Interesting books coming.

[bjornwilde]

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books)
This odd (in a good way) book combines a boy's tale of exploring his family history with some strange photos to create a cooly creepy reading experience. Jacob's grandfather used to tell him weird stories about kids with powers of levitation and invisibility. When the man passes away, Jacob sets out to visit the island where he was born, and promptly begins recognizing the children from the pictures. Problem is, everyone says they're all dead.

Uncertain Places, Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon Publications)
There's something a bit off about the women of the Feierabend family. They seem to have better-than-average good luck, but there's something not-quite-right about it, and their fortune doesn't seem to bring happiness, either. Will Taylor is caught up in their supernatural doings in 1971 when, as a fresh-faced Berkeley undergrad, he falls for Livvy Feierabend. But this is a fairy tale, and so she falls into a deep sleep, and falls to Will to figure out a way around her ancestors' deal with the fairy folk.

Graveminder, Melissa Marr (William Morrow)
Rebekkah Barrow left the town of Claysville as soon as she was able, returning only to visit her beloved grandmother Maylene. Her grandmother is a little odd, in that she's always the last mourner at any funeral, and she makes rounds of the town cemeteries to visit the deceased. Bek can't quite figure why nowhere else feels quite right, until Maylene is murdered and she returns home to find the dead are now her charges. Further complicating matters is her tumultuous relationship with undertaker Byron. Reluctant as they are to stir things up again, they're forced to work together to understand the strange, special connection between Claysville and the dead.

Raising Stony Mayhall, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
It's 1968, in the wake of the first zombie outbreak. The Mayhalls find a teenager dead in the snow, her baby beside her. Despite distinctly lacking a pulse, the child starts squirming and looks up at the family matriarch. They name him Stony and raise him as one of their own. But every child leaves home eventually, and the zombie boy eventually has to make his own way in a world that isn't very friendly and doesn't make much sense.

Someday I'll stop being lazy and figure out how to use my goodreads.com account.

ETA: And in the realm of damnit this must be published, Bender and Machine-man. This is like that 80 League of Extraordinary Gentleman mash-up/hommage.