Altar of Eden: A Novel
by
James Rollins
William Morrow, 01/01/2010
Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of ...
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Thrillers
Corpus Delicti: An Eisenmenger and Flemming Forensic Mystery
by
Keith McCarthy
Severn House, 01/01/2010
Continuing the Eisenmenger and Robinson forensic mystery series - Eisenmengers relationship with Helena Flemming has deteriorated to the point that ...
more
Dying Gasp: A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation
by
Leighton Gage
Soho Press, 01/01/2010
The granddaughter of a prominent politician is missing. Silva and his team find her in Manaus, a jungle hellhole on the Amazon where an evil female ...
more
Eye of the Raven: A Mystery of Colonial America
by
Eliot Pattison
Counterpoint Press, 01/01/2010
With the aid of the Indian Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life ...
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Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
Just Kids
by
Patti Smith
Ecco, 01/01/2010
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of ...
more
Red Station: A Harry Tate Novel
by
Adrian Magson
Severn House, 01/01/2010
Having been made the scapegoat for a botched drugs intercept operation, MI5 officer Harry Tate is dispatched to 'Red Station', a remote outpost in the...
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Small Wars
by
Sadie Jones
Harper, 01/01/2010
Sadie Jones, the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of
The Outcast, returns with an ambitious, richly imagined novel that confirms ...
more
The Bad Book Affair: A Mobile Library Mystery
by
Ian Sansom
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/01/2010
Paperback Original. Israel Armstrong—the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst ...
more
The Burning Land: A Novel
by
Bernard Cornwell
Harper, 01/01/2010
In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
by
Francis S. Collins
Harper, 01/01/2010
A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us, based on study after study, from hundreds of laboratories around the world. It is no longer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Professor and Other Writings
by
Terry Castle
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/01/2010
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a ...
more
The Red Door: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 01/01/2010
In a house with a red door lies the body of a woman who has been bludgeoned to death. Rumor has it that two years earlier, she'd painted that door to ...
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The Summer We Fell Apart
by
Robin Antalek
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/01/2010
Paperback Original. The children of a once-brilliant playwright and a struggling actress, the four Haas siblings grew up in chaos—raised in an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wench: A Novel
by
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Amistad, 01/01/2010
wench \'wench\
n. from Middle English "
wenchel," 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child.
Tawawa House in many respects is like any other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
An Irish Country Girl: A Novel
by
Patrick Taylor
Forge Books, 01/05/2010
Some forty-odd years before and many miles to the south, the girl who would
someday be Kinky Kincaid was Maureen O’Hanlon, a farmer’s ...
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Literary Fiction
Captivate
by
Carrie Jones
Bloomsbury USA, 01/05/2010
Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
by
Elizabeth Gilbert
Viking, 01/05/2010
At the end of her bestselling memoir
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who&#...
more
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
by
Paul Ingrassia
Random House, 01/05/2010
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, denial, missed opportunities, and self-...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years
by
Ilan Stavans
Palgrave Macmillan, 01/05/2010
100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate,...more
Impact
by
Douglas Preston
Forge Books, 01/05/2010
Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this ...
more
Iron River: A Charlie Hood Novel
by
T. Jefferson Parker
Dutton, 01/05/2010
T. Jefferson Parker ranks among the very top tier of contemporary crime writers, and his new series has received some of the most effusive reviews of ...
more
Noah's Compass
by
Anne Tyler
Knopf, 01/05/2010
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at ...
more
Not My Daughter
by
Barbara Delinsky
Doubleday, 01/05/2010
When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything ...
more
Paganini's Ghost: A Mystery
by
Paul Adam
Minotaur Books, 01/05/2010
Paganini – showman, womanizer, dazzling virtuoso – is one of the most
charismatic characters in the history of classical music. His ...
more
Ransom: A Novel
by
David Malouf
Pantheon Books, 01/05/2010
A novel of suffering, sorrow, and redemption,
Ransom tells the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Some Girls Are
by
Courtney Summers
St. Martin's Press, 01/05/2010
Paperback Original. Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the
...more
Sweet, Hereafter
by
Angela Johnson
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/05/2010
Coretta Scott King Award-winner Angela Johnson concludes her Heaven trilogy with a poignant tale of discovering where—and with whom—you ...
more
The Girl with Glass Feet: A Novel
by
Ali Shaw
Henry Holt and Company, 01/05/2010
Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lock Artist: A Novel
by
Steve Hamilton
Minotaur Books, 01/05/2010
At the age of eight, Michael survives an act of violence so horrific that the local press dubs him "The Miracle Boy." An orphan now, and no longer ...
more
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by
Michelle Alexander
New Press, 01/05/2010
Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Privileges: A Novel
by
Jonathan Dee
Random House, 01/05/2010
Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress ...
more
The Secret of Everything
by
Barbara O'Neal
Bantam Books, 01/05/2010
Barbara O'Neal, author of
The Lost Recipe for Happiness, delivers a generous helping of the best in life–family, food, and love–in the story...
more
Thereby Hangs a Tail: A Chet and Bernie Mystery
by
Spencer Quinn
Atria Books, 01/05/2010
"We run a detective agency, me and Bernie, called the Little Detective Agency on account of Little being Bernie's last name. My name's Chet, pure and ...more
Mysteries
Unfinished Desires: A Novel
by
Gail Godwin
Random House, 01/05/2010
It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel's, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed ...
more
Wishing for Tomorrow: The Sequel to A Little Princess
by
Hilary McKay
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 01/05/2010
Nothing is quite the same at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies since Sara Crewe went away with the Indian gentleman.
Lavinia is once ...
more
A Fair Maiden
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/06/2010
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's ...
more
Roses
by
Leila Meacham
Grand Central Publishing, 01/06/2010
Spanning the 20th century, the story of
Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries...
more
Freedom (TM)
by
Daniel Suarez
Dutton, 01/07/2010
In one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
by
Sean Carroll
Dutton, 01/07/2010
Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fun with Problems
by
Robert Stone
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/11/2010
In
Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (
Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new...
more
Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
by
Randi Hutter Epstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/11/2010
From a witty, relentlessly inquisitive medical writer, an eye-opening history of pregnancy and birthing joys and debacles. Making and having babies - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Day out of Days: Stories
by
Sam Shepard
Knopf, 01/12/2010
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the ...
more
Invisible: A Memoir
by
Hugues de Montalembert
Atria Books, 01/12/2010
A spare, poetic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be ...
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Biography/Memoir
Monsieur Pain
by
Roberto Bolaño
New Directions Publishing, 01/12/2010
Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife ...
more
Mysteries
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel
by
Beth Hoffman
Viking, 01/12/2010
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille - the tiara-toting, lipstick-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Blue Orchard: A Novel
by
Jackson Taylor
Touchstone, 01/12/2010
On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The First Rule: A Joe Pike Novel
by
Robert Crais
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/12/2010
The Watchman put Joe Pike, Elvis Cole's strong, taciturn partner, front and center, and not only won Robert Crais new audiences but remarkable reviews...
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Treasure Hunt
by
John Lescroart
Dutton, 01/12/2010
Mickey Dade hates deskwork, but that's all he's been doing at Wyatt Hunt's private investigative service, The Hunt Club. His itch to be active is ...
more
Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction
by
Amy Bloom
Random House, 01/12/2010
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the
New York Times bestselling author of
Away. Bloom's ...
more
Woods Runner
by
Gary Paulsen
Wendy Lamb Books, 01/12/2010
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Doors Open
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 01/15/2010
Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie - retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast - ...
more
Death by the Book: A Jack Susko Mystery #1
by
Lenny Bartulin
Minotaur Books, 01/19/2010
After crabby businessman Hammond Kasprowicz hires secondhand bookstore owner Jack Susko to find as many copies of an obscure poet's works as possible,...
more
Mysteries
Debut Author
Gone 'til November
by
Wallace Stroby
Minotaur Books, 01/19/2010
It's late at night when Florida sheriff's deputy Sara Cross arrives at the scene of a roadside shooting along a deserted highway. Another deputy, ...
more
Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History
by
Diana Wells
Algonquin Books, 01/19/2010
Diana Wells, author of
100 Flowers and
How They Got Their Names now turns her attention to something bigger—our deep-rooted relationship with ...
more
Other
Paper Fortunes: Modern Wall Street; Where It's Been and Where It's Going
by
Roy C. Smith
St. Martin's Press, 01/19/2010
Paper Fortunes is the richly-detailed story of Wall Street from post-war heyday to present woes, from a player whose experiences, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Silencer (Thorn Series #11)
by
James W. Hall
Minotaur Books, 01/19/2010
Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it ...
more
The Endless Forest: A Novel
by
Sara Donati
Delacorte Press, 01/19/2010
With a master storyteller's skill and a historian's precision, Sara Donati has delighted readers and critics alike with her bestselling novels of the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
by
Charles Pellegrino
Henry Holt and Company, 01/19/2010
March 1 2010: This book has been withdrawn from sale by the publisher due to substantial inaccuracies, more about this...
Drawing on the voices...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Patience Stone
by
Atiq Rahimi
Other Press, 01/19/2010
In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is ...
more
Wish Her Safe at Home: (New York Review Books Classics)
by
Stephen Benatar
NYRB Classics, 01/19/2010
Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity,...
more
Literary Fiction
Her Highness' First Murder: A Simon and Elizabeth Mystery
by
Peg Herring
Five Star, 01/20/2010
Elizabeth Tudor is as appalled as everyone else when headless corpses litter the streets of London, but when one of her own ladies is murdered, she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
by
Garry Wills
Penguin Press, 01/21/2010
In
Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots - by dramatically increasing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Book of Fires: A Novel
by
Jane Borodale
Viking, 01/21/2010
It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. Lost and frightened, she finds herself at the home ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Brightest Star in the Sky: A Novel
by
Marian Keyes
Viking, 01/21/2010
Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and stories that deal with real-life issues have captivated readers around ...
more
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
by
Ira Berlin
Viking, 01/21/2010
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Child: and Other Stories
by
T.C. Boyle
Viking, 01/21/2010
In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was...
more
Short Stories
Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution
by
Philip Pomper
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/25/2010
In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Being With Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate Our World
by
Barbara J. King
Harmony Books, 01/26/2010
What do Mickey Mouse, Ganesh, a leopard-skin pillbox hat,
A Lion Called Christian, and the Aflac duck have in common? They all represent human ...
more
Gator A-Go-Go
by
Tim Dorsey
William Morrow, 01/26/2010
It was only a matter of time until Serge and Coleman did the inevitable--spring break. Meanwhile, a Miami crime gang still bears a grudge against a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Incarceron
by
Catherine Fisher
The Dial Press, 01/26/2010
Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years
by
Michael Shelden
Random House, 01/26/2010
One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author...
more
Swell
by
Ioanna Karystiani
Europa Editions, 01/26/2010
The moment of reckoning has come for Captain Mitsos Avgustìs. After twelve years at sea it is time to go home to the Island on which he was born:...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
After Ever After
by
Jordan Sonnenblick
Scholastic, 02/01/2010
Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The after-effects of treatment have left...
more
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
by
Peter Hessler
Harper, 02/01/2010
From the bestselling author of
Oracle Bones and
River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Devotion: A Memoir
by
Dani Shapiro
Harper, 02/01/2010
In her mid-forties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was ...
more
Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
by
Robin Hobb
Eos, 02/01/2010
Enter the spellbinding world of dragons ... and those who tend them
One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today,
New York Times bestselling ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories
by
Justin Taylor
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/01/2010
Paperback Original. Each story in this crystalline, spare, oddly moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by delusions and ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Hot Springs
by
Geoffrey Becker
Tin House Books, 02/01/2010
Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her ...
more
Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
by
Ann Mah
Avon Books, 02/01/2010
Paperback Original. Isabelle Lee thinks she knows everything about Chinese cuisine. After all, during her Chinese-American childhood, she ate it ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Numbers
by
Rachel Ward
The Chicken House, 02/01/2010
Ever since she was child, Jem has kept a secret: Whenever she meets someone new, no matter who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel
by
William Boyd
Harper, 02/01/2010
A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of
Restless, a national bestseller and winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award.
It is May in ...
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Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
by
James Mcgrath Morris
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/01/2010
Pulitzer is James McGrath Morris’s definitive biography of the Jewish Hungarian immigrant who created the modern American mass media—the ...
more
Serpent Pool: A Lake District Mystery
by
Martin Edwards
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/01/2010
DCI Hannah Scarlett is determined to uncover the truth behind Emily Friend’s mysterious drowning in the Serpent Pool. But Hannah’s ...
more
Shadow Tag: A Novel
by
Louise Erdrich
Harper, 02/01/2010
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could. When Irene America discovers ...
more
The Bell Ringers: A Novel
by
Henry Porter
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/01/2010
In Henry Porter’s new novel,
The Bell Ringers, England in the near future appears largely unchanged. There are concerns over the threat of ...
more
The Fifth Servant
by
Kenneth Wishnia
William Morrow, 02/01/2010
Whoever saves a single life saves
the entire world ....
In 1592, as the Catholic Church and the Protestants battle for control of the
soul of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fourth Assassin: An Omar Yussef Mystery
by
Matt Beynon Rees
Soho Press, 02/01/2010
Arriving to visit his son in a heavily Palestinian area of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Omar Yussef discovers the beheaded body of one of the boy's roommates....
more
The Hungry Season
by
T. Greenwood
Kensington, 02/01/2010
It's been five years since the Mason family's holiday at the lakeside cottage in north Eastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel ...
more
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
by
Philip Hoare
Ecco, 02/01/2010
The Whale by Philip Hoare is a enthralling and eye-opening literary leviathan swimming in similar bestselling waters as
Cod and
The Secret Life of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Wall in Palestine
by
Rene Backmann
Picador, 02/02/2010
Paperback Original. The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning
by
Joel M. Hoffman
Thomas Nelson, 02/02/2010
An authoritative account of significant mistranslations in the Bible—and how new methods give readers their first glimpse into what the Bible ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Blackout
by
Connie Willis
Bantam Spectra, 02/02/2010
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Born Under a Million Shadows: A Novel
by
Andrea Busfield
Henry Holt and Company, 02/02/2010
Paperback Original. The Taliban have withdrawn from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their regime remain. In his short life, eleven-year-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Conspirata: A Novel
by
Robert Harris
Simon & Schuster, 02/02/2010
On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear through a city already wracked by civil ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland
by
Basharat Peer
Scribner, 02/02/2010
Curfewed Night is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dirty Little Secrets
by
C. J. Omololu
Walker & Company, 02/02/2010
Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s is bigger and dirtier than most. It’s one she’s been hiding for years—that her mom’s out-of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Forest Gate: A Novel
by
Peter Akinti
Free Press, 02/02/2010
In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top of twin tower ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In a Heartbeat
by
Loretta Ellsworth
Walker & Company, 02/02/2010
When a small mistake costs sixteen-year-old Eagan her life during a figure-skating competition, she leaves many things unreconciled, including her ...
more
Literary Fiction
Mornings in Jenin: A Novel
by
Susan Abulhawa
Bloomsbury USA, 02/02/2010
Paperback Original. In the refugee camp of Jenin, Amal is born into a world of loss—loss of home, country, and heritage. Her Palestinian family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Occupied City
by
David Peace
Knopf, 02/02/2010
A fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post–World War II Occupied Japan in a
Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on...
more
Pride and Avarice: A Novel
by
Nicholas Coleridge
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/02/2010
Gazing from his magnificent Chawbury Manor, Miles Straker has it all. But when noveau riche Ross Clegg buys and builds on the land adjoining his ...
more
Savage Lands
by
Clare Clark
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/02/2010
It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from the splendor of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honor, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Secrets of Eden: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Shaye Areheart Books, 02/02/2010
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism,
and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that ...
more
The Information Officer: A Novel
by
Mark Mills
Random House, 02/02/2010
Summer 1942: Malta, a small windswept island in the Mediterranean, has become the most bombed patch of earth on the planet, worse even than London ...
more
The Kitchen House: A Novel
by
Kathleen Grissom
Touchstone, 02/02/2010
Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel
by
Zachary Mason
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/02/2010
Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel,
The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Things We Didn't See Coming
by
Steven Amsterdam
Pantheon Books, 02/02/2010
Richly imagined, dark, and darkly comic, the stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Wake Up Dead: A Thriller
by
Roger Smith
Henry Holt and Company, 02/02/2010
A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.
On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy ...
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Dear Strangers: A Novel
by
Meg Mullins
Viking, 02/04/2010
In the high desert of the American southwest during the summer of 1982, the Finley family is awaiting the arrival of the baby boy they're due to adopt...
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The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
by
Joel Kotkin
Penguin Press, 02/04/2010
In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
by
David Aaronovitch
Riverhead Books, 02/04/2010
Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere- from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Yalta: The Price of Peace
by
S. M. Plokhy
Viking, 02/04/2010
Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
by
Gina Ochsner
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/08/2010
In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there's a ghost who won't keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Dark Matter
by
Peter Straub
Doubleday, 02/09/2010
The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. ...
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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
by
Jim Frederick
Harmony Books, 02/09/2010
This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coming of the Storm: Book One of Contact: The Battle for America
by
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Pocket Books, 02/09/2010
Black Shell, an exiled Chickasaw trader, is fascinated by the pale, bearded newcomers who call themselves "Kristianos," and not even the wise counsel ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
by
Eve Ensler
Villard, 02/09/2010
In this daring, provocative, and insightful book, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues ...
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Short Stories
Look Again
by
Lisa Scottoline
St. Martin's Press, 02/09/2010
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look ...
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Something Is Out There: Stories
by
Richard Bausch
Knopf, 02/09/2010
Eleven indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying artistry of a master.
A husband confronts the power of youth and the inexorable truths of ...
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The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith
by
Stephanie Saldana
Doubleday, 02/09/2010
A gorgeous, romantic memoir of a young woman's year in Damascus, where she studied the Muslim Jesus, fled to an ancient desert monastery to heal her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Midnight House
by
Alex Berenson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/09/2010
Early one morning, a former CIA agent is shot to death in the street. That night, an army vet is gunned down in his doorway. The next day, John Wells ...
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To Come and Go Like Magic
by
Katie Pickard Fawcett
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 02/09/2010
Twelve-year-old Chili Sue Mahoney has never been outside of her small Appalachian town. Momma says Mercy Hill, Kentucky, is her “true home,”...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Deep Creek
by
Dana Hand
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/10/2010
Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back
by
Kevin Salwen
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/10/2010
It all started when 14-year old Hannah Salwen, idealistic but troubled by a growing sense of injustice in the world, had a eureka moment when a ...
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The Wife's Tale: A Novel
by
Lori Lansens
Little Brown & Company, 02/10/2010
On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy - still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school...
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The Yellow House: A Novel
by
Patricia Falvey
Center Street, 02/15/2010
The Yellow House delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20
th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Night Too Dark: A Kate Shugak Novel
by
Dana Stabenow
Minotaur Books, 02/16/2010
When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, ...
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As It Was Written: A Novel
by
Sujatha Hampton
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/16/2010
In McLean, Virginia, Dr. Raman Nair lives a life of abounding satisfaction with his tiny wife, Jaya, and his harem of enormous and beautiful daughters...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Corked: A Memoir
by
Kathryn Borel
Grand Central Publishing, 02/16/2010
Meet Kathryn Borel, bon vivant and undutiful daughter. Now meet her father, Philippe, former chef, eccentric genius, and wine aficionado ...
