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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the October 16th issue include:


The Christmas Cookie Club, by Ann Pearlman. Atria. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...annual holiday coffee klatch as expository jump-off for cozy midlife chick lit..." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Every year on the first Monday of December, Marnie and her twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dish, a bottle of wine, and their stories... Each woman, each friend has a story to tell, and they are all interwoven, just as their lives are... As you read about Marnie and her friends, their struggles and triumphs, what makes them laugh and what has made them cry, you'll see yourself and some of the ingredients of your own story." - Amazon.

Nine Dragons, by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown and Company. THRILLER. EW's slant: Reads like it was "...scribbled during a red-eye from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, the two cities where the slapdash action unfolds." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (30 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation - not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li's life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S. And instantly his world explodes. The one good thing in Bosch's life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he's lost..." - Amazon.

Dracula The Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker with Ian Holt. Dutton. NOVEL. EW's slant: "More than 100 years after Bram Stoker first published Dracula, the vampire is poised to emerge from his coffin." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $14.82. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...written by his direct descendant and a Dracula historian, Dracula The Un-Dead is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker’s own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition. [It] begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula crumbled into dust. Van Helsing’s protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of 'Dracula,' directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself. The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents’ terrible secrets, but before he can confront them he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined..." - us.penguingroup.com.
$9.99 or less alternative: The original Dracula, by Bram Stoker is free in the Amazon Bookstore.

Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Thick with paranoia, pot smoke and pop culture references..." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $15.37. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus's countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency..." - from the hardcover edition.
$9.99 or less alternative: Lethem's earlier novel The Fortress of Solitude.

Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, by Chesley B. Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow. HarperCollins. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "The first two-thirds are classic memoir, about family, education, and the Air Force; only the last 100 pages deal with the Hudson River landing..." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $14.29. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In this inspirational autobiography, Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so vital to his success. In January 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in history when Captain Sullenberger brought a crippled US Airways flight onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all of the passengers and crew aboard. The successful outcome was the result of effective teamwork, Sully's dedication to airline safety, his belief that a pilot's judgment must go hand-in-hand with - and can never be replaced by - technology, and forty years of careful practice and training. From his earliest memories of learning to fly as a teenager in a crop duster's single-engine plane in the skies above rural Texas to his years in the United States Air Force at the controls of a powerful F-4 Phantom, Sully describes the experiences that have helped make him a better leader, particularly the importance of taking responsibility for everyone in his care. And he talks about what he believes is at the heart of America's 'can do' spirit: the very human drive to prepare for the unexpected and to meet it with optimism and courage..." - www.harpercollins.com.
$9.99 or less alternative: Another inspiring memoir, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson.