Whether curled up on the couch on a rainy day or sprawled in the park soaking up the sun, there is no better way to enjoy spring than with a new book. And Pegasus has a selection of new titles out this month that you’ll find both thrilling and edifying.
In 1954, four-year-old Marina Chapman was abducted in a remote mountain village in South America and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. Terrified and starving, she came across a troop of capuchin monkeys and, acting entirely on instinct, she tried to mimic their behaviors to survive. She ate what they ate and copied their actions and, little by little, learned to fend for herself. She spent five years with the monkeys before being discovered and reintroduced to society — where her harrowing adventure was only beginning. She’s written the remarkable memoir The Girl With No Name about her experiences, and her story was featured on The Today Show and on the recent Animal Planet documentary " Woman Raised By Monkeys."
With nearly twenty states approaching potential legislative marijuana reform (including Alabama, Alaska, California, Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington D.C., New York, Florida and of course the recent reform in Colorado), there’s never been a more important time to talk about pot. In Marijuana Nation, Roger Roffman rises above punditry and rhetoric in the midst of a “war on drugs” and instead rationally approaches the layered and complex relationship Americans have with marijuana in this definitive work that Publishers Weekly called “nuanced…[a] raucous history of cannabis since the 1960s.”
According to Library Journal, "Mystery aficionados will love this pastiche of Wilkie Collins and Edgar Allan Poe," and we agree: Baudelaire’s Revenge, by Bob Van Laerhoven takes readers on an unforgettable journey to Paris. In the midst of the Franco-Prussian War, as the population is driven nearly to madness from a combination of fear, hunger and despair, a serial killer is haunting the streets. On each of the victims, the killer leaves a calling card: lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal. The note is always written in the poet's exact handwriting, leading investigators to wonder: Did Baudelaire rise from the grave? Did he truly die in the first place? As the action careens from the brothels and catacombs of the frenzied city to the upper echelons of aristocratic society, the city of Paris comes alive in this intelligent and literary tale of evil, deceit, and revenge. The book, by Flemish novelist Bob Van Laerhoven, has already won the Hercule Poirot Prize for Best Crime Novel of the Year in Belgium.
In No Way Back, the new thriller from critics’ favorite Matthew Klein, Jimmy Thane becomes the CEO of a failing company and has seven weeks to turn it around — along with his mess of a life. But is this just the last in a series of bad decisions? Jimmy begins to understand this job is not what he thought it was, and he doesn’t quite understand the sinister game in which he has become a pawn. Kirkus gave it a starred review and included it in their "Books for Dudes" roundup, calling it "thoroughly enjoyable and compelling from start to finish."
Game of Thrones fans will love to read about one of the most dramatic periods of British history and the war the inspired the George R. R. Martin’s bestselling series. Follow Desmond Seward through the War of the Roses, the Lancaster victory and the Tudor Legacy in The Last White Rose: The Secret Wars of the Tudors. Robert Hutchinson, the author of The Last Days of Henry VIII, called Seward’s brilliant new interpretation "gripping and enthralling. No writer of fiction, however imaginative, could dream up more spellbinding plots than what actually happened, so skillfully recounted here.”