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Last Nocturne
by
Marjorie Eccles
Minotaur Books, 02/16/2010
What could make a successful, happily married man take a gun and shoot himself? What made a young artist on the brink of fame throw himself to his ...more
Last Snow
by
Eric Van Lustbader
Forge Books, 02/16/2010
Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, interprets the world very differently from the rest of us....
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Letter to My Daughter: A Novel
by
George Bishop
Ballantine Books, 02/16/2010
Dear Elizabeth,
It's early morning and I'm sitting here wondering where you are, hoping you’re all right.
A fight, ended by a slap, sends ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Gin Closet
by
Leslie Jamison
Free Press, 02/16/2010
In the beginning, there was Tilly: fabulous and free, outrageous and untamable, vulnerable and terrified. Was it the Sixties that did her wrong, or ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
by
Heidi W. Durrow
Algonquin Books, 02/16/2010
With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Man from Beijing
by
Henning Mankell
Knopf, 02/16/2010
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
...
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by
Elif Batuman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/16/2010
No one who read Elif Batuman’s first article (in the journal
n+1) will ever forget it. “Babel in California” told the true story of ...
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The Ruling Sea: (aka The Rats and the Ruling Sea)
by
Robert V. S. Redick
Del Rey, 02/16/2010
In his acclaimed first novel,
The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Robert V. S. Redick launched the gargantuan ship Chathrand and its motley crew of misfits, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
by
Jack Weatherford
Crown, 02/16/2010
Jack Weatherford tells the gripping story, lost ot history until now, of the female heirs of the Mongol Empire. He beings with the six daughters of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Orphans of Eldorado (Myths)
by
Milton Hatoum
Canongate Books, 02/18/2010
Theirs is a relationship full of passion and limitless ambition. Separating father and son is a remarkable cast of characters, from Angelina, the dead...
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Literary Fiction
The Crimson Rooms
by
Katharine McMahon
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/18/2010
Still haunted by the death of her only brother, James, in the Great War, Evelyn Gifford is completely unprepared when a young nurse and her six-year-...
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The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
by
Elif Shafak
Viking, 02/18/2010
In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel,
The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel...
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The Carbon Diaries 2017
by
Saci Lloyd
Holiday House, 02/22/2010
In this riveting sequel to the hit eco-thriller
The Carbon Diaries 2015, Laura Brown, now a college student in London, chronicles the struggle England...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban
by
Daniele Mastrogiacomo
Europa Editions, 02/23/2010
On March 5, 2007, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver and his interpreter were captured by the Taliban. His captors threatened to execute him if Italy ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Northward to the Moon
by
Polly Horvath
Random House Children's Publishing, 02/23/2010
Jane and her family have moved to Canada ... but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems ...
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Literary Fiction
Split Image: A Jesse Stone Novel
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/23/2010
The body in the trunk was just the beginning.
Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable ...
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Thrillers
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
by
Henry Petroski
Knopf, 02/23/2010
From the acclaimed author of
The Pencil and
To Engineer Is Human,
The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Infinities
by
John Banville
Knopf, 02/23/2010
On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: ...
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The Man From Saigon: A Novel
by
Marti Leimbach
Nan A. Talese, 02/23/2010
It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an ...
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The Sable Quean (Redwall)
by
Brian Jacques
Philomel, 02/23/2010
He appears out of thin air and vanishes just as quickly. He is Zwilt the Shade, and he is evil. Yet he is no match for his ruler, Vilaya the Sable ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
by
G.J. Meyer
Delacorte Press, 02/23/2010
For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Wild Zone: A Novel
by
Joy Fielding
Atria Books, 02/23/2010
This is how it starts. With a joke.
Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the ...
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Thrillers
The Wives of Henry Oades
by
Johanna Moran
Ballantine Books, 02/23/2010
When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. But while Henry ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
by
Ted Morgan
Random House, 02/23/2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina&...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Historical Fiction
Vienna Secrets: A Max Liebermann Mystery
by
Frank Tallis
Random House, 02/23/2010
In Freud's dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape ...
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Black Hills: A Novel
by
Dan Simmons
Little Brown & Company, 02/24/2010
When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn,...
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Historical Fiction
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Book One of the The Inheritance Trilogy
by
N.K. Jemisin
Orbit, 02/25/2010
Paperback Original. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
by
Henry Cole
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/01/2010
A beautifully illustrated novel about a mouse, her friendship with Audubon's apprentice, and her search for home.
Beneath the crackled and faded ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Before I Fall
by
Lauren Oliver
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2010
What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?
Samantha Kingston has ...
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Borderline
by
Allan Stratton
HarperTeen, 03/01/2010
The truth is closing in.
Life's not easy for Sami Sabiri since his dad stuck him at a private school where he's the only Muslim kid. But it's about...
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Deadly Inheritance: A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone Mystery
by
Simon Beaufort
Severn House, 03/01/2010
When Sir Geoffrey’s unpopular brother, Henry, is murdered, he unwillingly inherits Goodrich Castle in the Welsh Marches. Immediately, his sister ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Happyface
by
Stephen Emond
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/01/2010
Just put on a happy face!
Enter Happyface's journal and get a peek into the life of a shy, artistic boy who decides to reinvent himself as a happy-...
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Literary Fiction
In a Dark Wood: A Novel
by
Marcel Moring
Harper, 03/01/2010
1945. Jacob Noah emerges from hiding to discover that his family has perished under the Nazis. Rebuilding his life, Noah becomes a shoemaker in the ...
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Lonely: A Memoir
by
Emily White
Harper, 03/01/2010
This boldly honest and elegantly written memoir reveals the painful and sometimes debilitating experience of living with chronic loneliness—the ...
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Mean Free Path
by
Ben Lerner
Copper Canyon Press, 03/01/2010
Paperback Original. National Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. "Mean free path" is the average ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America
by
multiple editors
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/01/2010
Following on the success of the
Flash Fiction and
Sudden Fiction series, Robert Shapard and James Thomas join with Ray Gonzalez in selecting works ...
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Short Stories
The Art of Choosing
by
Sheena Iyengar
Twelve Books, 03/01/2010
Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?
Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives....
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
by
Henry Schlesinger
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2010
What began as a long-running dispute in biology, involving a dead frog's twitching leg, a scalpel, and a metal plate, would become an invention that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Devil's Star: A Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Harper, 03/01/2010
Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a...
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The Journal Keeper: A Memoir
by
Phyllis Theroux
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/01/2010
A natural storyteller, Theroux slips her arm companionably into yours, like an old friend going for a stroll. But Theroux's stride is long, her eye ...
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Literary Fiction
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by
Seth Grahame-Smith
Grand Central Publishing, 03/02/2010
Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems
by
Charles Bernstein
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/02/2010
A new retrospective of one of America's most innovative poets.
All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernstein’s best work from ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
by
David Kirby
St. Martin's Press, 03/02/2010
Eric Schlosser's classic
Fast Food Nation revealed how our meat is bred, raised, and brought to market. Now, in
Animal Factory, bestselling journalist...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
by
Brian Fagan
Bloomsbury USA, 03/02/2010
The name “Cro-Magnon” inspires images of a snowbound world, mammoth hunting, and eerily alluring cave paintings. Who were these ancient ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Do They Know I'm Running?
by
David Corbett
Ballantine Books, 03/02/2010
From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.
Roque Montalvo is ...
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Don't Kill The Messenger
by
Eileen Rendahl
Berkley Books, 03/02/2010
Paperback Original. The first in a fantastic new paranormal series about a messenger from the supernatural underworld.
Melina Markowitz is a ...
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Romance
Debut Author
Drink the Tea: A Mystery
by
Thomas Kaufman
Minotaur Books, 03/02/2010
Willis Gidney is a born liar and rip-off artist, an expert at the scam. Growing up without parents or a home, by age twelve he is a successful young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
False Mermaid: A Novel
by
Erin Hart
St. Martin's Press, 03/02/2010
A chilling new suspense novel from Erin Hart that brilliantly combines forensics, archaeology, and history with Irish myth and mystery.
House Rules: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Atria Books, 03/02/2010
They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working ...more
Literary Fiction
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
by
Nujood Ali
Three Rivers, 03/02/2010
Paperback Original.
"I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church
by
Gina Welch
Metropolitan Books, 03/02/2010
Ever since evangelical Christians rose to national prominence, mainstream America has tracked their every move with a nervous eye. But in spite of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Long for This World: A Novel
by
Sonya Chung
Scribner, 03/02/2010
In 1953, on a remote island in South Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and sister-in-law to the mainland. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long Time Coming
by
Robert Goddard
Bantam Books, 03/02/2010
Paperback Original. Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly ...
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Thrillers
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
by
Anousheh Ansari & Homer Hickam
Palgrave Macmillan, 03/02/2010
In her heartwarming and empowering memoir, space pioneer Anousheh Ansari tells the story of her childhood in Iran and her family's exodus to America ...
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Biography/Memoir
One Good Dog: A Novel
by
Susan Wilson
St. Martin's Press, 03/02/2010
Adam March is a self-made "Master of the Universe." He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But ...
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Our Lady of Immaculate Deception
by
Nancy Martin
Minotaur Books, 03/02/2010
Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.
Roxy Abruzzo, bestseller Nancy Martin’s latest creation, is a loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-...
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Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
by
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/02/2010
Henri Cole has been described as a “fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet” by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Silk Parachute
by
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/02/2010
The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in
The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee’s most ...
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Spellwright
by
Blake Charlton
Tor Books, 03/02/2010
Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text ... but he has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
by
Jason Vuic
Hill and Wang, 03/02/2010
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's
Car...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq
by
Kelly Kennedy
St. Martin's Press, 03/02/2010
Based on "Blood Brothers", the Michael Kelly Award nominated series that ran in
Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel
by
Howard Frank Mosher
Shaye Areheart Books, 03/02/2010
A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller,
Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
At the Water's Edge: A Personal Quest for Wildness
by
John Lister-Kaye
Canongate Books, 03/03/2010
For the last 30 years nature writer John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small lake. ...
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Travel & Adventure
What We Are
by
Peter Nathaniel Malae
Grove Press, 03/03/2010
What We Are follows twenty-eight-year-old Samoan-American Paul Tusifale as he strives to find his place in a culture that barely acknowledges his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Thousand Cuts
by
Simon Lelic
Viking, 03/04/2010
It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Drizzle
by
Kathleen Van Cleve
The Dial Press, 03/04/2010
Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody knows her family’s world-famous rhubarb farm is magical. The plants taste like chocolate, jewels appear in the soil...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Noir: A Novel
by
Robert Coover
Overlook, 03/04/2010
With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America's pioneering postmodernists, has turned the classic detective story inside-out. Here Coover is at...
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The Heights
by
Peter Hedges
Dutton, 03/04/2010
Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, ...
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Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture
by
Naomi Cahn & June Carbone
Oxford University Press, 03/08/2010
Red Families v. Blue Families identifies a new family model geared for the post-industrial economy. Rooted in the urban middle class, the coasts and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
by
Melissa Milgrom
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/08/2010
It's easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachronistic throwback to the dusty ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Week in December
by
Sebastian Faulks
Doubleday, 03/09/2010
London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the ...
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Angelology: A Novel
by
Danielle Trussoni
Viking, 03/09/2010
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Arcadia Falls
by
Carol Goodman
Ballantine Books, 03/09/2010
There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost ...
Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded ...
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Bone Fire: A novel
by
Mark Spragg
Knopf, 03/09/2010
Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet...
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Deep Shadow
by
Randy Wayne White
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/09/2010
Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human.
Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote ...
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Thrillers
Hell Gate: A Novel
by
Linda Fairstein
Dutton, 03/09/2010
Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America's most visible legal expert on ...
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Lost: A Novel
by
Alice Lichtenstein
Scribner, 03/09/2010
On a cold January morning, Susan, a professor of biology, leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. Suffering from ...
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Never Look Away
by
Linwood Barclay
Delacorte Press, 03/09/2010
In this tense, mesmerizing thriller by Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of
Fear the Worst and
Too Close to Home, a man’s life ...
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Thrillers
Next: A Novel
by
James Hynes
Reagan Arthur, 03/09/2010
One Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity.
Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-...
more
Secret Daughter: A Novel
by
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
William Morrow, 03/09/2010
On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Star in the Forest
by
Laura Resau
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 03/09/2010
Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to ...
more
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
by
David Grann
Doubleday, 03/09/2010
Acclaimed
New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller
The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative ...
more
Essays
The Last Child
by
John Hart
Minotaur Books, 03/09/2010
John Hart's
New York Times bestselling debut,
The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With
Down River, he surpassed his ...
more
The Storm: A Novel
by
Margriet De Moor
Knopf, 03/09/2010
On the night of January 31 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, ...
more
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
by
Annie Leonard
Free Press, 03/09/2010
Annie Leonard tracks the life of the "stuff" we use every day, transforming how we think about our patterns of consumption.
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hole We're In
by
Gabrielle Zevin
Black Cat, 03/10/2010
Paperback Original. From award-winning writer Gabrielle Zevin comes a biting, powerful, and deliciously entertaining novel about an American family ...
more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by
Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/15/2010
A brilliant account - character-rich and darkly humorous - of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.
Truth really is stranger than fiction...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Capitol Betrayal: A Novel
by
William Bernhardt
Ballantine Books, 03/16/2010
William Bernhardt’s bestselling novels explore politics, power, ambition, crime, and the law. Now he scales new heights of suspense as, in one ...
more
Dimiter
by
William Peter Blatty
Forge Books, 03/16/2010
A riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion. A novel in ...
more
Thrillers
Down to the Wire
by
David Rosenfelt
Minotaur Books, 03/16/2010
A reporter for the Bergen News, Chris Turley could never measure up to his father. Edward Turley, a combination of Bob Woodward and Ernie Pyle,&#...
more
Fancy Beasts
by
Alex Lemon
Milkweed Editions, 03/16/2010
Paperback Original. In
Fancy Beasts, the author of
Hallelujah Blackout and
Mosquito takes on California, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance
by
Robert Klara
Palgrave Macmillan, 03/16/2010
In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hazard
by
Gardiner Harris
Minotaur Books, 03/16/2010
When a block of coal the size of a stove shoots out of the wall, miner Amos Blevins barely has time to react before the entire area is flooded with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
In the Company of Angels: (aka Greene's Summer)
by
Thomas E. Kennedy
Bloomsbury USA, 03/16/2010
Born in 1944 in New York City, Thomas E . Kennedy spent his youth hitchhiking and writing his way around the United States before moving to Europe, ...
more
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems
by
James Schuyler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/16/2010
of an evening real as paint on canvas.
The kind that makes me ache to have the gift
for dusting off clichés:
not, make it new, but, see it,...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
by
Alexander Neubauer (editor)
Knopf, 03/16/2010
"In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall," begins Alexander Neubauer's introduction to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Stuck on Earth
by
David Klass
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/16/2010
Ketchvar III's mission is simple: travel to Planet Earth, inhabit the body of an average teenager, and determine if the human race should be ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
by
Margarita Engle
Henry Holt and Company, 03/16/2010
Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Informer: A Novel
by
Craig Nova
Shaye Areheart Books, 03/16/2010
Berlin in 1930 is a city of dark paranoia and covert power struggles, where violence can erupt at any moment. The Brownshirts dominate the streets, ...
more
The Last Rendezvous
by
Anne Plantagenet
Other Press, 03/16/2010
Paperback Original
"Women are not supposed to write; yet I write." – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Year of Goodbyes: A true story of friendship, family and farewells
by
Debbie Levy
Hyperion Books for Children, 03/16/2010
This book tells the true story of what happened to a 12-year-old girl named Jutta (Debbie Levy's mother) in 1938. Actual entries in a posiealbum (...
more
Biography/Memoir
Think Twice
by
Lisa Scottoline
St. Martin's Press, 03/16/2010
Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least...
more
Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman
by
Chloe Schama
Walker & Company, 03/16/2010
On a steamer passage from France to England in 1852, nineteen-year-old Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
by
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Viking, 03/18/2010
Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read - a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dog Boy: A Novel
by
Eva Hornung
Viking, 03/18/2010
Two million children roam the streets in late twentieth-century Moscow. A four-year-old boy named Romochka, abandoned by his mother and uncle, is left...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by
Philip Kerr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2010
Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S....
more
Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine
by
Scott Korb
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2010
For anyone who's ever pondered what everyday life was like during the time of Jesus comes a lively and illuminating portrait of the nearly unknown ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Still Midnight
by
Denise Mina
Reagan Arthur, 03/22/2010
Alex Morrow is not new to the police force - or to crime - but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a ...
more
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
by
Jeff Shesol
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/22/2010
Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority left much of FDR’s agenda in ruins. The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Darker God: A Laetitia Talbot Mystery
by
Barbara Cleverly
Bantam Spectra, 03/23/2010
Paperback Original. Award-winning author Barbara Cleverly returns with this spellbinding new mystery featuring aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot....
more
Caught
by
Harlan Coben
Dutton, 03/23/2010
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year ...
more
Thrillers
Fragile Beasts
by
Tawni O'Dell
Shaye Areheart Books, 03/23/2010
When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their ...
more
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by
Miranda Carter
Knopf, 03/23/2010
In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gone Tomorrow: A Jack Reacher Novel #13
by
Lee Child
Dell, 03/23/2010
New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn’t. ...
more
Good To a Fault: A Novel
by
Marina Endicott
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/23/2010
Shortlisted for Canada's prestigious Giller Prize, this "profoundly humane novel" (
Vancouver Sun), wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Insectopedia
by
Hugh Raffles
Pantheon Books, 03/23/2010
A stunningly original exploration of the beautiful, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery #2
by
Walter Mosley
Riverhead Books, 03/23/2010
Leonid McGill - the protagonist introduced in
The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide - is still fighting ...
more
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
by
Lee Smith
Algonquin Books, 03/23/2010
A celebrated novelist, Lee Smith is likewise recognized as a master of the short story and has been compared with such luminaries as Katherine Ann ...
more
Ostrich Boys
by
Keith Gray
Random House Children's Publishing, 03/23/2010
Ross is dead, and Blake, Sim, and Kenny are furious. To make it right, they steal Ross’s ashes and set out from their home on the English coast ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Creation of Eve
by
Lynn Cullen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/23/2010
It's 1559. A young woman painter is given the honor of traveling to Michelangelo's Roman workshop to learn from the Maestro himself. Only men are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Secrets
by
Dianne Dixon
Doubleday, 03/23/2010
From a fresh and exciting new voice in women's fiction,
The Language of Secrets unflinchingly examines the lifelong repercussions of a father's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors
by
Stuart Lutz
Prometheus Books, 03/23/2010
When we read about famous historical events, we may wonder about the firsthand experiences of the people directly involved. What insights could be ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Sheen on the Silk: A Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 03/23/2010
New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry, the undisputed Queen of Victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during World War...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival
by
Dean King
Little Brown & Company, 03/24/2010
In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Love in Mid Air
by
Kim Wright
Grand Central Publishing, 03/29/2010
A chance encounter with a stranger in an airplane sends Elyse Bearden into an emotional tailspin. Suddenly, Elyse is willing to risk everything: her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
by
James Horn
Basic Books, 03/30/2010
In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Broken Glass Park
by
Alina Bronsky
Europa Editions, 03/30/2010
Broken Glass Park made a remarkable debut when it was published in Germany in 2008. Its author, the twenty-nine-year old Russian-born Alina Bronksy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Deception: An Alex Delaware Novel
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 03/30/2010
Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make #1
New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman's Alex ...
more
Thrillers
Fireworks Over Toccoa
by
Jeffrey Stepakoff
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/30/2010
Every so often a story comes along that reminds us of what it’s like to experience love for the first time—against the odds, when you least ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Hotel Iris: A Novel
by
Yoko Ogawa
Picador, 03/30/2010
Paperback Original. In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the ...
more
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories
by
Robin Black
Random House, 03/30/2010
Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Invisible Boy
by
Cornelia Read
Grand Central Publishing, 03/30/2010
The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her ...
more
Lighthead
by
Terrance Hayes
Penguin Books, 03/30/2010
From an award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways.
