New Releases by Jennifer Donnelly

Brooklyn - Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break. Paris - Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want - and couldn’t escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages - until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.

An idealistic young doctor in late Victorian London strikes up an unlikely relationship with an East End crime boss in this historical saga. "[Donnelly] is a master of pacing and plot, with enough high points scattered throughout to keep your pulse racing. . . . I became so consumed with finding out how it would end that I read the last third at near-choking speed." — Washington Post Book World When India Selwyn Jones graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, she is advised to set up her practice in a fashionable neighborhood. Instead, the idealistic India chooses to work in the East End, serving the poor. There, India meets Sid Malone, one of London''s most notorious gangsters. Before long, an unpredictable, passionate, and bittersweet affair ensues. "I loved this book. It is truly seductive, hard to put down, and filled with mystery, secret passions, unique locations, and a most engaging heroine. India Selwyn Jones . . .captivates from the first page to the last." —Barbara Taylor Bradford, #1 New York Times –bestselling author "Donnelly''s passion and energy will keep readers turning the many pages, rooting for India and the gruff underworld boss she loves." — Publishers Weekly

"London, 1900: Die junge India Selwyn-Jones bewegt sich in den feinsten Kreisen. Bis sie als Ärztin im berüchtigten Viertel Whitechapel zu arbeiten beginnt -- und dort in leidenschaftlicher Liebe zu dem gef̈rchteten Gangsterboß Sid Malone entbrennt ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Her family and dreams shattered by her father''s untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York.

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything, and big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can''t write down in stories.The fresh pain of her mother''s death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to marry her. And the secret dreams that keep her going--visions of finishing high school, going to college in New York City, becoming a writer.Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace''s drowned body is fished from Big Moose Lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser''s An American Tragedy, this Printz Honor-winning coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.

''Nobody got fed while I read A Gathering Light: If George Clooney had walked into the room I would have told him to come back later when I''d finished.'' Dinah Hall Sunday Telegraph