New releases for week of Oct. 6
Check out your local library or bookstore for this week's new releases.

“A Touch of Dead: The Complete Stories” by Charlaine Harris: Fans of telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and the “Southern Vampire” series should be jumping with joy this week over the release of this collection of short stories. The stories include “Fairy Dust,” “One Word Answer,” “Dracula Night,” “Lucky” and “Giftwrap.”
Another series favorite also gets an addition with the release of Terry Pratchett’s “Unseen Academicals,” the 37th “Discworld” novel in which Publishers Weekly says “Football, food, fashion and wizards collide.”
Also expected out this week: “American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood” by Marc Eliot; “The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein” by Peter Ackroyd; “The Children’s Book” by Antonia S. Byatt; “Christmas List: A Novel” by Richard Paul Evans; “Evidence: An Alex Delaware Novel” by Jonathan Kellerman; “Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge” by Valerie Bertinelli; “The Gates” by John Connolly; “The Ghost King” by R.A. Salvatore; “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel” by Jeannette Walls; “How to Raise the Perfect Dog” by Cesar Millan; “I Am Not a Psychic!” by Richard Belze; "Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies” by Julie Andrews; “Kinky’s Celebrity Pet Files” by Kinky Friedman; “Leviathan” by Scott Westerfeld; “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son” by Michael Chabon; “New Moon: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion” by Mark Cotta Vaz; “The Professional” by Robert B. Parker; “Return to the Hundred Acre Wood” by David Benedictus; and “Three Feet from Gold: An Inspiring Story of Perseverance” by Sharon L. Lechter.