In his fourth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Mandela
by
Martin Meredith
Public Affairs, 03/30/2010
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all ...
more
North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters
by
Captain Sig Hansen
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/30/2010
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Second Time Around: A Novel
by
Beth Kendrick
Bantam Books, 03/30/2010
Every summer, four college friends hold a mini-reunion. They laugh, reminisce, and commiserate about their soul-sucking jobs. Maybe they should have ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Botticelli Secret
by
Marina Fiorato
St. Martin's Press, 03/30/2010
In this exhilarating cross between
The Da Vinci Code and
The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy&#...
more
Historical Fiction
The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes
by
Randi Davenport
Algonquin Books, 03/30/2010
Randi Davenport’s story is a testament to human fortitude, to hope, and to a mother's uncompromising love for her children.
She had always ...
more
The Divine Sacrifice: An Arthurian Mystery
by
Tony Hays
Forge Books, 03/30/2010
The Divine Sacrifice continues the story of King Arthur's conselor, Malgwyn ap Cuneglas, a soldier who lost his arm in battle but was saved ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Long Way Home
by
Robin Pilcher
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/30/2010
In the vein of Maeve Binchy, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Nicholas Sparks,
New York Times bestselling author Robin Pilcher returns with his most enchanting ...
more
The Lotus Eaters: A Novel
by
Tatjana Soli
St. Martin's Press, 03/30/2010
A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Tale of Halcyon Crane: A Novel
by
Wendy Webb
Henry Holt and Company, 03/30/2010
Paperback Original. When a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James's mailbox, her life is upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father, having been...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
by
Frances Stonor Saunders
Metropolitan Books, 03/30/2010
At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square. Less than a foot in front of her stood Benito ...
more
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
by
Haya Leah Molnar
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/30/2010
Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Pleasure to Burn
by
Ray Bradbury
Subterranean Press, 03/31/2010
Ray Bradbury's
Fahrenheit 451 is one of the undisputed classics of modern science fiction. Its title has become part of our common language. Its ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Conspiracy of Kings
by
Megan Whalen Turner
Greenwillow Books, 04/01/2010
Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father's villa come under attack....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Murderous Procession: A Mistress of the Art of Death Novel
by
Ariana Franklin
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2010
Adelia is back in this thrilling fourth installment of the Mistress of the Art of Death series.
In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A River in the Sky: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Peters
William Morrow, 04/01/2010
August 1910. Banned from the Valley of the Kings by the Antiquities Service, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, are relaxing at home in Kent, ...
more
A Thread of Sky: A Novel
by
Deanna Fei
Penguin Press, 04/01/2010
Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beautiful Assassin: A Novel
by
Michael C. White
William Morrow, 04/01/2010
World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. ...
more
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by
James S. Shapiro
Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2010
In a history writ large like the Bard himself, acclaimed author James Shapiro examines the biggest controversy in literature: Who wrote William ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fever Crumb
by
Philip Reeve
Scholastic, 04/01/2010
Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kapitoil: A Novel
by
Teddy Wayne
Harper Perennial, 04/01/2010
Paperback Original.
"Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse," writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East
by
Geoffrey Wawro
Penguin Books, 04/01/2010
An unprecedented history of our involvement in the Middle East that traces our current quandaries there - in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Random Violence: A Jade de Jong Investigation
by
Jassy Mackenzie
Soho Press, 04/01/2010
In Johannesburg, prosperous whites live behind gates; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Strange Images of Death: A Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery
by
Barbara Cleverly
Soho Press, 04/01/2010
Provence, 1926. Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, driving his way south to the Riviera while dropping off his niece at an ancient ...
more
Mysteries
The Barbary Pirates: An Ethan Gage Adventure
by
William Dietrich
Harper, 04/01/2010
Swashbuckling American explorer and ladies' man Ethan Gage has seen his fair share of danger, having braved the sands of Egypt, the perils of the ...
more
The Dreamer
by
Pam Munoz Ryan
Scholastic, 04/01/2010
From the time he is a young boy, Neftalí hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh,...
more
The Executor: A Novel
by
Jesse Kellerman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2010
Perpetual graduate student Joseph Geist is at his wit's end. Recently kicked out of their shared apartment by his girlfriend, he's left with little ...
more
The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegy
by
John Phillip Santos
Viking, 04/01/2010
In his acclaimed 1999 memoir
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Phillip Santos told the story of one Mexican family - his father's -...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lie
by
Petra Hammesfahr
Bitter Lemon Press, 04/01/2010
Paperback Original. Nadia and Susanne look uncannily alike, but one of the women is seriously rich and the other is destitute. When Nadia asks Susanne...
more
The Line
by
Olga Grushin
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2010
The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureaucracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers.
The ...
more
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
by
Kelly O'Connor McNees
Amy Einhorn Books, 04/01/2010
In the bestselling tradition of
Loving Frank and
March comes a novel for anyone who loves
Little Women
Millions of readers have fallen in love with...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Name of the Nearest River: Stories
by
Alex Taylor
Sarabande Books, 04/01/2010
Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. These ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Sandbox: A Novel
by
David Zimmerman
Soho Press, 04/01/2010
Operating Base Cornucopia: A three hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment; ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes
by
Marilyn Berger
William Morrow, 04/01/2010
"Whoever Saves a Life, It Is Considered as If He Saved an Entire World."
Dr. Rick Hodes arrived in Africa more than two decades ago to help the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
by
Laura Munson
Amy Einhorn Books, 04/01/2010
Laura Munson's essay in the
New York Times, about the time she was tested in a way she never anticipated, created a firestorm-now here's the whole ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This World We Live In: The Last Survivors, Book 3
by
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 04/01/2010
It's been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth's climate. For Miranda Evans life as she knew it no longer...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages
by
Vanitha Sankaran
Avon Books, 04/01/2010
Paperback Original. The daughter of a papermaker in a small French village in the year 1320 - mute from birth and forced to shun normal society - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion
by
Herman Wouk
Little Brown & Company, 04/05/2010
"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins
The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between...
more
Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working Motherhood
by
Amy Eschliman
Penguin Books, 04/06/2010
Most books for working mothers are earnest, serious guides with some usefull information, but lack the snark and praticality that today's overworked ...
more
Advice
Cat of the Century: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by
Rita Mae Brown
Bantam Books, 04/06/2010
Harry’s beloved and tart-tongued Aunt Tally is about to turn the big 1-0-0. The alumnae association of her alma mater sees an opportunity to ...
more
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet
by
Stephanie Cowell
Crown, 04/06/2010
In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Short Stories
Imperfect Birds: A Novel
by
Anne Lamott
Riverhead Books, 04/06/2010
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent - she aced AP physics; athletic - a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nowhere to Run: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C. J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/06/2010
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the ...
more
Powder Necklace: A Novel
by
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Washington Square Press, 04/06/2010
Paperback Original: To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
by
Martha Grimes
Viking, 04/06/2010
Three months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt-ridden after his lover's tragic auto accident, and he is now more wary than ever...
more
The Lake Shore Limited
by
Sue Miller
Knopf, 04/06/2010
Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008's heralded best seller
The Senator’...more
The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 04/06/2010
To each of the men and women in
The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long left ...
more
The Moonlit Earth
by
Christopher Rice
Scribner, 04/06/2010
“How long do I have to convince you that my brother is not capable of murdering sixty people?”
Christopher Rice, the author of four New ...
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The Origin of Species
by
Nino Ricci
Other Press, 04/06/2010
Paperback Original.
Winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Fiction
Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger ...
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The Reluctant Donor
by
Suzanne Ruff
Beaver's Pond Press, 04/06/2010
Eight family members, including her mother, have died from the disease. Now her sisters have PKD and each need kidney transplants.
The Reluctant Donor ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Swimming Pool
by
Holly LeCraw
Doubleday, 04/06/2010
A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.
Seven summers ago, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by
John Green & David Leviathan
Dutton Children's Books, 04/06/2010
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide ...
more
The Poison Throne: The Moorehawke Trilogy
by
Celine Kiernan
Orbit, 04/07/2010
Young Wynter Moorehawke returns to court with her dying father - but she finds her old home shadowed with fear. The king has become a violent despot,...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Joe Speedboat
by
Tommy Wieringa
Grove Press, 04/08/2010
A sparkling coming-of-age novel that has sold over 300,000 copies in Holland, in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the ...
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Muriel Spark: The Biography
by
Martin Stannard
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/12/2010
Born a working-class Scot, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic. Hers is a Cinderella story: teenage marriage in Africa, divorce, return ...
more
The Birthday Ball
by
Lois Lowry
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 04/12/2010
Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Song of the Whales
by
Uri Orlev
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 04/12/2010
Michael’s grandfather has a secret—a secret that's almost too strange to share...
When Michael moves to Israel, he leaves ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
American Taliban: A Novel
by
Pearl Abraham
Random House, 04/13/2010
An avid, near-six-foot-tall surfer, John Jude Parish cuts a striking figure on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. When he isn't on ...
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Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel
by
Yann Martel
Spiegel & Grau, 04/13/2010
Fate takes many forms. . . .
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is ...
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Chef: A Novel
by
Jaspreet Singh
Bloomsbury USA, 04/13/2010
Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu
by
Christopher Heaney
Palgrave Macmillan, 04/13/2010
In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by
Bill McKibben
Times Books, 04/13/2010
Twenty years ago, with
The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Efrain's Secret
by
Sofia Quintero
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/13/2010
Ambitious high school senior Efrain Rodriguez dreams of escaping the South Bronx for an Ivy League college like Harvard or Yale. But how is his family...
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Elegy for April: A Novel
by
Benjamin Black
Henry Holt and Company, 04/13/2010
Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-...
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Every Last One: A Novel
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 04/13/2010
In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1
New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a ...
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I Thought You Were Dead
by
Pete Nelson
Algonquin Books, 04/13/2010
For Paul Gustavson, a hack writer for the wildly popular For Morons series, life is a succession of obstacles. His wife has left him, his father has ...
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In Free Fall: A Novel
by
Juli Zeh
Nan A. Talese, 04/13/2010
A rising star who has garnered some of Europe's most important literary prizes, Juli Zeh has established herself as the new master of the ...
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
by
Nick Bunker
Knopf, 04/13/2010
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Revolver
by
Marcus Sedgwick
Roaring Brook Press, 04/13/2010
A loaded gun, stolen gold. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.
In an isolated cabin, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
by
Paul Davies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/13/2010
Are we alone in the universe? This is surely one of the biggest questions of human existence, yet it remains frustratingly unanswered. In this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Heretic's Wife
by
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
St. Martin's Press, 04/13/2010
Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Inheritance
by
Simon Tolkien
Minotaur Books, 04/13/2010
When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son, Stephen. About to be disinherited from the family ...
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The Killer
by
Tom Hinshelwood
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/13/2010
The hunter has become the hunted
Victor is a freelancer, a professional, a killer - the best there is. He's ice cold, methodical, and deadly. He ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Other Family: A Novel
by
Joanna Trollope
Touchstone, 04/13/2010
Paperback Original. When Richie Rossiter, once a famous pianist, dies unexpectedly, Chrissie knows that she must now tell the truth to their three ...
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The Innocents Abroad (Wordsworth Classics)
by
Mark Twain
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 04/14/2010
So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced
The Innocents Abroad, a book so...
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Literary Fiction
703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
by
Nancy Makin
Dutton, 04/15/2010
A moving, funny, tongue-in-cheek, and deadly serious story about how one woman lost and found herself by going online.
Nancy Makin weighed an ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Haunt Me Still
by
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Dutton, 04/15/2010
A legendary theatrical curse...
A rune-engraved blade, a mysterious mirror, and an ancient cauldron...
And a ritually murdered body laid out in the...
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How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
by
Jeff Goodell
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/15/2010
When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term "geoengineering," he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Mockingbird
by
Kathryn Erskine
Philomel, 04/15/2010
In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Wife's Affair
by
Nancy Woodruff
Amy Einhorn Books, 04/15/2010
Georgie and Peter, very much in love, move to London with their three children. Once there, Georgie's dormant acting career takes off and she wins the...
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All That Follows: A Novel
by
Jim Crace
Nan A. Talese, 04/20/2010
Set in Texas and the suburbs of England,
All That Follows is a novel in which tender, unheroic moments triumph over the more strident and aggressive ...
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Deliver Us from Evil
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 04/20/2010
Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything ... and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller ...
more
Thrillers
Eight Days to Live: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller
by
Iris Johansen
St. Martin's Press, 04/20/2010
Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that ...
more
Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
by
Heather Rogers
Scribner, 04/20/2010
A 20th century movement has lost its way in the 21st century. The environmental movement is the most densely organized movement in human history.
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Let the Dead Lie: A Novel
by
Malla Nunn
Washington Square Press, 04/20/2010
South Africa, 1953. The National Party's rigid race laws have split the nation and a grueling poverty grips many on the edges of its society. When ...
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Lucid Intervals: A Stone Barrington Novel
by
Stuart Woods
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/20/2010
It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine's. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, are enjoying some pasta when in walks former ...
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
by
Piper Kerman
Spiegel & Grau, 04/20/2010
A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison, by a Smith College graduate who did the crime ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel
by
Alexander Mccall Smith
Pantheon Books, 04/20/2010
The delightful new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north ...
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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
by
Alan Brinkley
Knopf, 04/20/2010
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
...
more
The Third Rail
by
Michael Harvey
Knopf, 04/20/2010
A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is gunned down as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Two ...
more
The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI
by
Guilliatt & Hohnen
Free Press, 04/20/2010
On November 30, 1916, an apparently ordinary freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land again for another fifteen months. It was...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alchemy and Meggy Swann
by
Karen Cushman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/26/2010
Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann, newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
by
Kai Bird
Scribner, 04/27/2010
Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and...
more
Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense
by
Sam Eastland
Bantam Books, 04/27/2010
This riveting suspense debut introduces both a stellar new voice and a remarkable detective, an outsider who must use his extraordinary talents to ...
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Free?: Stories About Human Rights
by
Amnesty International (editor)
Candlewick Press, 04/27/2010
What does it mean to be free? Top authors donate their talents to explore the question in a compelling collection to benefit Amnesty International.
...
more
Short Stories
Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
by
Jonathan Eig
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 04/27/2010
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters,
New...more
Half Life
by
Roopa Farooki
St. Martin's Press, 04/27/2010
On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt...
more
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
by
Hampton Sides
Doubleday, 04/27/2010
On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this ...
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In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
by
Wilbert Rideau
Knopf, 04/27/2010
From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself,...
more
My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm
by
Manny Howard
Scribner, 04/27/2010
For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to ...
more
One Man's Paradise
by
Douglas Corleone
Minotaur Books, 04/27/2010
Hotshot New York criminal defense lawyer Kevin Corvelli was rolling. He had all the right connections to get way ahead. Guilty? Innocent? It didn...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
by
Isobel Coleman
Random House, 04/27/2010
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Romancing Miss Bronte: A Novel
by
Juliet Gael
Ballantine Books, 04/27/2010
In this astonishing novel, a brilliant mélange of fact and fiction, Juliet Gael skillfully and stylishly captures the passions, hopes, dreams, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Ten Minutes from Home: A Memoir
by
Beth Greenfield
Harmony Books, 04/27/2010
Ten Minutes from Home is the poignant account of how a suburban New Jersey family struggles to come together after being shattered by tragedy.
In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Flight of the Intellectuals
by
Paul Berman
Melville House, 04/27/2010
It created a worldwide furor when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. After all, as a...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Bloomsbury USA, 04/27/2010
Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on...
more
Essays
The God of the Hive: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
by
Laurie R. King
Bantam Books, 04/27/2010
It began as a problem in one of Holmes' beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and ended—or so they'd hoped—with a daring escape from a ...
more
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
by
Evan Thomas
Little Brown & Company, 04/27/2010
On February 15
th, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. That the explosion was almost certainly a self-inflicted accident, mattered not to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wait: Poems
by
C. K. Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/27/2010
Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945
by
Max Hastings
Knopf, 04/27/2010
A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings,
Winston's War captures the full range of ...
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Zulu
by
Caryl Ferey
Europa Editions, 04/27/2010
As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress...
more
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
by
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Dutton, 04/29/2010
Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma
by
Emma Larkin
Penguin Books, 04/29/2010
On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and leaving an official toll of 138,300 dead and missing. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girl in Translation
by
Jean Kwok
Riverhead Books, 04/29/2010
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shoot to Thrill: A Monkeewrench Novel
by
P. J. Tracy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/29/2010
It begins with a floater.
