History buffs have a nice selection of new releases to choose from this week. 

Charlaine Harris has just released the last entry in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead Ever After, and according to various blogs that I've read many Sookie fans are quite upset!   However, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly (linked below) when asked whether she was happy with the ending, she said "It’s the ending I had planned all along, maybe from like the second book on. There will be people who are super happy and there will be people who will not be happy, but you have to stay true to your own vision."  

Last week’s new arrivals included a new fantasy/horror mash up novel by Joe Hill titled Nos4A2 and a new western, Butch Cassidy, by William Johnston.

Amanda Quick, one of my favorite historical romance authors, has just released The Mystery Woman, the second in the "Ladies of Lantern Street" series. Quick’s books are a lively mix of romance and suspense with a dash of the paranormal tossed in to add that little something extra.

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners have just been announced.  Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, about life under totalitarian rule in North Korea, won the fiction prize.  Fredrik Logevall took the history prize for Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, about the French Indochina War that preceded and paved the way for America's Vietnam tragedy.  Tom Reiss's The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, winner of the biography prize, presents the life of Alexandre Dumas's father, whose real-life exploits and adventures served as the basis for Dumas's celebrated novel The Count of Monte Cristo.  Sharon Olds, a well-known American poet who has been publishing since the early 1980s, won the poetry prize for her collection Stag's Leap.  The nonfiction prize went to Gilbert King's Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, about a landmark early case in the civil-rights career of the future Supreme Court justice.  Check out all these titles, as well as the other finalists in each category, from the Richland Library.

The ever prolific Nora Roberts has just released her latest novel Whiskey Beach, which promises to be another bestseller.  Her books are always a wonderful blend of romance and suspense.