New books from the holidays!

Between Christmas gifts and a giftcard to Barnes & Nobles, I scored some pretty nice new reading material. 

Before I go to sleep by S.J. Watson - A novel about a woman who loses her memory every night and is retold her memories every morning by her husband.  When she finds a note written to herself saying not to trust her husband, she begins to questions everything, including how much of a person's identity is defined by their memories.

The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey - A nature book about humans and their relationship with great white sharks.  I've read most shark books out there, but this one is new to me.

The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn - A young adult ghost story book about two children living in the woods behind a mansion. 

Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn - I've never read anything by this author, but she always come up when I search in amazon.com for Tasha Alexander.  I finally read the descriptions of some of the books, and really liked this one.  Lady Julia Grey makes her appearance in this debut novel about a mystery set among the upper crusts in Victorian England.

Tears of Pearl and Dangerous to Know by Tasha Alexander - Books 4 and 5 in the Lady Emily Ashton series.  Love this author and this series.

Her fearful symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger - Another ghostie type story involving two twin sisters in Chicago and England. Same author as Time Traveler's Wife.

The year of the flood and Oryx and crake by Margaret Atwood - I really like Atwood.  I've only read one of hers (The Handmaid's Tale), although I'm amassing quite a collection of her books. Oryx and Crake is futuristic like Handmaid's Tale, dealing with isolation and memories of a world like today.  The year of the flood is also futuristic, book two in a trilogy about how Earth is altered from a waterless flood which destroys most of humankind.  Left are two friends, one working in a sex shop and the other in a spa, both of whom try to escape their bosses/controllers and find a better life.

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs - My favorite of the books I've received about a boy exploring a home for peculiar children off the coast of Wales.  The more he explores the more he finds out details of just how weird these children might have been.  Complete with photographs.

Someone named Eva by Joan M. Wolf - Another young adult book about Nazi Germany.