When Minneapolis homicide cops Gino Rolseth and Leo Magozzi are called to a derelict stretch of the Mississippi River, ...
more
The Dead Republic: A Novel
by
Roddy Doyle
Viking, 04/29/2010
Roddy Doyle's irrepressible Irish rebel Henry Smart is back - and he is not mellowing with age. Saved from death in California's Monument Valley by ...
more
The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World
by
M.D., Dora Calott Wang
Riverhead Books, 04/29/2010
In the past two decades, a seismic shift has occurred within the walls of our nation's hospitals and doctor's offices. The medical profession - once ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Tomorrow River
by
Lesley Kagen
Dutton, 04/29/2010
During the summer of 1968, Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into ...
more
A Question of Belief: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 05/01/2010
In
A Question of Belief, Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. With...
more
Dead and Buried
by
Barbara Hambly
Severn House, 05/01/2010
New Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
by
Robin Hobb
Eos, 05/01/2010
Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Final Target
by
Steven Gore
Poisoned Pen Press, 05/01/2010
From San Francisco to London to Kiev, investigator Graham Gage is in a race against the FBI and Ukraine gangsters to solve an intricate stock swindle ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World - and Why Their Differences Matter
by
Stephen Prothero
HarperOne, 05/01/2010
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gunshot Road: An Emily Tempest Investigation
by
Adrian Hyland
Soho Press, 05/01/2010
Emily Tempest is appointed an aboriginal community police officer for the Moonlight Downs station. Investigating the possible murder of an elderly ...
more
Mysteries
Husband and Wife: A Novel
by
Leah Stewart
Harper, 05/01/2010
Sarah Price is thirty-five years old. She doesn't feel as though she's getting older, but there are some noticeable changes: a hangover after two ...
more
Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Harper, 05/01/2010
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarite - known as Tete - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mistwood
by
Leah Cypess
Greenwillow Books, 05/01/2010
Isabel remembers nothing. Nothing before the prince rode into her forest to take her back to the castle. Nothing about who she is supposed to be, or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir
by
Paul Guest
Ecco, 05/01/2010
Paul Guest was twelve years old, racing down a hill on a too big, ancient bicycle, when he discovered he had no brakes. Steering into anything that ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Reckless: A Novel
by
Andrew Gross
William Morrow, 05/01/2010
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by ...
more
Smells Like Dog
by
Suzanne Selfors
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/01/2010
Meet Homer Pudding, an ordinary farm boy who's got big dreams - to follow in the footsteps of his famous treasure-hunting uncle. But when Uncle Drake ...
more
Literary Fiction
Spells
by
Aprilynne Pike
HarperTeen, 05/01/2010
"I can't just storm in and proclaim my intentions. I can't ‘steal' you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you'll ask," Tamani said...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Stettin Station
by
David Downing
Soho Press, 05/01/2010
In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two ...
more
Thrillers
The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles: A California Century Mystery
by
Ken Kuhlken
Poisoned Pen Press, 05/01/2010
In 1926, when musician Tom Hickey reads in a broadside about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report, and discovers the Negro victim ...
more
The Black Minutes
by
Martin Solares
Grove Press, 05/01/2010
Paperback Original. When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into ...
more
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Carrie Diaries
by
Candace Bushnell
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/01/2010
Before Carrie Bradshaw hit the big time in the City, she was a regular girl growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut. How did she turn into one of the...
more
The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
by
Bruce Feiler
William Morrow, 05/01/2010
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Hypnotist: The Reincarnationist, Book 3
by
M. J. Rose
Mira, 05/01/2010
An FBI agent, tormented by a death he wasn't able to prevent, a crime he's never been able to solve and a love he's never forgotten, discovers that ...
more
The Marrowbone Marble Company: A Novel
by
Glenn Taylor
Ecco, 05/01/2010
1941. Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, West Virginia. He courts Rachel, the boss's ...
more
The Queen of Palmyra
by
Minrose Gwin
William Morrow, 05/01/2010
Paperback Original. In the turbulent southern summer of 1963, Millwood's white population steers clear of "Shake Rag," the black section of town. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel
by
Elizabeth George
Harper, 05/01/2010
On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and ...
more
Mysteries
When Winter Returns: A Rosie Winter Mystery
by
Kathryn Miller Haines
William Morrow, 05/01/2010
Back from their USO stint in the South Pacific in the fall of 1943, Rosie Winter and her best friend, Jayne, head upstate to visit the home of Jayne's...
more
Fire Will Fall
by
Carol Plum-Ucci
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/03/2010
ShadowStrike poisoned the water of Trinity Falls two months ago. Now the Trinity Four, the teens most affected by the poison, have been isolated in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Red Thread: A Novel
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2010
“In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. Who is at the end of your red ...
more
Toxic Flora: Poems
by
Kimiko Hahn
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2010
For Kimiko Hahn, the language and imagery of science open up magical possibilities for the poet. Inspired by articles from the weekly “Science ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Zen and Xander Undone
by
Amy Kathleen Ryan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/03/2010
Zen and Xander are sisters - truly, madly, deeply sisters, and this is their last summer together.
Zen is the "good" girl with a black belt in ...
more
A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West
by
Ian Johnson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/04/2010
In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Eagle Named Freedom: My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
by
Jeff Guidry
William Morrow, 05/04/2010
With the emotional intensity of
A Lion Named Christian and the charm of
Alex & Me, this is the inspiring story of a dedicated man who lovingly nursed ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Blue-Eyed Devil
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/04/2010
Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the ...more
Diamond Ruby: A Novel
by
Joseph Wallace
Touchstone, 05/04/2010
Paperback Original. Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Innocent
by
Scott Turow
Grand Central Publishing, 05/04/2010
The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller
Presumed Innocent,
Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once ...
more
Play Dead
by
Ryan Brown
Pocket Books, 05/04/2010
Today’s #1
New York Times bestselling thriller writers agree: Ryan Brown’s compulsively readable first novel is unbeatable—a darkly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tell Us We're Home
by
Marina Budhos
Atheneum Books, 05/04/2010
Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance...
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The Invisible Bridge
by
Julie Orringer
Knopf, 05/04/2010
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by
Nathaniel Philbrick
Viking, 05/04/2010
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Map of True Places
by
Brunonia Barry
William Morrow, 05/04/2010
Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats—a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She's now a ...
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The Prince of Mist
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/04/2010
It's war time, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Red Pyramid: The Kane Chronicles, Book 1
by
Rick Riordan
Hyperion Books for Children, 05/04/2010
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma
by
Zoya Phan & Damien Lewis
Free Press, 05/04/2010
Once a royal kingdom and then part of the British Empire, Burma long held sway in the Western imagination as a mythic place of great beauty. In recent...
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Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness
by
Dominique Browning
Atlas & Co, 05/09/2010
In November 2007, former editor in chief of
House & Garden magazine Dominique Browning experienced what thousands have since experienced. She lost her...
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Biography/Memoir
Boom!
by
Mark Haddon
David Fickling Books, 05/11/2010
An explosive, highly charged, and hilarious middle-grade adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fever Dream: Special Agent Pendergast Series #10
by
Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing, 05/11/2010
At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic ...
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Folly
by
Marthe Jocelyn
Wendy Lamb Books, 05/11/2010
Three fates intertwine in this moving and passionate love story set in Victorian London.
Mary Finn: country girl, maid to a lord in London
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Heart of the Matter
by
Emily Giffin
St. Martin's Press, 05/11/2010
"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives." -
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
...
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Henrietta Hornbuckle's Circus of Life
by
Michael de Guzman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/11/2010
Henrietta cherishes her family’s kooky existence working as clowns for a small, shabby traveling circus. As far as she is concerned, she has it ...
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Literary Fiction
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by
Daniel Okrent
Scribner, 05/11/2010
Last Call is a narrative history of Prohibition. It explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Needles and Pearls: A Novel
by
Gil McNeil
Voice, 05/11/2010
Paperback Original. The warm and witty sequel to
The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club
Slip one ...
Two weddings and a year after her ...
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Literary Fiction
Raiders from the North: Empire of the Moghul
by
Alex Rutherford
Thomas Dunne Books, 05/11/2010
The mighty Empire of the Moghuls burst out of Central Asia into India in the sixteenth century. The first in a compelling new series of novels,
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
by
Jack Rakove
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/11/2010
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era
by
Clyde Prestowitz
Free Press, 05/11/2010
Consider This Shocking Fact: While China’s number one export to the United States is $46 billion of computer equipment, the number one export ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Frozen Rabbi
by
Steve Stern
Algonquin Books, 05/11/2010
What happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ...
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The Good Son: A Novel
by
Michael Gruber
Henry Holt and Company, 05/11/2010
Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply ...
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The Nearest Exit
by
Olen Steinhauer
Minotaur Books, 05/11/2010
Now faced with the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no choice but to turn back to his old job as a "tourist." Before he ...
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The Pregnant Widow: A Novel
by
Martin Amis
Knopf, 05/11/2010
The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its ...
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The Red Umbrella
by
Christina Gonzalez
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/11/2010
The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Same River Twice
by
Ted Mooney
Knopf, 05/11/2010
When Odile Mével, a French clothing designer, agrees to smuggle ceremonial May Day banners out of the former Soviet Union, she thinks she’s ...
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The Water Seeker
by
Kimberly Willis Holt
Henry Holt and Company, 05/11/2010
Amos Kincaid is the son of a dowser - a person gifted in knowing how to "find" water deep in the ground. As a young person, Amos doesn’t ...
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Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart
by
Lynn Schooler
Bloomsbury USA, 05/11/2010
In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
War
by
Sebastian Junger
Twelve Books, 05/11/2010
In his breakout bestseller,
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Name Is Mary Sutter
by
Robin Oliveira
Viking, 05/13/2010
In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
by
Juliet B. Schor
Penguin Young Readers Group, 05/13/2010
In
Plenitude economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Strip
by
Thomas Perry
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/13/2010
An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu 'Manco' Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank’s ...
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The Wisdom of Bees: What the Hive Can Teach Business about Leadership, Efficiency, and Growth
by
Ph.D., Michael O'Malley
Portfolio, 05/13/2010
"It seemed to me that the bees were working on the very same kinds of problems we are trying to solve. How can large, diverse groups work together ...
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Advice
The Rehearsal: A Novel
by
Eleanor Catton
Reagan Arthur, 05/17/2010
A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
61 Hours: A Reacher Novel
by
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 05/18/2010
Jack Reacher is back.
The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1
New York Times bestselling ...
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Amandine: A Novel
by
Marlena de Blasi
Ballantine Books, 05/18/2010
Marlena de Blasi, the acclaimed author of such delectable memoirs as
A Thousand Days in Venice and
That Summer in Sicily, now brings her luminous ...
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Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story
by
Karen Connelly
Nan A. Talese, 05/18/2010
When Karen Connelly finds herself in Burma in the mid-nineties, she discovers the unexpected beauty and generosity of a people struggling under a ...
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By Fire, By Water
by
Mitchell Kaplan
Other Press, 05/18/2010
Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
by
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free Press, 05/18/2010
Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with
Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the
New York ...more
Storm Prey
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/18/2010
This time, there's a storm brewing...Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital ...
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Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
by
Gabriel Schoenfeld
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/24/2010
"Leaking" - the unauthorized disclosure of classified information - is a well-established part of the U.S. government's normal functioning. Gabriel ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
by
Manjit Kumar
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/24/2010
Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren’t shocked by quantum theory, you didn’t really understand it. For most people, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
City of Fear: A Novel
by
David Hewson
Delacorte Press, 05/25/2010
It's the height of the tourist season in Rome, and security is tight as world leaders gather for a G8 summit. While politicians bicker behind the ...
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Light Boxes: A Novel
by
Shane Jones
Penguin Books, 05/25/2010
Paperback. With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descriptions, and a wholly unique style, this idiosyncratic debut introduces a new and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mattaponi Queen: Stories
by
Belle Boggs
Graywolf Press, 05/25/2010
et on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women ...
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Literary Fiction
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by
Erik Conway & Naomi Oreskes
Bloomsbury USA, 05/25/2010
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Psycho: A Novel
by
Robert Bloch
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 05/25/2010
Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for the past 20 years, or so people think. Norman knows better, though.
Ever since leaving the ...
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Thrillers
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography
by
Selina Hastings
Random House, 05/25/2010
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world,...
more
The Spot: Stories
by
David Means
Faber and Faber, 05/25/2010
The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which a gang of men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery.
The Spot is a place deep in ...
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
by
John Grisham
Dutton Children's Books, 05/25/2010
A perfect murder
A faceless witness
A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth ... and he’s only thirteen years old
Meet Theodore Boone ...more
Thrillers
Windblowne
by
Stephen Messer
Random House Children's Publishing, 05/25/2010
A high-flying fantasy adventure that will blow readers away!
Every kite Oliver touches flies straight into the ground, making him the laughingstock of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City - and Determined the Future of Cities
by
Joe Flood
Riverhead Books, 05/27/2010
New York City, 1968. The RAND Corporation had presented an alluring proposal to a city on the brink of economic collapse: Using RAND's computer models...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Stormchasers: A Novel
by
Jenna Blum
Dutton, 05/27/2010
In
Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum proved herself a master storyteller with brilliant insight into the spectrum of human emotion. Now, Blum turns her ...
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A Little Book of Language
by
David Crystal
Yale University Press, 06/01/2010
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia
by
Rick Collignon
Unbridled Books, 06/01/2010
Paperback Original. The gentle-hearted Flavio Montoya returns, now as the aged scion of his family, still tending his sister Ramona's fields and ...
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Agents of Treachery: Breathtaking, Never Before Published Spy Fiction from Today’s Most Exciting Writers
by
Otto Penzler (editor)
Vintage, 06/01/2010
Paperback Original. For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers ...
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All Over the Map
by
Laura Fraser
Harmony Books, 06/01/2010
On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
American Music
by
Jane Mendelsohn
Knopf, 06/01/2010
From the author of
I Was Amelia Earhart, a luminous love story that winds through several generations—told in Jane Mendelsohn’s distinctive ...
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Beautiful Maria of My Soul
by
Oscar Hijuelos
Hyperion, 06/01/2010
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty...
more
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. How the Working Poor Became Big Business
by
Gary Rivlin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2010
For most, the Great Crash of 2008 has meant troubling times. Not so for those in the flourishing poverty industry, for whom shrinking wages, pink ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Broken Glass
by
Alain Mabanckou
Soft Skull Press, 06/01/2010
Alain Mabanckou’s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the ...
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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
by
Michael Hiltzik
Free Press, 06/01/2010
As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crispin: The End of Time
by
Avi
HarperCollins Children's Books, 06/01/2010
"As long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I would be true to Bear's teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
House Justice: A Joe DeMarco Thriller
by
Mike Lawson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/01/2010
In his thrillers starring Joe DeMarco, Mike Lawson has made a name for himself as one of the most entertaining and insightful writers focusing on the ...
more
How To Make A Bird
by
Martine Murray
Reagan Arthur, 06/01/2010
It's dawn, on an empty road in the countryside. Empty, except for the girl in the long, red evening gown, standing next to a bicycle, and looking back...
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Literary Fiction
Insatiable
by
Meg Cabot
William Morrow, 06/01/2010
Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.
But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in ...
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Romance
Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel
by
Dorothea Benton Frank
William Morrow, 06/01/2010
Dorothea Benton Frank is a native of the South whose novels vividly capture the wild beauty, laid-back atmosphere, earthy characters, and charming ...
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Moscow Noir
by
Smirnova, Goumen (editors)
Akashic Books, 06/01/2010
The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and it isn't always pretty. Following Akashic ...
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Short Stories
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
by
Urrea & Cardinale
Cinco Puntos Press, 06/01/2010
Paperback Original. Be careful growing up in the green, wet, mango-sweet Mexican village of Rosario, where dead corpses rise up out of cathedral walls...
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My Name Is Memory
by
Ann Brashares
Riverhead Books, 06/01/2010
Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing...
more
Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea
by
Linda Greenlaw
Viking, 06/01/2010
Linda Greenlaw hadn't been bluewater fishing for ten years - not since the events chronicled in the books
The Perfect Storm and
The Hungry Ocean - but...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense
by
Phillip Margolin
Harper, 06/01/2010
Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice ...
more
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
by
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Harper, 06/01/2010
What happens when two New Yorkers (one an ex–drag queen) do the unthinkable: start over, have a herd of kids, and get a little dirty?
Find ...
more
The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
by
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 06/01/2010
The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc ...
more
The Dead Lie Down: A Novel
by
Sophie Hannah
Penguin Press, 06/01/2010
Paperback Original. Featuring the return of Sergeant Charlotte "Charlie" Zailer and DC Simon Waterhouse,
The Dead Lie Down is another sophisticated, ...
more
The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel
by
Brando Skyhorse
Free Press, 06/01/2010
We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.
With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer,
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by
William Rosen
Random House, 06/01/2010
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The One That I Want: A Novel
by
Allison Winn Scotch
Shaye Areheart Books, 06/01/2010
Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the perfect life she always dreamed of: married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance ...
more
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
by
Richard McGregor
Harper, 06/01/2010
China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy
by
Jill MacLean
Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, 06/01/2010
Paperback Original. An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new "girlfriend," and three relentless ...
more
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke: A Novel
by
Sally Gunning
William Morrow, 06/01/2010
From Sally Gunning, the critically acclaimed author of
The Widow’s War and
Bound, comes
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke,, the compelling story of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rule of Nine: A Paul Madriani Novel
by
Steve Martini
William Morrow, 06/01/2010
The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury...
more
Thrillers
The Shadow Hunt
by
Katherine Langrish
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2010
Wolf is on the run—from the oppressive monastery where he was raised, from the ghosts and demons that haunt the windswept moors of Devil's Edge, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Suburb Beyond The Stars
by
M.T. Anderson
Scholastic, 06/01/2010
Something very strange is happening in Vermont. It's not The Game of Sunken Places - Brian and Gregory have been through that before, and there's not...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wolven
by
Di Toft
The Chicken House, 06/01/2010
With his big snaggly teeth, patchy black fur, and glowing golden eyes, Woody is far from the cutest of dogs, yet Nat is strangely drawn to the rough ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hitch-22: A Memoir
by
Christopher Hitchens
Twelve Books, 06/02/2010
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a ...
more
Dear Money
by
Martha McPhee
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/03/2010
In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days ...
more
Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century
by
Tom Bower
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2010
A groundbreaking, in-depth, and authoritative twenty-year history of the hunt and speculation for our most vital natural resource.
Money, Politics, and...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sisters Red
by
Jackson Pearce
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/07/2010
Scarlet March lives to hunt the Fenris--the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
by
Oren Harman
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/07/2010
Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Stranger in the Family: A Novel of Suspense
by
Robert Barnard
Scribner, 06/08/2010
Kit Philipson has always felt like something of a stranger in his family. Growing up as the only child of professional parents in Glasgow, Scotland, ...
more
Backseat Saints
by
Joshilyn Jackson
Grand Central Publishing, 06/08/2010
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she's trapped in a...
more
Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
by
Samuel Shimon
Bloomsbury USA, 06/08/2010
Beirut is the 2009 World Book Capital, as designated by UNESCO, and at the center of the festivities, in collaboration with the world-renowned Hay ...
more
Buy Back
by
Brian M Wiprud
Minotaur Books, 06/08/2010
Tom Davin’s business is a bit unusual - he finds stolen art and sells it back to its owners for a good penny - until he uncovers a devious plot ...
more
Cut, Paste, Kill: A Lomax & Biggs Mystery
by
Marshall Karp
Minotaur Books, 06/08/2010
When Eleanor Bellingham-Crump - a socialite responsible for the death of a ten-year-old boy - turns up murdered on the floor of a Hollywood hotel...
more
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
by
Tom Bissell
Pantheon Books, 06/08/2010
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Speak No Evil: A Joe Donovan Thriller
by
Martyn Waites
Pegasus Books, 06/08/2010
Anne Marie is back in the hometown she hasn't seen for forty years, trying to live a normal life with her partner and teenage son. But that's ...
more
The Bohemian Girl
by
Kenneth Cameron
Minotaur Books, 06/08/2010
When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-20th -century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying she’s in ...
more
The Lion: A Novel
by
Nelson DeMille
Grand Central Publishing, 06/08/2010
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to
The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, ...
more
Thrillers
The Other Half of My Heart
by
Sundee T. Frazier
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 06/08/2010
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like Daddy. Together the family might look ...
more
Literary Fiction
So Cold the River
by
Michael Koryta
Little Brown & Company, 06/09/2010
It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her ...
more
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
by
Emily Horner
The Dial Press, 06/10/2010
For months, Cass has heard her best friend, Julia, whisper about a secret project. When Julia dies in a car accident, her drama friends decide to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Neighborhood Watch: A Novel
by
Cammie McGovern
Viking, 06/10/2010
Twelve years ago librarian Betsy Treading was convicted of murdering her neighbor, the bohemian loner Linda Sue. After DNA testing finally exonerates ...
more
The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
by
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Viking, 06/10/2010
Can one person really make a difference in the world? Twesigye Jackson Kaguri defied many naysayers - and his own nagging doubts - and proved that, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories
by
Joseph Epstein
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/14/2010
In his first collection of stories since
Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ...
more
After the Fall
by
Kylie Ladd
Doubleday, 06/15/2010
"That’s the thing about falling. It doesn’t go on indefinitely, and it rarely ends well..." In her page-turning fiction debut, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
by
James M. Tabor
Random House, 06/15/2010
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Crank (The Crank Trilogy)
by
Ellen Hopkins
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/15/2010
Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great, At least for a little while.
