book of Ten: More Than 300 Recipes to Cook Every Day” by Rachael Ray (Crown, $20).

COMPILED BY RENEE LAWRENCE

Signings

Full Circle Bookstore, 50 Penn Place.

→Diane Glancy will read from and sign copies of her new novel, "Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears,” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Paper Lion, 3218 S Boulevard in Edmond.

→Judy Howard and local quilt artists will sign "Heavenly Patchwork I and II,” "Centennial Stitches — Oklahoma History in Quilts” and "Thanking Our Troops — God Bless America Touring Quilts” from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Red Dirt Book Festival at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center, Shawnee.

Borders Bookstore, 2740 E 21, Tulsa.

→P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, mother-daughter authors of the best-selling "House of Night” series, will sign copies of their new book, "Tempted,” at 2 p.m. Saturday.