New Books For Women Out December 2013

Isabel Greenberg's debut graphic novel, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, is a series of imagined fables about our lost history, including the story of two lovers — one from the North Pole and the other from the South — who can't touch each other due to polar magnetization.

Out Dec. 3

Comic-book artist Yumi Sakugawa explores that special bond between platonic friends who would prefer to swap favorite books over saliva in her sweet book I Think I Am in Friend-Love With You.

Out Dec. 6

Satirist Mark Haskell Smith takes on the worlds of celebrity, modern publishing, and reality TV in Raw: A Love Story. It follows the "sexiest man alive" as he goes on a book tour for his ghost-written debut novel and ends up on a "sex-fueled road trip" with the woman trying to take him down.

Out Dec. 3

Barbara Mutch's debut novel The Housemaid's Daughter is the heartbreaking tale of an Irish woman who marries a man she doesn't love in Apartheid-era South Africa. In her isolation she befriends and loves as her own the housemaid's daughter but must make a life-changing decision when the girl disappears.

Out Dec. 10

Dean Koontz's mystical thriller Innocence tells a tragic love story of adversity bringing two exiled people together.

Out Dec. 10

Hunted is a romantic suspense novel by Karen Robards that follows a hostage negotiator who must decide which side she's on when a former flame (who's also a detective) holds her estranged father hostage.

Out Dec. 10

Dyan Sheldon's diary-style YA novel One or Two Things I Learned About Love takes a funny and sharp look at a less-than-perfect Summer romance.

Out Dec. 10

You'll want to read Greg Baxter's captivating novel The Apartment with a warm blanket and steamy drink. It takes place over the course of one snowy day in an Eastern European city as an American war vet is shown apartments by a local woman.

Out Dec. 3

Eric Smith's The Geek's Guide to Dating sets out to aid geeky guys everywhere with humorous instructions on finding the Princess Peach to their Mario.

Out Dec. 3

In Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains: Masculinity in Disney's Feature Films, author Amy M. Davis takes a closer look at the portrayal of men in Disney films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Tangled using masculinity studies and feminist film theory.

Out Dec. 10