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high ...more
Literary Fiction
Far Cry
by
John Harvey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/15/2010
Ruth and Simon reluctantly agree to let their young teenage daughter, Heather, go off on a camping holiday in Cornwall with her best friend, Kelly, ...
more
Frankenstein: Lost Souls
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Spectra, 06/15/2010
In
Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
by
Alex Bellos
Free Press, 06/15/2010
An excursion through the world of math that brings readers the joy and beauty of the mathematical way of thinking vividly to life.
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
How Did You Get This Number
by
Sloane Crosley
Riverhead Books, 06/15/2010
From the author of the bestseller
I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned ...
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Imperial Bedrooms
by
Bret Easton Ellis
Knopf, 06/15/2010
Bret Easton Ellis’s debut,
Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into...
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Leaving the World: A Novel
by
Douglas Kennedy
Atria Books, 06/15/2010
Paperback Original. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would...
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Perfect Reader: A Novel
by
Maggie Pouncey
Pantheon Books, 06/15/2010
In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick-witted only child of Lewis ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Promises to Keep: A Novel
by
Jane Green
Viking, 06/15/2010
Callie Perry is a successful family photographer living in upstate New York. She adores her two daughters, has great friends, and actually doesn't ...
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Literary Fiction
Spies of the Balkans: A Novel
by
Alan Furst
Random House, 06/15/2010
Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its ...
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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
by
David Kirkpatrick
Simon & Schuster, 06/15/2010
The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders.
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ice Princess: A Novel
by
Camilla Lackberg
Pegasus Books, 06/15/2010
For the first time in English, the psychological thriller debut of No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Returning to her ...
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The Left Hand of God
by
Paul Hoffman
Dutton, 06/15/2010
They call him Cale.
He is destined to save the world...
...or destroy it.
In the Redeemer Sanctuary, the stronghold of a secretive sect of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Nobodies Album
by
Carolyn Parkhurst
Doubleday, 06/15/2010
From the bestselling author of
The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their ...
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The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1
by
Jacqueline West
The Dial Press, 06/15/2010
When eleven-year-old Olive moves into the crumbling old mansion on Linden Street, she's right to think there's something weird about the place, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Whiplash: FBI Series #14
by
Catherine Coulter
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/15/2010
Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to ...
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Thrillers
A Vintage Affair: A Novel
by
Isabel Wolff
Bantam Books, 06/22/2010
Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.
In Isabel Wolff’s captivating
A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat ...
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Bone Appetit: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery
by
Carolyn Haines
Minotaur Books, 06/22/2010
In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn Haines.
...
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Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung: A Memoir
by
Martha Mason
Bloomsbury USA, 06/22/2010
Paperback Original. After contracting polio as a young girl Martha Mason of tiny Lattimore, North Carolina, lived a record sixty-one of her seventy-...
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Biography/Memoir
Broken: A Novel
by
Karin Slaughter
Delacorte Press, 06/22/2010
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered ...
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Crashers
by
Dana Haynes
Minotaur Books, 06/22/2010
Whenever a plane goes down in the U.S., a "Go Team" made up of experts is assembled by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to investigate....
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Flash
by
Michael Cadnum
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/22/2010
When two teenage brothers bungle a bank robbery, their attempt to hide the evidence is witnessed—aurally—by Terrence, a legally blind ...
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Glimpse
by
Carol Lynch Williams
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 06/22/2010
In one moment
it is over.
In one moment
it is gone.
The morning grows
thin, grey
and our lives-
how they were-
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
High Before Homeroom
by
Maya Sloan
Simon & Schuster, 06/22/2010
Paperback Original. Losers, now
you can get the bad-boy rep the girls find positively irresistible! Unleash your dark side with the Doug Schaffer plan...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Intelligence
by
Susan Hasler
Thomas Dunne Books, 06/22/2010
Maddie James and her colleagues are terrorism experts working in a crumbling intelligence agency. They are certain another big terrorist attack is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Learning to Lose: A Novel
by
David Trueba
Other Press, 06/22/2010
From one of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary writers,
Learning to Lose is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Moving Pictures
by
Kathryn Immonen
Top Shelf Productions, 06/22/2010
Paperback Original.
Moving Pictures is the story of the awkward and dangerous relationship between curator Ila Gardner and officer Rolf Hauptmann, as ...
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Pray for Silence: A Kate Burkholder Thriller (Series #2)
by
Linda Castillo
Minotaur Books, 06/22/2010
New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil ...
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Shooting Kabul
by
N. H. Senzai
Simon & Schuster, 06/22/2010
But, here he was, half a world apart from his missing six year old sister who'd been lost because of him, as they'd fled Afghanistan. Adjusting to ...
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Historical Fiction
The Lovers: A Novel
by
Vendela Vida
Ecco, 06/22/2010
With the crystalline voice, mordant humor, and depth of feeling for which her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another ...
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The Wolves of Fairmount Park: A Crime Novel
by
Dennis Tafoya
Minotaur Books, 06/22/2010
In
The Wolves of Fairmount Park, Dennis Tafoya’s lyrical, intense, sometimes tragic and sometimes hopeful second novel, the details of a drive-by...
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Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's Fair on the Brink of War
by
James Mauro
Ballantine Books, 06/22/2010
The summer of 1939 was an epic turning point for America—a brief window between the Great Depression and World War II. It was the last season of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Space between Trees
by
Katie Williams
Chronicle Books, 06/23/2010
Not your everyday coming-of-age novel
This story was supposed to be about Evie - how she hasn't made a friend in years, how she tends to stretch the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg
by
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Books, 06/24/2010
"Success from the financial and from the prestige point of view ... is not enough; what matters even more is ... adherence to high moral and ...
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The Liar's Lullaby
by
Meg Gardiner
Dutton, 06/24/2010
Tasia McFarland is a washed-up country-pop singer desperate for the break that will get her topping the charts again. The tabloids have raked over ...
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The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay: Fiction
by
Beverly Jensen
Viking, 06/24/2010
In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick - a hardscrabble world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
by
Nadine Gordimer
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/28/2010
Few writers have been so much at the center of historic events as Nadine Gordimer.
Telling Times, the first comprehensive collection of her nonfiction...
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Dead Line
by
Stella Rimington
Knopf, 06/29/2010
As plans get under way for a Middle East peace conference at the Gleneagles resort in Scotland, alarming information comes to MI5 from a high-ranking ...
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Foreign Influence: A Scot Harvath Thriller
by
Brad Thor
Atria Books, 06/29/2010
Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Unfettered by the oversight of self-serving...
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Thrillers
Ice Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel, #8
by
Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books, 06/29/2010
New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen's relentless, inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as satisfying as ...
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Thrillers
Inside Out
by
Barry Eisler
Ballantine Books, 06/29/2010
Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who ...
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Kraken
by
China Mieville
Del Rey, 06/29/2010
With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Nights of Villjamur
by
Mark Charan Newton
Bantam Spectra, 06/29/2010
Following in the footsteps of writers like China Miéville and Richard K. Morgan, Mark Charan Newton balances style and storytelling in this bold ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Companion
by
Lorcan Roche
Europa Editions, 06/29/2010
Paperback Original.
The Companion tells a story of obsession and control in which the dynamics of love and patience are tested to breaking point and ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Quickening
by
Michelle Hoover
Other Press, 06/29/2010
Paperback Original. Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Quickening Maze: A Novel
by
Adam Foulds
Penguin Books, 06/29/2010
Based on real events,
The Quickening Maze won over UK critics and readers alike with its rapturous prose and vivid exploration of poetry and madness. ...
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: A Novel
by
Lola Shoneyin
William Morrow, 06/29/2010
When Baba Segi woke up with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Work Song
by
Ivan Doig
Riverhead Books, 06/29/2010
An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Angel with Two Faces: A Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey
by
Nicola Upson
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/01/2010
Paperback Original. Exhausted and disillusioned with the world of theater in May 1935, Josephine Tey has traveled to Cornwall to spend the summer with...
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Bamboo People
by
Mitali Perkins
Charlesbridge, 07/01/2010
Bang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles.
I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, ...more
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist
by
Donald P. Ryan
William Morrow, 07/01/2010
With its spectacular temples, tombs, monuments, and mummies, as well as esoteric metaphysics, legendary historical characters, and connections to ...
more
Empty Mile
by
Matthew Stokoe
Akashic Books, 07/01/2010
Paperback Original. When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mistake that caused him to flee his...
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Five Days Apart
by
Chris Binchy
Harper, 07/01/2010
When the bright but tongue-tied David sees the magnetic Camille at a party, he plays it safe, asking his smooth and charming best friend, Alex, to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
by
Jonathan Weiner
Ecco, 07/01/2010
In recent years, the dream of eternal youth has started to look like more than just a dream. In the twentieth century alone, life expectancy increased...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Now I See the Moon: A Mother, a Son, a Miracle
by
Elaine Hall
Harper Studio, 07/01/2010
The New York Times references Elaine Hall as "The Child Whisperer." Her profound bond with children has been the defining force of her life and has ...
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The Crowded Shadows
by
Celine Kiernan
Orbit, 07/01/2010
Paperback Original. Every tyrant who ever threatened the Kingdom is gathering to Alberon's table, and the forest is alive with spies, wolves, and ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Magician's Accomplice: A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation
by
Michael Genelin
Soho Press, 07/01/2010
Devastated by her lover’s death in an explosion—on the same day an indigent student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava—Jana is ...
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Mysteries
Tutankhamun: The Book of Shadows
by
Nick Drake
Harper, 07/01/2010
As Egypt's young king is crowned, a vicious killer waits in the shadows...
Egypt's next Pharaoh, the young Tutankhamun, is ready to claim his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
by
Stephanie Hemphill
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/01/2010
Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When her father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann grasps her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Dog's Purpose
by
W. Bruce Cameron
Forge Books, 07/06/2010
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story...
more
As Husbands Go: A Novel
by
Susan Isaacs
Scribner, 07/06/2010
Call her superficial, but Susie B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten assumed her marriage was great -- and why not? Jonah Gersten, M.D., a Park Avenue ...
more
Bait
by
Alex Sanchez
Simon & Schuster, 07/06/2010
But when he punches out a guy in school who was looking at him funny, he finds himself in juvenile court, facing the possibility of probation, or ...
more
Literary Fiction
Crossing the Tracks
by
Barbara Stuber
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 07/06/2010
At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts - no home, no family, no direction. After her mother's early death, Iris's father focuses on big plans for his new...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
by
Kevin Starr
Bloomsbury USA, 07/06/2010
The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Kings of the Earth: A Novel
by
Jon Clinch
Random House, 07/06/2010
The edge of civilization is closer than we think.
It’s as close as a primitive farm on the margins of an upstate New York town, where the ...
more
My Life as a Book
by
Janet Tashjian
Henry Holt and Company, 07/06/2010
Summer’s finally here, and Derek Fallon is looking forward to pelting the UPS truck with water balloons, climbing onto the garage roof, and ...
more
Still Missing
by
Chevy Stevens
St. Martin's Press, 07/06/2010
On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Taroko Gorge
by
Jacob Ritari
Unbridled Books, 07/06/2010
A disillusioned and raggedy American reporter and his drunken photojournalist partner are the last to see three Japanese schoolgirls who disappear ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Fiddler in the Subway: And Other Great Pieces You May Have Missed
by
Gene Weingarten
Simon & Schuster, 07/06/2010
Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are ...
more
The Ghost of Milagro Creek
by
Melanie Sumner
Algonquin Books, 07/06/2010
The story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys, Mister and Tomás, she raised to adulthood unfolds in a barrio of ...
more
The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life
by
David Lawday
Grove Press, 07/06/2010
One of the Western world's most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. George-Jacques ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel
by
Richard C Morais
Scribner, 07/06/2010
"That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Island
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Reagan Arthur, 07/06/2010
Birdie Cousins has planned a getaway with her daughter Chess on rustic, charming Tuckernuck Island off the coast of Nantucket, a chance to bond before...
more
The King's Mistress
by
Emma Campion
Crown, 07/06/2010
History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Writing Circle
by
Corinne Demas
Voice, 07/06/2010
When Nancy, whose most recently published work is a medical newsletter, is asked to join a writing group made up of established writers, she accepts, ...
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Literary Fiction
They're Watching
by
Gregg Hurwitz
St. Martin's Press, 07/06/2010
Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered ...
more
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
by
Thomas French
Hyperion, 07/06/2010
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of
Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Bliss, Remembered
by
Frank Deford
Overlook, 07/08/2010
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political ...
more
The Blind Contessa's New Machine: A Novel
by
Carey Wallace
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/08/2010
In the early 1800s, a young Italian contessa, Carolina Fantoni, realizes she is going blind shortly before she marries the town's most sought-after ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
by
Julia Whitty
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/09/2010
At the center of
Deep Blue Home - a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it - is Whitty’...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by
Sam Kean
Little Brown & Company, 07/12/2010
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wherever You Go: A Novel
by
Joan Leegant
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/12/2010
Yona Stern has traveled from New York to Israel to make amends with her estranged sister, a stoic ideologue and mother of five who has dedicated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beautiful Malice: A Novel
by
Rebecca James
Bantam Books, 07/13/2010
Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past, Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Corduroy Mansions: A Novel
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 07/13/2010
Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London’s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home...
more
Faithful Place
by
Tana French
Viking, 07/13/2010
The hotly anticipated third novel of the Dublin murder squad from the
New York Times bestselling author
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, ...
more
Finny
by
Justin Kramon
Random House, 07/13/2010
Justin Kramon’s debut novel,
Finny, is a sweeping, enchanting voyage, an insightful story about a young woman’s complicated path to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fly Away Home: A Novel
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 07/13/2010
From the #1
New York Times bestselling author, a novel about a family of women who seek refuge in an old beach house.
Layover in Dubai
by
Dan Fesperman
Knopf, 07/13/2010
Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate Security and Investigation to spy on another employee while they’re traveling for the ...
more
Thrillers
Lucy
by
Laurence Gonzales
Knopf, 07/13/2010
Laurence Gonzales’s electrifying adventure opens in the jungles of the Congo. Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees—the bonobos&#...
more
Mamba Point
by
Kurtis Scaletta
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 07/13/2010
When his dad gets a job at the U.S. embassy in Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus Tuttle knows it's his chance for a fresh start. Instead of being his ...
more
Memory Wall: Stories
by
Anthony Doerr
Scribner, 07/13/2010
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that ...
more
Red Hook Road
by
Ayelet Waldman
Doubleday, 07/13/2010
Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers,
Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ...
more
Rules of Betrayal
by
Christopher Reich
Doubleday, 07/13/2010
In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan–Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and ...
more
Thrillers
Savages
by
Don Winslow
Simon & Schuster, 07/13/2010
Young, independent Laguna Beach-based marijuana kingpins are blackmailed into working for the Baja Cartel after one of their threesome is kidnapped.
The Debba
by
Avner Mandelman
Other Press, 07/13/2010
Paperback Original. In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/13/2010
Detective Dave Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in...
more
The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller
by
John Connolly
Atria Books, 07/13/2010
In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and ...
more
Thrillers
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
by
Paul Greenberg
Penguin Books, 07/15/2010
Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Surf Guru
by
Doug Dorst
Riverhead Books, 07/15/2010
With the publication of his debut novel,
Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst was widely celebrated as one of the most creative, original literary voices ...
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The Taken: A Hazel Micallef Mystery #2
by
Inger Ash Wolfe
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/15/2010
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she has no real option but to move into her ex-husband’s ...
more
Elegies for the Brokenhearted
by
Christie Hodgen
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/19/2010
Who are the people you'll never forget? For Mary Murphy, there are five: A skirt-chasing, car-racing uncle with whiskey breath and a three-day beard....
more
The Messenger of Athens
by
Anne Zouroudi
Reagan Arthur, 07/19/2010
Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched and untroubled by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is ...
more
A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter
by
Peter Straub
Pegasus Books, 07/20/2010
Paperback Original.
A Special Place, Peter Straub’s first published novella, will come to stand as one of the author’s most deeply ...
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All That Lives Must Die: Book Two of the Mortal Coils Series
by
Eric Nylund
Tor Books, 07/20/2010
Paperback Original. Eliot and Fiona Post are twins caught up in an epic custody battle between their mother's and father's families. Their ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Murder at Mansfield Park: A Novel
by
Lynn Shepherd
St. Martin's Griffin, 07/20/2010
Paperback Original. "Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of
Mansfield Park." --Lionel Trilling
In this ingenious ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Bird of the River
by
Kage Baker
Tom Doherty Associates, 07/20/2010
In this new story set in the world of
The Anvil of the World and
The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Blood of Lorraine
by
Barbara Pope
Pegasus Books, 07/20/2010
In the wake of the Vernet murders in Aix-en-Provence, magistrate Bernard Martin moves to the town of Nancy in Lorraine, France, along with his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Death of the Adversary: A Novel
by
Hans Keilson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/20/2010
Paperback. Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II,
The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Rembrandt Affair
by
Daniel Silva
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/20/2010
Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife ...
more
Thrillers
Wanting Sheila Dead: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
by
Jane Haddam
Minotaur Books, 07/20/2010
Sheila Dunham is a gossip columnist's dream - she's famous, loud and, to most who meet or see her, deeply offensive. As a result, she's been fired ...
more
Mysteries
The Doctor and the Diva: A Novel
by
Adrienne McDonnell
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/22/2010
It is 1903. Dr. Ravell is a young Harvard-educated obstetrician with a growing reputation for helping couples conceive. He has treated women from all ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Star Island: A Novel
by
Carl Hiaasen
Knopf, 07/27/2010
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest ...
more
Stash
by
David Matthew Klein
Broadway Books, 07/27/2010
Gwen Raine is a woman readers will instantly recognize: an attractive, thirtyish stay-at-home mom who lives in the kind of tranquil suburban community...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Breaking of Eggs
by
Jim Powell
Penguin Books, 07/27/2010
A debut novel unwinds the tangle of twentieth-century history with wit, humor, and humanity...
61-year-old Feliks is a naturalized Frenchman, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Clouds Beneath the Sun
by
Mackenzie Ford
Nan A. Talese, 07/27/2010
Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication of
Gifts of War, which was praised in
USA Today as "an ...
more
The Dark Vineyard: A mystery of the French countryside
by
Martin Walker
Knopf, 07/27/2010
Benoît (Bruno) Courrèges—devoted friend,
cuisinier extraordinaire and the town's
only municipal policeman—rushes to the scene when...
more
The Korean War: A History
by
Bruce Cumings
The Modern Library, 07/27/2010
A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored
For Americans, it was a discrete ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Broken
by
Karin Fossum
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/01/2010
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear.The woman is an author ...
more
Displaced Persons: A Novel
by
Ghita Schwarz
William Morrow, 08/01/2010
Moving from the Allied zones of postwar Germany to New York City, an astonishing novel of grief and anger, memory and survival witnessed through the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Heart of a Samurai
by
Margi Preus
Amulet Books, 08/01/2010
In 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave: A Dr. Siri Investigation Set in Laos, #7
by
Colin Cotterill
Soho Press, 08/01/2010
Three young Laotian women have died of fencing sword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete his ...
more
Mysteries
Mentor: A Memoir
by
Tom Grimes
Tin House Books, 08/01/2010
A chance encounter between two writers develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Frank Conroy, author of
Stop-Time, meets Tom Grimes...
more
Moscow Sting: A Novel
by
Alex Dryden
Ecco, 08/01/2010
The threat of Russia as a hostile superpower returns in this chilling spy thriller. When British spy, Finn, is brutally murdered by a Russian assassin...
more
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington
by
Charles Euchner
Beacon Press, 08/01/2010
History books record August 28, 1963, as the day when over a quarter-million people rallied in Washington, in the first-ever nationally televised ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Queen of the Night: A Novel of Suspense
by
J. A. Jance
William Morrow, 08/01/2010
Every summer, in an event that is commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But ...
more
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
by
Heidi Cullen
Harper, 08/01/2010
In
The Weather of the Future, Dr. Heidi Cullen, one of our foremost climatologists and environmental journalists, offers detailed predictions of what ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by
Mary Roach
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/02/2010
The best-selling author of
Stiff and
Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity.
Space is a world ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Rich Boy
by
Sharon Pomerantz
Twelve Books, 08/02/2010
Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome and clever, Robert glides ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The War to End All Wars: World War I
by
Russell Freedman
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 08/02/2010
The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel
by
Nevada Barr
Minotaur Books, 08/03/2010
Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of ...
more
Come Sunday: A Novel
by
Isla Morley
Picador, 08/03/2010
Winner of the 2009 Kafka Prize for Fiction and Finalist for the Commonwealth Prize
Abbe is a restless young mother living on the outskirts of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fragile: A Novel
by
Lisa Unger
Shaye Areheart Books, 08/03/2010
Despite their mostly happy marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds—Maggie is positive ...
more
Here Comes Another Lesson: Stories
by
Stephen O'Connor
Free Press, 08/03/2010
Paperback Original. In
Here Comes Another Lesson, O'Connor, whose stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, ...
more
I Curse the River of Time
by
Per Petterson
Graywolf Press, 08/03/2010
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, his mother gets diagnosed with ...
more
In Harm's Way: A Walt Fleming Novel
by
Ridley Pearson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/03/2010
Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river ...
more
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
by
Oliver Bullough
Basic Books, 08/03/2010
The jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfare. But today the region ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mothers and Other Liars
by
Amy Bourret
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/03/2010
Paperback Original. Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Hollywood: A Novel
by
Mona Simpson
Knopf, 08/03/2010
A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of
Anywhere But Here and
A Regular Guy, her first in ten years. It tells the...
more
Literary Fiction
Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance
by
Sara Poole
St. Martin's Press, 08/03/2010
In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Stella
by
Siegfried Lenz
Other Press, 08/03/2010
Paperback Original. In a small town on the Baltic coast, in a community steeped in maritime industries and local mores, a teenager falls in love with ...
more
Literary Fiction
Strangers at the Feast: A Novel
by
Jennifer Vanderbes
Scribner, 08/03/2010
On Thanksgiving Day 2007, as the country teeters on the brink of a recession, three generations of the Olson family gather. Eleanor and Gavin worry ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Garden of Betrayal
by
Lee Vance
Knopf, 08/03/2010
Manhattan, 2002: Mark Wallace has it all—he’s married to Claire, the love of his life; they have two bright, beautiful children, and his is ...
more
The Good Psychologist: A Novel
by
Noam Shpancer
Henry Holt and Company, 08/03/2010
Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel opens as a psychologist reluctantly takes on a new client—an exotic dancer whose severe anxiety is keeping ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Red Queen: A Novel
by
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 08/03/2010
Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stuff That Never Happened
by
Maddie Dawson
Shaye Areheart Books, 08/03/2010
What if you were married to a wonderful husband for twenty-eight years but in love with another man? What if you were in love with them both?
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones
by
David Axe
NAL, 08/03/2010
Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan's mountains. Long patrols on the sandy ...
more
A Stranger Like You: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Brundage
Viking, 08/05/2010
Hedda Chase is a top-flight executive producer at Gladiator Films, fast-tracked in the business since she graduated from Yale. An aggressive ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
How to Be an American Housewife: A Novel
by
Margaret Dilloway
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/05/2010
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters, and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Caretaker of Lorne Field
by
Dave Zeltserman
Overlook, 08/05/2010
Jack Durkin is the ninth generation of Durkins who have weeded Lorne Field for nearly 300 years. Though he and his wife Lydia are miserable and would ...
more
The Man Who Never Returned: A Novel
by
Peter Quinn
Overlook, 08/05/2010
Judge Joe Crater's disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of The ...
more
The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done
by
Peter Miller
Avery, 08/05/2010
The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival
by
Amy Boesky
Gotham Books, 08/05/2010
At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
City of Veils: A Novel
by
Zoë Ferraris
Little Brown & Company, 08/09/2010
Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical ...
more
Literary Fiction
Three Sisters
by
Bi Feiyu
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/09/2010
In a small village in China, the Wang family has produced seven sisters in its quest to have a boy; three of the sisters emerge as the lead characters...
more
Blind Man's Alley: A Novel
by
Justin Peacock
Doubleday, 08/10/2010
A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The ...
more
Composed: A Memoir
by
Rosanne Cash
Viking, 08/10/2010
For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for ...
more
Dracula in Love
by
Karen Essex
Doubleday, 08/10/2010
From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula’s eternal muse, Mina Murray, vividly recounts the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
by
Gail Caldwell
Random House, 08/10/2010
"It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too." So begins this gorgeous memoir ...
more
The Eternal Ones
by
Kirsten Miller
Razorbill, 08/10/2010
Haven Moore can't control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she ...
more
The Legacy: A Novel
by
Kirsten Tranter
Washington Square Press, 08/10/2010
Paperback Original. A thrilling and addictive novel about three unlikely friends and the web of lies that unravels after one of them goes missing.
...
more
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
by
Michael Capuzzo
Gotham Books, 08/10/2010
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ...
more
Toby and the Secrets of the Tree
by
Timothee de Fombelle
Candlewick Press, 08/10/2010
Toby's world is under greater threat than ever before. A giant crater has been dug right into the center of the Tree, moss and lichen have invaded the...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A World Without Islam
by
Graham E. Fuller
Little Brown & Company, 08/11/2010
What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists.
But what if that weren't ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Postcard Killers
by
James Patterson
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/16/2010
Paris is stunning in the summer
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he ...
more
Thrillers
Crossfire
by
Felix & Dick Francis
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/17/2010
Shell-shocked and missing a foot - lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan - Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, ...
more
Prospero in Hell
by
L. Jagi Lamplighter
Tor Books, 08/17/2010
The search of a daughter for her father is but the beginning of this robust fantasy adventure. For five hundred years since the events of William ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Scumble
by
Ingrid Law
Dial Books for Young Readers, 08/17/2010
Nine years after Mibs's
Savvy journey, her cousin Ledge has just turned thirteen ...
But Ledger Kale's savvy is a total dud--all he does is make ...
more
The American: A Special Edition of A Very Private Gentleman
by
Martin Booth
Picador, 08/17/2010
Paperback. The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla - Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints ...
more
The Blasphemer: A Novel
by
Nigel Farndale
Shaye Areheart Books, 08/17/2010
On its way to the Galápagos Islands, a light aircraft crashes into the sea. Zoologist Daniel Kennedy is confronted with a stark Darwinian choice....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Cobra
by
Frederick Forsyth
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/17/2010
What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the...
more
Thrillers
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
by
Charlie Price
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/17/2010
Eyewitness to two killings, fourteen-year-old Gabriel James relates the shocking story behind the murders in a police interrogation ...
more
The Last Lie
by
Stephen White
Dutton, 08/17/2010
New York Times bestselling author Stephen White returns to his beloved Alan Gregory series with a taut, ripped-from-the-headlines crime story.
...
more
The Last Page
by
Anthony Huso
Tor Books, 08/17/2010
The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
by
Melanie Thernstrom
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/17/2010
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Pindar Diamond: A Novel
by
Katie Hickman
Bloomsbury USA, 08/17/2010
In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest - a baby the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Queen of Patpong: A Poke Rafferty Thriller
by
Timothy Hallinan
William Morrow, 08/17/2010
For American travel writer Poke Rafferty, life finally seems to hold some semblance of stability. He and his longtime love, Rose, have gone through ...
more
The Unsinkable Walker Bean
by
Aaron Renier
First Second, 08/17/2010
Paperback Original; Graphic Novel. Walker Bean never wanted to be a high-seas pirate waging a pitched battle against the forces of the deep. It just ...
more
Three Stations: Arkady Renko Series #7
by
Martin Cruz Smith
Simon & Schuster, 08/17/2010
For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing
Gorky Park, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. ...
more
Thrillers
Turbulence
by
Giles Foden
Knopf, 08/17/2010
The D-day landings—the fate of 2.5 million men, three thousand landing craft and the entire future of Europe depend on the right weather ...
more
The Eternal City: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
by
Kathleen Graber
Princeton University Press, 08/19/2010
With an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists,
The Eternal City offers eloquent testimony to...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel
by
Peter Robinson
William Morrow, 08/24/2010
A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But since Banks is away on ...
more
Bearers of the Black Staff: Legends of Shannara
by
Terry Brooks
Del Rey, 08/24/2010
For more than three decades,
New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks has ruled the epic fantasy realm with his legendary Shannara series. With ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Butterfly
by
Sonya Hartnett
Candlewick Press, 08/24/2010
Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will ...
more
Spider Bones: A Temperance Brennan Novel
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 08/24/2010
#1
New York Times bestseller Kathy Reichs is back with her thirteenth novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan.
more
The Evolutionary Void: The Void Trilogy: Book Three
by
Peter F. Hamilton
Del Rey, 08/24/2010
Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sonderberg Case
by
Elie Wiesel
Knopf, 08/24/2010
Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself ...
more
The Thieves of Darkness
by
Richard Doetsch
Atria Books, 08/24/2010
Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, ...
more
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by
John Vaillant
Knopf, 08/24/2010
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it’...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
by
Richard Rhodes
Knopf, 08/24/2010
The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
by
Yunte Huang
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/30/2010
On a balmy July night in 1904, a wiry figure sauntered alone through the dim alleys of Honolulu's Chinatown. He strolled up a set of rickety steps and...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Novel Bookstore
by
Laurence Cosse
Europa Editions, 08/31/2010
Ivan, a one-time world traveler, and Francesca, a ravishing Italian heiress, are the owners of a bookstore that is anything but ordinary. Rebelling ...
more
Bitter in the Mouth: A Novel
by
Monique Truong
Random House, 08/31/2010
Growing up in the small town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the 70's and 80's, Linda believes that she is profoundly different from everyone ...
more
Body Work: V.I. Warshawski Novel
by
Sara Paretsky
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/31/2010
The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for...
more
Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities
by
Mark C. Taylor
Knopf, 08/31/2010
A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.
In
...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Danse Macabre: A Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #2
by
Gerald Elias
Minotaur Books, 08/31/2010
Daniel Jacobus, reclusive blind concert master and amateur sleuth, returns to solve a most despicable crime and to clear an innocent man.
Just ...
more
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation
by
Seymour Chwast
Bloomsbury USA, 08/31/2010
The "left-handed designer," Seymour Chwast has been putting his unparalleled take—and influence—on the world of illustration and design for ...
more
Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome
by
Steven Saylor
St. Martin's Press, 08/31/2010
Continuing the saga begun in his
New York Times bestselling novel
Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior
by
Laura Kipnis
Metropolitan Books, 08/31/2010
We all relish a good scandal - the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars) - the better. But why
do ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lost Empire: A Fargo Adventure
by
Clive Cussler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/31/2010
While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them ...
more
Literary Fiction
Maybe This Time
by
Jennifer Crusie
St. Martin's Press, 08/31/2010
Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband,...
more
Nemesis: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel
by
Lindsey Davis
Minotaur Books, 08/31/2010
In the high summer of A.D. 77, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his...
more
Rat Girl: A Memoir
by
Kristin Hersh
Penguin Books, 08/31/2010
By the age of seventeen she was living in her car, unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head - the songs for which she...
more
Biography/Memoir
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
by
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Graywolf Press, 08/31/2010
The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning
The Maverick Room
Naturally, this will ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Brutal Telling: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #5
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 08/31/2010
Chaos is coming, old son.
With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier’s Bistro - including a stranger...
more
Mysteries
The Devil: A Jack Taylor Novel
by
Ken Bruen
Minotaur Books, 08/31/2010
America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry. Disappointed ...
more
Thrillers
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
by
Edmund de Waal
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/31/2010
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna ...
more
The Holy Thief: A Novel
by
William Ryan
Minotaur Books, 08/31/2010
Moscow, 1936, and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Mourning Wars
by
Karen Steinmetz
Roaring Brook Press, 08/31/2010
Based on true events,
The Mourning Wars is a gripping, powerful, and utterly memorable historical novel. In 1704, Mohawk Indians attacked the frontier...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Pleasure Seekers: A Novel
by
Tishani Doshi
Bloomsbury USA, 08/31/2010
Paperback Original: When Babo Patel met Siân Jones in London, it was instant love: a full-body burning not fully accounted for by the peppermint ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Romantics
by
Galt Niederhoffer
Picador, 08/31/2010
Paperback. Laura and Lila were college roommates--one brooding and Jewish, the other the epitome of golden WASP-dom. Now it's ten years later, a day ...
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The Violin of Auschwitz: A Novel
by
Maria Àngels Anglada
Bantam Books, 08/31/2010
An international sensation now available in English for the first time,
The Violin of Auschwitz is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to ...
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Literary Fiction
Time Riders
by
Alex Scarrow
Walker Childrens, 08/31/2010
Maddy, Liam, and Sal quickly learn that time travel is no longer just a hope for the future; it is a dangerous reality. And they weren't just rescued ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Willful Behavior: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by
Donna Leon
Penguin Books, 08/31/2010
Paperback Original. Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's ...
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Mysteries
An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 09/01/2010
World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in
A Duty to the Dead, returns in an exciting new mystery in which a murder draws her inexorably into the ...
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Break the Glass
by
Jean Valentine
Copper Canyon Press, 09/01/2010
In her eleventh collection, National Book Award–winning poet Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Come on All You Ghosts
by
Matthew Zapruder
Copper Canyon Press, 09/01/2010
Matthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Encounter
by
Milan Kundera
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/01/2010
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same ...
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Fever of the Bone: A Novel
by
Val McDermid
HarperPaperbacks, 09/01/2010
Paperback Original. "You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not...
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Hothouse
by
Chris Lynch
HarperTeen, 09/01/2010
If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke.
In the beginning it was ...
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I'd Know You Anywhere
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 09/01/2010
If Washington, D.C. housewife Eliza Benedict sometimes seems preoccupied, it's easy to imagine why: As a teenager a quarter century ago, she was ...
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Paranormalcy
by
Kiersten White
HarperTeen, 09/01/2010
Evie's always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Quiet As They Come
by
Angie Chau
Ig Publishing, 09/01/2010
Paperback Original.
Quiet As They Come is a beautiful and at times brutal portrait of a people caught between two cultures. Set in San Francisco from ...
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Short Stories
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
by
Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
University of Nebraska Press, 09/01/2010
Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award, Best Crime Fact category
The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football season ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
by
Hal Herzog
Harper, 09/01/2010
Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? Who enjoys a better quality of ...
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Other
Sourland: Stories
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 09/01/2010
The sixteen stories of
Sourland beautifully resonate with the author's trademark fascination for the unpredictable in the midst of the 'ordinary' - ...
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The Call: The Magnificent 12, #1
by
Michael Grant
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/01/2010
Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Crowfield Curse
by
Pat Walsh
The Chicken House, 09/01/2010
An angel is buried behind the abbey! It's 1347, and Will, an orphan boy, lives and works as an apprentice of the Crowfield monks. Sent into the forest...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Danger Box
by
Blue Balliett
Scholastic, 09/01/2010
A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.
A mischievous girl who won't stay in one place.
A mysterious notebook .
A fire.
A stranger.
A...
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Mysteries
The White Horse Trick
by
Kate Thompson
Greenwillow Books, 09/01/2010
The world is drowning.
Freak storms and devastating hurricanes sweep across the countryside. No one has enough food or firewood - electricity is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Zombies of Lake Woebegotton: Zombie Uprising
by
Harrison Geillor
Night Shade Books, 09/01/2010
The town of Lake Woebegotton, MN is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vestments
by
John Reimringer
Milkweed Editions, 09/01/2010
Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in its entirety, the obstacle that constantly ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You
by
Charles Benoit
HarperTeen, 09/01/2010
This wasn't the way it was supposed to go.
You're just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Emily Hudson: A Novel
by
Melissa Jones
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/02/2010
After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson - an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever - finds herself the begrudged guest at the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Pirates of the Levant: Captain Alatriste, Book 6
by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/02/2010
This was a time when Spain was revered, feared, and hated in the easterly seas; when the devil had no color, no name, and no flag; and when the only ...
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The Gendarme
by
Mark T. Mustian
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/02/2010
What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost - only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Shadows in the Street: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
by
Susan Hill
Overlook, 09/02/2010
Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series has established itself as superior crime fare with four gripping psychological thrillers already in print.
...
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Mysteries
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
by
Mary Downing Hahn
Houghton Mifflin, 09/06/2010
When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Curable Romantic: A Novel
by
Joseph Skibell
Algonquin Books, 09/07/2010
As far as romance goes, Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn is fairly incurable. Twice married, once divorced, once widowed—all by the tender age of twelve—...
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A Geography of Secrets
by
Frederick Reuss
Unbridled Books, 09/07/2010
Two men: One discovers the cost of keeping secrets, of building a career within a government agency where secrets are the operational basis. Noel ...
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Literary Fiction
Absolute Risk
by
Steven Gore
Poisoned Pen Press, 09/07/2010
An FBI Agent, disgraced and dead. A Muslim economist, deported from the US and tortured. The world’s largest hedge fund, secreted off-shore. A ...
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Thrillers
Ape House: A Novel
by
Sara Gruen
Spiegel & Grau, 09/07/2010
Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on ...
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
by
Liz Murray
Hyperion, 09/07/2010
In the vein of
The Glass Castle,
Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
C
by
Tom McCarthy
Knopf, 09/07/2010
The acclaimed author of
Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years,' gives us his most ...
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Come Again No More: The Paint Trilogy, #2
by
Jack Todd
Touchstone, 09/07/2010
The Paint Family built an American empire on the legendary strength of their character, their wit, and their resolve, but the foreclosures, bank ...
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Historical Fiction
Dexter Is Delicious
by
Jeff Lindsay
Doubleday, 09/07/2010
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadfast rule ...
he only kills very...more
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
by
Scott Eyman
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 09/07/2010
Best known as the director of such spectacular films as
The Ten Commandments and
King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
Healer: A Novel
by
Carol Cassella
Simon & Schuster, 09/07/2010
From national bestselling author Carol Cassella comes the story of one doctor's struggle to hold her family together through a storm of broken trust ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss
by
Marianne Leone
Simon & Schuster, 09/07/2010
Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan
by
Derek Leebaert
Simon & Schuster, 09/07/2010
Afghanistan and Iraq are the latest in a string of blunders that includes Vietnam and an unintended war with China from 1950 to '53, those four ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Portobello: A Novel
by
Ruth Rendell
Scribner, 09/07/2010
Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction's reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in
Portobello, ...
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The Grand Design
by
Stephen Hawking
Bantam Spectra, 09/07/2010
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
by
James Ellroy
Knopf, 09/07/2010
The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel
by
Cristina Garcia
Scribner, 09/07/2010
National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious ...
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The Mullah's Storm
by
Thomas W. Young
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/07/2010
An extraordinary debut novel about courage and survival in Afghanistan, written as only a man who has “been there and done that” could tell ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by
Isabel Wilkerson
Random House, 09/07/2010
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Widower's Tale: A Novel
by
Julia Glass
Pantheon Books, 09/07/2010
In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and ...
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The Wishing Trees
by
John Shors
NAL, 09/07/2010
Almost a year after the death of his wife, Kate, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate's final ...
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There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
by
Philip Dray
Doubleday, 09/07/2010
From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vermilion Drift: A Cork O'Connor Novel
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 09/07/2010
Some nights, Corcoran O'Connor dreams his father's death.
William Kent Krueger's gripping tale of suspense begins with a recurring nightmare, a gun...
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Vida
by
Patricia Engel
Grove Press, 09/07/2010
Paperback Original. Fresh, accomplished, and fearless,
Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immense talent and promise.
Vida ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Zero History: A Novel
by
William Gibson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/07/2010
Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she's broke, and ...
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The Elephant's Journey
by
Jose Saramago
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/08/2010
In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Legend of the King
by
Gerald Morris
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 09/13/2010
In this final installment of the Squire's Tale series, Terence and his fellow Knights of the Round Table must come together in a last stand to save ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Life Like Other People's
by
Alan Bennett
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/14/2010
In this poignant memoir of his parents' marriage, Alan Bennett recalls the lost world of his childhood and the lives, loves, and deaths of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
And Thereby Hangs a Tale
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 09/14/2010
International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has spent the last five years gathering spellbinding stories from around the globe. These ...
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Short Stories
Antiphon: The Psalms of Isaak Book 3
by
Ken Scholes
Tor Books, 09/14/2010
Nothing is as it seems to be.
The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime
by
Leif GW Persson
Pantheon Books, 09/14/2010
The first novel in a trilogy that has become the defining account of the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme - an event ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
by
Rebecca Traister
Free Press, 09/14/2010
Rebecca Traister, whose coverage of the 2008 presidential election for
Salon confirmed her to be a gifted cultural observer, offers a startling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bleed a River Deep: An Inspector Devlin Mystery, #3
by
Brian McGilloway
Minotaur Books, 09/14/2010
When a controversial US diplomat is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is disciplined for the lapse ...
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Blue Nude: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Rosner
Gallery Books, 09/14/2010
Paperback Original. Once a prominent painter, Danzig now shares his wisdom and technique with students at San Francisco's Art Institute—yet his ...
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
by
Thea Cooper & Arthur Ainsberg
St. Martin's Press, 09/14/2010
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crystal Death: A Conor Bard Mystery
by
Charles Kipps
Scribner, 09/14/2010
Conor Bard - the fortysomething homicide detective who doesn't always play by the rules - is working on the streets of New York City's Diamond ...
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Hush
by
Eishes Chayil
Walker & Company, 09/14/2010
Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written ...
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Hypothermia: A Reykjavik Thriller
by
Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 09/14/2010
Inspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a s&...
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Low Red Moon
by
Ivy Devlin
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 09/14/2010
The only thing Avery Hood can remember about the night her parents died is that she saw silver - deadly silver, moving inhumanly fast. As much as she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Man in the Woods
by
Scott Spencer
Ecco, 09/14/2010
Paul has been on his own since he was a teenager. He has hunted for food in Alaska, fought forest fires, been deputized in a manhunt for a kidnapper ...
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Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
by
Alan Silberberg
Aladdin, 09/14/2010
Milo is the funny and poignant story, told through text and cartoons, of a 13-year-old boy’s struggle to come to terms with the loss that hit the...
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Nashville Chrome
by
Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/14/2010
Late in 1959, the Brown siblings - Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed - were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime ...
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Literary Fiction
Reckless
by
Cornelia Funke
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/14/2010
For years, Jacob Reckless has been escaping to another world - a world behind the mirror, where witches haunt the forests and fairies and dwarfs roam....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Safe Haven
by
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 09/14/2010
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. ...
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Romance
The Bells: A Novel
by
Richard Harvell
Crown Journeys, 09/14/2010
I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, ...more
The Montmartre Investigation: A Victor Legris Mystery, #3
by
Claude Izner
Minotaur Books, 09/14/2010
Paris, November 1891: The body of a barefoot young woman dressed in red is discovered on Boulevard Montmartre. She has been strangled and her face ...
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Mysteries
The Ruby Notebook
by
Laura Resau
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 09/14/2010
Sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her flighty English-teaching mom, Layla, have traveled the world together, settling in a different country every year, ...
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Romance
The Things a Brother Knows
by
Dana Reinhardt
Wendy Lamb Books, 09/14/2010
Finally, Levi Katznelson’s older brother, Boaz, has returned. Boaz was a high school star who had it all and gave it up to serve in a war Levi ...
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The Vaults
by
Toby Ball
St. Martin's Press, 09/14/2010
In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city's darkest secret.
At the...
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Mysteries
Debut Author
Wicked Appetite
by
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press, 09/14/2010
Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing ...
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Thrillers
Flygirl
by
Sherri L. Smith
Penguin Books, 09/16/2010
But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP-...
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Historical Fiction
Salvation City
by
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books, 09/16/2010
After a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of people worldwide, the United States has grown increasingly anarchic. Large numbers of children are ...
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A Nose for Justice: A Novel
by
Rita Mae Brown
Ballantine Books, 09/21/2010
Explosive sabotage and the startling unearthing of a hundred-year-old skeleton on a Nevada ranch thrillingly start off this debut novel in a tail-...
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Mysteries
Dead Beautiful
by
Yvonne Woon
Hyperion Books for Children, 09/21/2010
After Renee Winters discovers her parents lying dead in California's Redwood Forest in what appears to be a strange double murder, her grandfather ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Dogfight, A Love Story
by
Matt Burgess
Doubleday, 09/21/2010
Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ada Poems
by
Cynthia Zarin
Knopf, 09/21/2010
A dazzling story of obsessive love emerges in Cynthia Zarin's luminous new book inspired and inhabited by the title character of Nabokov’s novel ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
by
Michele Norris
Pantheon Books, 09/21/2010
In the wake of talk of a "postracial" America upon Barack Obama's ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National ...
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The Search for WondLa
by
Tony DiTerlizzi
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/21/2010
When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee ...
more
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
by
Jeff Sharlet
Little Brown & Company, 09/27/2010
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet - Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Genius Wars
by
Catherine Jinks
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 09/27/2010
In a thrilling conclusion to the Genius trilogy, Cadel must think like a criminal mastermind.
After abandoning a life of lies and mistrust, fifteen...
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A Renegade History of the United States
by
Thaddeus Russell
Free Press, 09/28/2010
In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Adam & Eve: A Novel
by
Sena Jeter Naslund
William Morrow, 09/28/2010
The New York Times bestselling author of
Ahab's Wife,
Four Spirits, and
Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a ...
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Bound: A Novel
by
Antonya Nelson
Bloomsbury USA, 09/28/2010
Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Her ...
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Bryant & May off the Rails: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
by
Christopher Fowler
Bantam Books, 09/28/2010
Christopher Fowler’s Peculiar Crimes Unit novels have been hailed for their originality, suspense, and unforgettable characters. Now Arthur ...
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By Nightfall: A Novel
by
Michael Cunningham
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/28/2010
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts - he a dealer, she an ...
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Chalcot Crescent
by
Fay Weldon
Europa Editions, 09/28/2010
Paperback Original. Its 2013 and 80-year-old Frances is sitting on the stairs of number three Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, listening to the debt ...
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Dreadnought: Clockwork Century, #2
by
Cherie Priest
Tor Books, 09/28/2010
Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy’s ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Handling the Undead
by
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Thomas Dunne Books, 09/28/2010
In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel,
Let the Right One In, did for vampires.
Across Stockholm the ...
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Madison and Jefferson
by
Andrew Burstein
Random House, 09/28/2010
In
Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of two extraordinary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
by
Frank Dikotter
Walker & Company, 09/28/2010
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monsters of Men: Chaos Walking: Book Three
by
Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press, 09/28/2010
As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On the Blue Comet
by
Rosemary Wells & Bagram Ibatoulline
Candlewick Press, 09/28/2010
One day in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, on the Mississippi River side of Cairo, Illinois, eleven-year-old Oscar Ogilvie’s life is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Out of the Dark
by
David Weber
Tom Doherty Associates, 09/28/2010
The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Red Herring: A Joe Gunther Novel
by
Archer Mayor
Minotaur Books, 09/28/2010
VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) head Joe Gunther and his team are called in to investigate a series of violent deaths that appear unrelated ...
more
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
by
David Sedaris
Little Brown & Company, 09/28/2010
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the ...
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Stranger Here Below
by
Joyce Hinnefeld
Unbridled Books, 09/28/2010
In 1961, when Amazing Grace Jansen, a firecracker from Appalachia, meets Mary Elizabeth Cox, the daughter of a Black southern preacher, at Kentucky...
more
The 10 PM Question
by
Kate De Goldi
Candlewick Press, 09/28/2010
Worry-prone Frankie keeps his family secret under control — until a bold, inquisitive girl enters his life - in this warm, witty, and captivating...
more
The Shadow Woman: A Chief Inspector Erik Winter Novel
by
Ake Edwardson
Penguin Books, 09/28/2010
It's August and the annual Gothenburg Party is in full swing. But this year the bacchanalian blowout is simmering with ethnic discord spurred by ...
more
The Wilding: A Novel
by
Benjamin Percy
Graywolf Press, 09/28/2010
Echo Canyon is a disappearing pocket of wilderness outside of Bend, Oregon, and the site of conflicting memories for Justin Caves and his father, Paul...
more
The Winds of Heaven
by
Judith Clarke
Henry Holt and Company, 09/28/2010
Clementine thinks her cousin Fan is everything that she could never be: beautiful, imaginative, wild. The girls promise to be best friends and sisters...
more
To Fetch a Thief: A Chet and Bernie Mystery
by
Spencer Quinn
Atria Books, 09/28/2010
Following
Dog On It and
Thereby Hangs a Tail,
To Fetch a Thief is the third Chet and Bernie mystery featuring an irresistible canine narrator.&#...
more
Unholy Awakening: Hanno Stiffeniis #4
by
Michael Gregorio
Minotaur Books, 09/28/2010
A woman’s body has been found at the bottom of a well. The death wounds are startling: two small, round punctures to the jugular ...
more
Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai
by
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press, 09/28/2010
Published originally in the pages of
Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France
(...more
Your Republic Is Calling You
by
Young-ha Kim
Mariner Books, 09/28/2010
Paperback Original. A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is ...
more
Blackstone and the Wolf of Wall Street: Inspector Sam Blackstone Mysteries
by
Sally Spencer
Severn House, 10/01/2010
The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery set in August, 1900. William Holt, a reclusive millionaire businessman, has been kidnapped from his grand ...
more
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
by
James L. Swanson
William Morrow, 10/01/2010
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time&...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Collusion: A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
by
Stuart Neville
Soho Press, 10/01/2010
When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover Marie McKenna and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. But ...
more
Djibouti: A Novel
by
Elmore Leonard
William Morrow, 10/01/2010
Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered the rape of Bosnian women, neo-Nazi white supremacists, and post-...
more
Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish
by
James Prosek
Harper Perennial, 10/01/2010
They are the only fish that spawn in the middle of the ocean but spend their adult lives in freshwater. They can overcome seemingly insurmountable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ghost in Trouble: A Mystery
by
Carolyn Hart
William Morrow, 10/01/2010
When Bailey Ruth Raeburn passed over into the great beyond, she was delighted to discover her sleuthing days would last an eternity. Joining Heaven's ...
more
Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike
by
Charlotte Gray
Counterpoint Press, 10/01/2010
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Shall Wear Midnight
by
Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/01/2010
It starts with whispers.
Then someone picks up a stone.
Finally, the fires begin.
When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . .
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Clockwork Three
by
Matthew J. Kirby
Scholastic, 10/01/2010
Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events ...
Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Cloud Corporation
by
Timothy Donnelly
Wave Books, 10/01/2010
Timothy Donnelly's long-awaited second collection is a tour de force, fully invested with an abiding faith in language to illuminate the advances of ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
by
Bernard Cornwell
Harper, 10/01/2010
While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry...
more
Historical Fiction
Up from the Blue: A Novel
by
Susan Henderson
HarperPaperbacks, 10/01/2010
Paperback Original. Tillie Harris's life is in disarray - her husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren't unpacked, and the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Annexed
by
Sharon Dogar
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 10/04/2010
Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex - but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her?
In this ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by
Eric Foner
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2010
In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Lily of the Field
by
John Lawton
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/05/2010
Vienna 1934. Ten-year-old Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of esteemed musician professor Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. Three years later, ...
more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by
Bill Bryson
Doubleday, 10/05/2010
"Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up."
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Behemoth (Leviathan)
by
Scott Westerfeld
Simon Pulse, 10/05/2010
The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Berlin at War
by
Roger Moorhouse
Basic Books, 10/05/2010
Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler’s empire, the embodiment of his vision of a "world ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
by
Tom Franklin
William Morrow, 10/05/2010
In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author ...
more
Exley
by
Brock Clarke
Algonquin Books, 10/05/2010
For nine-year-old Miller, who lives with his mother in Watertown, New York, life has become a struggle to make sense of his father’s ...
more
Keeping Time: A Novel
by
Stacey McGlynn
Crown, 10/05/2010
Daisy Phillips is tired of being treated like an old lady. Sure, there was that incident with the lawn mower and the mud. And she did get trapped at ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nemesis
by
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/05/2010
In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis,...
more
Odd Is on Our Side
by
Dean Koontz
Delta, 10/05/2010
Paperback Original, Graphic Novel. It’s Halloween in Pico Mundo, California, and there’s a whiff of something wicked in the autumn air. ...
more
Graphic Novels
Painted Ladies: A Spenser Mystery
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/05/2010
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom ...
more
Promise Me
by
Richard Paul Evans
Simon & Schuster, 10/05/2010
"As you read my story, there is something I want you to understand. That in spite of all the pain - past, present and that still to come - I wouldn&#...
more
Literary Fiction
The False Friend
by
Myla Goldberg
Doubleday, 10/05/2010
From the bestselling author of
Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two eleven-year-old girls, best ...
more
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
by
Padgett Powell
Ecco, 10/05/2010
A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker's
The Mezzanine or David Foster ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by
Douglas Starr
Knopf, 10/05/2010
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher,...
more
The Reversal
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 10/05/2010
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years...
more
The Rhetoric of Death
by
Judith Rock
Berkley Books, 10/05/2010
Paris, 1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Unexpectedly Eighty: And Other Adaptations
by
Judith Viorst
Free Press, 10/05/2010
What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses marriage, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Washington: A Life
by
Ron Chernow
Penguin Press, 10/05/2010
In
Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth ...
more
World and Town
by
Gish Jen
Knopf, 10/05/2010
Hattie Kong - the spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American missionary to China - has, in her fiftieth year of living in the ...
more
Master of Disguises
by
Charles Simic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/06/2010
In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
by
Leslie Marmon Silko
Viking, 10/07/2010
Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command ...
more
Conversations with Myself
by
Nelson Mandela
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/11/2010
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to ...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
by
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 10/12/2010
The three decades after the Civil War saw a wholesale shift in American life, and the cause was capitalism. Driven by J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by
Ben Goldacre
Faber and Faber, 10/12/2010
Paperback Original. Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by
Timothy Snyder
Basic Books, 10/12/2010
Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Busy Body: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
by
M. C. Beaton
Minotaur Books, 10/12/2010
Agatha Raisin has always been ambivalent about holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has long prided itself on its Christmas ...
more
Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions
by
Vicki Myron
Dutton, 10/12/2010
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
by
Condoleezza Rice
Crown, 10/12/2010
Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee ...
more
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
by
Larry Levin
Grand Central Publishing, 10/12/2010
In the bestselling tradition of
Rescuing Sprite comes the story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted.
In 2002...
more
Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel
by
John le Carre
Viking, 10/12/2010
Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they splurge on a tennis vacation at a posh beach resort in Antigua. But the charm begins to ...
more
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by
A.S. King
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/12/2010
Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after ...
more
Revolution
by
Jennifer Donnelly
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 10/12/2010
Brooklyn: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by ...
more
Rogue Island: A Liam Mulligan Novel
by
Bruce DeSilva
Forge Books, 10/12/2010
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the ...
more
Selected Poems
by
Amy Clampitt
Knopf, 10/12/2010
When Amy Clampitt's first collection,
The Kingfisher, was published, it was hailed as that rare first book that "signals a major poet in full bloom" (...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Solomon's Oak: A Novel
by
Jo-Ann Mapson
Bloomsbury USA, 10/12/2010
Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever.
Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to ...
more
The Beginner's Guide to Living
by
Lia Hills
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/12/2010
Seven days after his mother dies in a sudden, senseless accident, seventeen-year-old Will embarks on a search for meaning that leads him to the great ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Brave: A Novel
by
Nicholas Evans
Little Brown & Company, 10/12/2010
There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with ...
more
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
by
Alan Taylor
Knopf, 10/12/2010
In this deeply researched and clearly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Finkler Question
by
Howard Jacobson
Bloomsbury USA, 10/12/2010
"He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…"
Julian Treslove, a ...
more
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
by
Jane Smiley
Doubleday, 10/12/2010
One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after...
more
The Pericles Commission
by
Gary Corby
Minotaur Books, 10/12/2010
Nicolaos walks the mean streets of Classical Athens as an agent for the promising young politician Pericles. His mission is to find the assassin of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Prostitutes' Ball: A Shane Scully Novel
by
Stephen J. Cannell
St. Martin's Press, 10/12/2010
Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once-immaculate mansion, the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years prior...
more
Mysteries
The Tenth Song
by
Naomi Ragen
St. Martin's Press, 10/12/2010
When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know…
Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on...
more
Literary Fiction
The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
by
Dr. Dickson Despommier
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/12/2010
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Weekend: A Novel
by
Bernhard Schlink
Pantheon Books, 10/12/2010
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine ...
more
Trash
by
Andy Mulligan
David McKay, 10/12/2010
In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Whirligig
by
Paul Fleischman
Square Fish, 10/12/2010
When he blows his chances with the girl of his dreams in front of everyone, he's devastated. Brent tries to end it all in a fatal car crash, but ...
more
Literary Fiction
Gentleman Captain
by
J. D. Davies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/13/2010
1662: Restoration England. Cromwell is dead, and King Charles II has reclaimed the throne after years of civil war. It is a time of divided ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer
by
Garry Wills
Viking, 10/14/2010
Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, ...
more
Trespass: A Novel
by
Rose Tremain
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/18/2010
An electrifying novel about disputed territory, sibling love, and devastating revenge from the celebrated author of
The Road Home and
Restoration. In...
more
Against All Things Ending: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3
by
Stephen R. Donaldson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/19/2010
Thomas Covenant is alive again, restored to his mortal body by the unimaginable combined force of his own white gold ring, Linden Avery's Staff of Law...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Clear
by
Connie Willis
Bantam Spectra, 10/19/2010
But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Compass Rose
by
John Casey
Knopf, 10/19/2010
It's been more than two decades since
Spartina won the National Book Award and was acclaimed by critics as being "possibly the best American novel ......
more
Forge
by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Atheneum Books, 10/19/2010
In this compelling sequel to
Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by
Sarah Bakewell
Other Press, 10/19/2010
Winner of the 2010 NBCC Biography Award
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such ...
more
In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel
by
Jan Karon
Viking, 10/19/2010
Jan Karon's new series, launched with her
New York Times bestselling
Home to Holly Springs. In this second novel, Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the...
more
Literary Fiction
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
by
Robert D. Kaplan
Random House, 10/19/2010
On the world maps common in America, the Indian Ocean all but disappears. The Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
by
V.S. Naipaul
Knopf, 10/19/2010
Like all of V. S. Naipaul's "travel" books,
The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Templar Salvation
by
Raymond Khoury
Dutton, 10/19/2010
With its iconic title and unmistakable cover, Raymond Khoury's million-copy- selling
The Last Templar remains one of the most memorable thriller ...
more
Worth Dying For: Reacher Novel #15
by
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 10/19/2010
There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska ... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan...
more
Thrillers
X'ed Out
by
Charles Burns
Pantheon Books, 10/19/2010
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole ...
more
The Wake of Forgiveness
by
Bruce Machart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/21/2010
On a moonless Texas night in 1895, an ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of "the only woman he's ever been fond of" when his wife dies during ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Christmas Odyssey: A Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 10/26/2010
In her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the authentic Victorian charm and the nail-biting suspense that have made her Thomas ...
more
Mysteries
An Amish Christmas: A Novel
by
Cynthia Keller
Ballantine Books, 10/26/2010
Meg Hobart has everything: a happy marriage to a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and three wonderful ...
more
Dead Spy Running
by
Jon Stock
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/26/2010
Matching the style of le Carré with the high-energy action of Ludlum,
Dead Spy Running comes racing out of the gate as the first in a fantastic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
First Family: Abigail and John Adams
by
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 10/26/2010
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of
Founding Brothers and
His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in ...
more
God on the Rocks
by
Jane Gardam
Europa Editions, 10/26/2010
During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young ...
more
Hygiene and Assassin
by
Amelie Nothomb
Europa Editions, 10/26/2010
Prétextat Tach, Nobel laureate and one of the world's most renowned contemporary novelists, has only two months to live. He has been living in ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Confession: A Novel
by
John Grisham
Doubleday, 10/26/2010
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the ...
more
Thrillers
The Elephant to Hollywood
by
Michael Caine
Henry Holt and Company, 10/26/2010
Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act.
...
more
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
by
Dyan deNapoli
Free Press, 10/26/2010
On June 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV
Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Killing Storm: A Sarah Armstrong Thriller
by
Kathryn Casey
Minotaur Books, 10/26/2010
On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey plays in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his puppy. While Joey's mom, Crystal...
more
The Last Run: A Queen & Country Novel
by
Greg Rucka
Bantam Books, 10/26/2010
The game of espionage catches up to everyone in the end. Now, in Greg Rucka’s sensational new Queen & Country thriller, the world’s most ...
more
Thrillers
The Marriage Artist: A Novel
by
Andrew Winer
Henry Holt and Company, 10/26/2010
When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is her suspected lover, Benjamin Wind,...
more
The Mind's Eye
by
Oliver Sacks
Knopf, 10/26/2010
From the author of the best-selling
Musicophilia (hailed as “luminous, original, and indispensable” by
The American Scholar), an exploration...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The True Memoirs of Little K: A Novel
by
Adrienne Sharp
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/26/2010
Ninety-nine years old, with a sharp memory for every jewel she owned and every conquest she made, Mathilde Kschessinska, - prima ballerina assoluta of...
more
When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind - Or Destroy It
by
Jonathan Watts
Scribner, 10/26/2010
As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties
by
Catherine Gildiner
Viking, 10/28/2010
The vivid and touching sequel to the bestselling memoir
Too Close to the Falls. It's 1960 and twelve-year-old Cathy McClure has just been thrown out ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Coming Back
by
Marcia Muller
Grand Central Publishing, 10/28/2010
In
Locked In, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone was shot in the head and suffered from locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but with an ...
more
Lester Higata's 20th Century
by
Barbara Hamby
University of Iowa Press, 10/28/2010
"Lester Higata knew his life was about to end when he walked out on the lanai behind his house in Makiki and saw his long-dead father sitting in a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Long Good-Bye
by
Raymond Chandler
Penguin Books, 10/28/2010
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the ...
more
Literary Fiction
You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness
by
Julie Klam
Riverhead Books, 10/28/2010
Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, wondering if she would ever meet the man she could spend ...
more
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by
Simon Winchester
Harper, 11/01/2010
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the
New York Times bestselling author of
Krakatoa tells the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cleopatra: A Life
by
Stacy Schiff
Little Brown & Company, 11/01/2010
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her...
more
Crown of Dust
by
Mary Volmer
Soho Press, 11/01/2010
A gender-bending story of friendship, love, and redemption set in the Wild West during the gold rush.
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Extra Indians
by
Eric Gansworth
Milkweed Editions, 11/01/2010
Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a ...
more
Foreign Bodies: A Novel
by
Cynthia Ozick
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/01/2010
Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's...
more
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
by
Barry Deutsch
Amulet Books, 11/01/2010
Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn't interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from ...
more
Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel
by
Armistead Maupin
Harper, 11/01/2010
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. ...
more
Moonlight Mile
by
Dennis Lehane
William Morrow, 11/01/2010
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston suburb in 1997. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led savvy, ...
more
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
by
Bill Bryson (editor)
William Morrow, 11/01/2010
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with original contributions from "a glittering array of scientific writing talent" (
Sunday Observer) including ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Forever Queen: Sometimes, a desperate kingdom is in need of one great woman
by
Helen Hollick
Sourcebooks, 11/01/2010
Married to a king incompetent both on the throne and in bed, Emma does not love her husband. But she does love England. Even as her husband fails, ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Masuda Affair
by
I. J. Parker
Severn House, 11/01/2010
A Sugawara Akitada Mystery of Ancient Japan - Eleventh-century Japan. Government official Sugawara Akitada finds a small mute boy on a deserted road. ...
more
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth
by
Richard Conniff
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2010
The story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth. Beginning with Linnaeus, a ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
by
Brian Switek
Bellevue Literary Press, 11/01/2010
Spectacular fossil finds make today's headlines; new technology unlocks secrets of skeletons unearthed a hundred years ago. Still, evolution is often ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Short Stories
Edge: A Novel
by
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 11/02/2010
Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's new independent thriller features his signature ticking-clock suspense, sharp plot twists and whip-smart...
more
Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts
by
Mark Kurlansky
Riverhead Books, 11/02/2010
Paperback Original. In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story--The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
by
Patrick K. O'Donnell
Tyndale House Publishers, 11/02/2010
"What would you want if you could have any wish?" asked the photojournalist of the haggard, bloodied Marine before him. The Marine gaped at his ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hand Me Down World
by
Lloyd Jones
Knopf, 11/02/2010
A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old and stolen away to Berlin....
more
Literary Fiction
Heartbroke Bay
by
Lynn D'urso
Berkley Books, 11/02/2010
Paperback Original. In 1898, Alaska is an untamed wilderness with an unforgiving climate. At the tail end of a world-wide depression, thousands of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Heliopolis
by
James Scudamore
Europa Editions, 11/02/2010
Born in a Sao Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation. Directed by forces beyond his control, he first leaves, then returns to ...
more
Indulgence in Death
by
J.D. Robb
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/02/2010
An indulgence for readers: the new Eve Dallas novel from the #1
New York Times-bestselling author.
First it was a limo driver shot through the neck ...
more
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
by
Antonia Fraser
Nan A. Talese, 11/02/2010
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist Harold Pinter. In essence, it is a ...
more
My Reading Life
by
Pat Conroy
Nan A. Talese, 11/02/2010
Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a voracious reader. He has for years kept a notebook in which he notes words or phrases, ...
more
Pegasus
by
Robin McKinley
Putnam Juvenile, 11/02/2010
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pagasi, Princess Sylviianel is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own Pegasus, on her twelfth ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by
Tim Wu
Knopf, 11/02/2010
A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century's great information empires - Hollywood, the broadcast ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Mockingbirds
by
Daisy Whitney
Little Brown & Company, 11/02/2010
Some schools have honor codes.
Others have handbooks.
Themis Academy has the Mockingbirds.
Themis Academy is a quiet boarding school with an exceptional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
by
Jay Parini
Doubleday, 11/02/2010
As
The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ring of Solomon: Bartimaeus Series #4
by
Jonathan Stroud
Hyperion Books for Children, 11/02/2010
Bartimaeus, everyone’s favorite (wise-cracking) djinni, is back in book four of this best-selling series. As alluded to in the footnotes ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Venice: Pure City
by
Peter Ackroyd
Nan A. Talese, 11/02/2010
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial—a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city.
The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Virals
by
Kathy Reichs
Razorbill, 11/02/2010
Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the
Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of ...
more
What a Difference a Dog Makes: Big Lessons on Life, Love and Healing from a Small Pooch
by
Dana Jennings
Doubleday, 11/02/2010
Our dogs come into our lives as "just the family pet," but before we know it they become drinking buddies and fuzzy shrinks, playmates and Cheerios-...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Broken Kingdoms: The Inheritance Trilogy
by
N.K. Jemisin
Orbit, 11/03/2010
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True Grit: A Novel
by
Charles Portis
The Overlook Press, 11/05/2010
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark ...
more
Literary Fiction
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
by
Noah Feldman
Twelve Books, 11/08/2010
A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Dead Man's Tale: A Charlie Moon Mystery
by
James D. Doss
Minotaur Books, 11/09/2010
Charlie Moon, Ute rancher and investigator, isn't afraid to throw the dice even when a man's life is at stake, but when that man is betting against ...
more
A Time of Miracles
by
Anne-Laure Bondoux
Delacorte Press, 11/09/2010
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking ...
more
As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
by
Karl Gerth
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/09/2010
In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood and Fire: A Mystery
by
Nick Brownlee
Minotaur Books, 11/09/2010
Just when Inspector Daniel Jouma thought it was calm in Mombasa, all hell breaks loose. Bodies pile up in the morgue, his new boss wants answers ... ...
more
Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire
by
Annelise Freisenbruch
Free Press, 11/09/2010
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life
by
Richard Cohen
Random House, 11/09/2010
In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Crazy: A Novel
by
William Peter Blatty
Forge Books, 11/09/2010
Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery ... and miracles.
New ...
more
Daniel: A Novel
by
Henning Mankell
New Press, 11/09/2010
In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Småland, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before ...
more
Full Dark, No Stars
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 11/09/2010
"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger ..." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that ...
more
Hell's Corner
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 11/09/2010
John Carr, aka Oliver Stone - once the most skilled assassin his country ever had - stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for...
more
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
by
Nora Ephron
Knopf, 11/09/2010
Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of
I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the...
more
I Still Dream About You: A Novel
by
Fannie Flagg
Random House, 11/09/2010
The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in
I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of ...
more
Mr. Toppit
by
Charles Elton
Other Press, 11/09/2010
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe
by
Martin Bojowald
Knopf, 11/09/2010
In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old post-doc at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Distant Hours
by
Kate Morton
Atria Books, 11/09/2010
A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the ...
more
The Insane Train: A Hook Runyon Mystery
by
Sheldon Russell
Minotaur Books, 11/09/2010
After a devastating fire at an insane asylum in California, Hook Runyon has been put in charge of security for a train that is to transport the ...
more
The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
by
Gunter Grass
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/10/2010
“Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters—four, five, six, eight in number&...
more
Around the World in 100 Days
by
Gary Blackwood
Dutton, 11/11/2010
Picking up where
Around the World in Eighty Days left off, Harry Fogg, the son of Phileas Fogg, has just made a wager of his own. Harry bets that he ...
more
Historical Fiction
Factotum: The Foundling's Tale, Part Three
by
D.M. Cornish
Putnam Juvenile, 11/11/2010
Rossamond Bookchild stands accused of not truly being a human at all, but of being a monster. Even the protection of Europe, the Branden Rose - the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Identity Man
by
Andrew Klavan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/11/2010
John Shannon is a petty thief on the run. A three-time loser framed for a murder he didn’t commit, he knows the cops are closing in on him and ...
more
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
by
Walter Mosley
Riverhead Books, 11/11/2010
Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself - as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His...
more
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
by
Linda Sue Park
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/15/2010
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
by
Mark Twain
University of California Press, 11/15/2010
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have ...
more
Corrag: A Novel
by
Susan Fletcher
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/15/2010
February 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan's hospitality. Many more die ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lord of Misrule
by
Jaimy Gordon
Vintage, 11/15/2010
2010 National Book Award for Fiction
First published in hardcover November 2010.
Published in paperback and ebook March 2011
A brilliant ...
more
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded
by
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Editors)
Tachyon Publications, 11/15/2010
Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, the popular Steampunk genre spotlighted in this collection is ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book
by
Kersten Hamilton
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/15/2010
Teagan Wylltson's best friend, Abby, dreams that horrifying creatures - goblins, shape-shifters, and beings of unearthly beauty but terrible cruelty -...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Utopia
by
Ahmed Khaled Towfik
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/15/2010
The decadent rich live in secured compounds while the poor are trapped outside in a dog-eat-dog world. In this setting, a young man and a young girl ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blank Confession
by
Pete Hautman
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 11/16/2010
Shayne Blank is the new kid in town--but that doesn't stop him from getting into a lot of trouble very quickly. The other kids don't understand him. ...
more
Crescent Dawn: A Dirk Pitt Adventure
by
Clive Cussler
Penguin Books, 11/16/2010
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the ...
more
Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel
by
Salman Rushdie
Random House, 11/16/2010
With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time,
Luka and the Fire of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Neighbors Are Watching
by
Debra Ginsberg
Crown, 11/16/2010
Set against the backdrop of the deadly 2007 wildfires that forced the evacuation of half a million San Diego residents, Debra Ginsberg's new novel,
...more
An Object of Beauty: A Novel
by
Steve Martin
Grand Central Publishing, 11/23/2010
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the ...
more
Colonel Roosevelt
by
Edmund Morris
Random House, 11/23/2010
Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain "...
more
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
by
Linda Porter
St. Martin's Press, 11/23/2010
The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the ...
more
Pathfinder
by
Orson Scott Card
Simon Pulse, 11/23/2010
A powerful secret. A dangerous path.
Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Emperor's Tomb: A Novel
by
Steve Berry
Ballantine Books, 11/23/2010
The tomb of China's First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it's ...
more
The Human Blend: The Tipping Point Series, Volume 1
by
Alan Dean Foster
Del Rey, 11/23/2010
Alan Dean Foster's brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
by
Mark Logue
Sterling Publishing, 11/26/2010
The true story behind the award-winning movie of the same name,
The King's Speech is written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Vodka On My Wheaties
by
Ann Lloyd
Biographical Publishing Company, 11/26/2010
Vodka On My Wheaties is like no other book you have ever read. The events that have happened to Ann Lloyd are only seen on the silver screen, but all ...
more
Matched
by
Ally Condie
Dutton Children's Books, 11/30/2010
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Of Love and Evil
by
Anne Rice
Knopf, 11/30/2010
"I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here ...more
Port Mortuary: A Scarpetta Novel
by
Patricia Cornwell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/30/2010
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous ...
more
Thrillers
Rescue: A Novel
by
Anita Shreve
Little Brown & Company, 11/30/2010
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila ...
more
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto
by
Joan Reardon (editor)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12/01/2010
With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we
...more
City of Dreadful Night: Brighton Trilogy
by
Peter Guttridge
Severn House, 12/01/2010
First gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy - July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's left luggage ...
more
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
by
Michael Korda
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/01/2010
The acclaimed author of the
New York Times bestseller
Ike returns with a definitive new biography of the legendary British scholar, adventurer, ...
more
The Final Reckoning: A Novel
by
Sam Bourne
Harper, 12/01/2010
Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer in New York. Now he'll work for anyone - as long as the money's right.So ...
more
The Sherlockian: A Novel
by
Graham Moore
Twelve Books, 12/01/2010
In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth
by
Louis Auchincloss
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12/02/2010
At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss - enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh - had just finished taking on a subject he had ...
more
Sea Change: A Novel
by
Jeremy Page
Viking, 12/02/2010
After experiencing a devastating tragedy, Guy sets out to sea in an old Dutch barge that has now become his home. Every night, he writes the imagined ...
more
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
by
Greg Delanty & Michael Matto (Editors)
W.W. Norton & Company, 12/06/2010
Encompassing a wide range of voices - from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Dead or Alive
by
Tom Clancy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/07/2010
For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten ...
more
Thrillers
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
by
Stephen R. Bown
Thomas Dunne Books, 12/07/2010
An engaging blend of biography and economic/colonial history,
Merchant Kings tells the story of the trading companies that monopolized vast ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
by
Susan Fraser King
Crown, 12/07/2010
Refugee. Queen. Saint. In eleventh-century Scotland, a young woman strives to fulfill her destiny despite the risks ...
Shipwrecked on the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Hangman's Daughter
by
Oliver Potzsch
Amazon, 12/07/2010
Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Under Fishbone Clouds
by
Sam Meekings
Thomas Dunne Books, 12/07/2010
Under Fishbone Clouds is a universal love story, a family saga, and a journey through Chinese history, myth, and culture. Following a young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Old Border Road
by
Susan Froderberg
Little Brown & Company, 12/09/2010
Katherine is 17, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy with his new family. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
by
Karen Abbott
Random House, 12/28/2010
America in the Roaring Twenties. Vaudeville was king. Talking pictures were only a distant flicker. Speakeasies beckoned beyond dimly lit doorways; ...
more
Dead Zero: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel
by
Stephen Hunter
Simon & Schuster, 12/28/2010
From
New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech ...
more
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
by
Paul A. Offit M.D.
Basic Books, 12/28/2010
There's a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Khan: Empire of Silver: A Novel of the Khan Empire
by
Conn Iggulden
Delacorte Press, 12/28/2010
The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone
by
Richard Settersten
Bantam Books, 12/28/2010
Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Advice
Debut Author
Sapphique
by
Catherine Fisher
The Dial Press, 12/28/2010
Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Secrets to the Grave
by
Tami Hoag
Dutton, 12/28/2010
Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her.
When Marissa is found brutally ...
more
Tales from the Yoga Studio: A Novel (Edendale Yoga)
by
Rain Mitchell
Plume, 12/28/2010
A sparkling new series introducing five unforgettable women who flock to yoga at turning points in their lives and find the gift of lasting friendship...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
by
Glynis Ridley
Crown, 12/28/2010
The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Metropolis Case: A Novel
by
Matthew Gallaway
Crown, 12/28/2010
From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Radleys: A Novel
by
Matt Haig
Free Press, 12/28/2010
Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely ...
more
The Year of the Hare
by
Arto Paasilinna
Penguin Books, 12/28/2010
Suddenly realizing what's important in life (with the help of a bunny), a man quits his job and heads to the countryside in this internationally ...
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Advice
What the Night Knows: A Novel
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Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 12/28/2010
In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he ...
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Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend
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John Woestendiek
Avery, 12/30/2010
It all began with a pit bull named Booger. Former Miss Wyoming Bernann McKinney was so distraught over the death of her dog, whom she regarded as her ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Zone
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Mathias Enard
Open Letter, 12/31/2010
Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from ...
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