Between Two Seas
by
Carmine Abate
Europa Editions, 01/01/2008
Paperback Original. The US debut of one of Italy's great contemporary storytellers: The photographer Hans Heumann travels to southern Italy in search ...
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Bleeding Kansas
by
Sara Paretsky
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/01/2008
Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up,
Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories ...
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Blood of the Wicked
by
Leighton Gage
Soho Press, 01/01/2008
In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the bishop arrives by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Crow Country: A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature
by
Mark Cocker
Vintage, 01/01/2008
From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace birds were ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Advice
Yalo
by
Elias Khoury
Archipelago Books, 01/01/2008
Elias Khoury's most recent novel propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last page. We follow the path...
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Literary Fiction
Airman
by
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion, 01/02/2008
Airman is set in the 1890's on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. It is the story of Conor Broekhart, a young Saltee Islander whose ...
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Advice
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by
Eric Weiner
Twelve Books, 01/03/2008
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide,
The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India...
more
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
by
Seth Shulman
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/07/2008
While researching Alexander Graham Bell at MIT's Dibner Institute, Seth Shulman scrutinized Bell's journals and within them he found the smoking gun, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Father's Law
by
Richard Wright
Harper Perennial, 01/08/2008
Paperback original. Never before published, the final work of one of America's greatest writers.
A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, ...
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Literary Fiction
Blasphemy
by
Douglas Preston
St. Martin's Press, 01/08/2008
The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself....
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Thrillers
Blue Heaven
by
C.J. Box
Minotaur Books, 01/08/2008
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of northern Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder&...
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Eleven: A Mystery
by
Patricia Reilly Giff
Wendy Lamb Books, 01/08/2008
Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack’s room, and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. ...
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Homecoming: A Novel
by
Bernhard Schlink
Knopf, 01/08/2008
A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a ...
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Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
by
Dana Milbank
Doubleday, 01/08/2008
Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
by
Madeleine Albright
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/08/2008
After eight years of mismanagement and miscalculation under George W. Bush, the office of the American president will be at an all–time low. The ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Plum Lucky: A Stephanie Plum Novel
by
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press, 01/08/2008
Stephanie Plum is back between-the-numbers and she’s looking to get lucky in an Atlantic City hotel room, in a Winnebago, and with a brown-eyed ...
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Mysteries
Renegade's Magic: Book Three of The Soldier Son Trilogy
by
Robin Hobb
Eos, 01/08/2008
Loyal, privileged, and brave, Nevare Burvelle proudly embraced his preordained role as soldier in the service of the King of Gernia—unaware of ...
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Literary Fiction
The Chameleon's Shadow
by
Minette Walters
Knopf, 01/08/2008
When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he ...
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The Dragons of Babel
by
Michael Swanwick
Tor Books, 01/08/2008
A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills
by
Alan E. Kazdin
Houghton Mifflin, 01/08/2008
The director of the acclaimed Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic distills his thirty years of work with children into a step-by-step ...
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Advice
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
by
Robert Leleux
St. Martin's Press, 01/08/2008
In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of...more
The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise
by
Nina Hachigian, Mona Sutphen
Simon & Schuster, 01/08/2008
The rise of other global powers is most often posed as a sorry tale, full of threats to America's primacy, prosperity, and way of life. The potential ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Senator's Wife
by
Sue Miller
Knopf, 01/08/2008
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and ...
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Vienna Blood
by
Frank Tallis
Random House, 01/08/2008
Paperback original. In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation,...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by
Sudhir Venkatesh
Penguin Press, 01/10/2008
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Biography/Memoir
Beverly Hills Dead
by
Stuart Woods
Penguin, 01/15/2008
Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills cop, has risen to head of production of Centurion Pictures, and he's at the top of his game. But tensions are high...
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Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain
by
David Bainbridge
Harvard University Press, 01/15/2008
In his latest book, David Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Capitol Conspiracy: A Novel
by
William Bernhardt
Ballantine Books, 01/15/2008
Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments–and the ...
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Death Before Wicket: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by
Kerry Greenwood
Poisoned Pen Press, 01/15/2008
Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with ...
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Go With Me: A Novel
by
Castle Freeman
Steerforth Press, 01/15/2008
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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
by
Keith R. Mcfarland
Crown Business, 01/15/2008
The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Expeditions
by
Karl Iagnemma
The Dial Press, 01/15/2008
From Karl Iagnemma, recipient of the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, comes this fierce and gorgeous novel, the story of an estranged father and son’...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body
by
Neil Shubin
Pantheon Books, 01/15/2008
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
by
David Levering Lewis
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/21/2008
In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew ... A ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
At the City's Edge
by
Marcus Sakey
Minotaur Books, 01/22/2008
Home from Iraq and still reeling from his discharge, Jason Palmer plans to spend the summer drinking too much and chasing girls. But when his brother ...
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Beautiful Children: A Novel
by
Charles Bock
Random House, 01/22/2008
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance...
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Detective Story
by
Imre Kertesz
Knopf, 01/22/2008
As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In
...more
Duma Key: A Novel
by
Stephen King
Simon & Schuster, 01/22/2008
Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches into a new life. His wife asked for a ...
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Thrillers
Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat
by
Adam Langer
Spiegel & Grau, 01/22/2008
Clarinetist Ike Morphy, his dog Herbie Mann, and a pair of pigeons who roost on his air conditioner are about to be evicted from their apartment on ...
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Every Last Cuckoo: A Novel
by
Kate Maloy
Algonquin Books, 01/22/2008
At age seventy-five, Sarah thought that her life was settled and assured: she and Charles would live out their days in the quiet comfort of their ...
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Inside Straight
by
George R.R. Martin
Tor Books, 01/22/2008
In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Riding Toward Everywhere
by
William T. Vollmann
Ecco, 01/22/2008
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and...
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The Commoner: A Novel
by
John Burnham Schwartz
Nan A. Talese, 01/22/2008
Told in the voice of Haruko, meticulously researched and superbly imagined,
The Commoner is the mesmerizing, moving, and surprising story of a ...
more
The Devil's Footprints
by
John Burnside
Nan A. Talese, 01/22/2008
Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. When Moira Birnie, convinced that her abusive husband is the ...
more
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
by
Yoko Ogawa
Picador, 01/22/2008
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
by
Chandler Burr
Henry Holt and Company, 01/22/2008
No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress
by
Dr. John Gray
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/22/2008
Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have ...
more
Advice
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
by
Judith Herrin
Princeton University Press, 01/24/2008
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism--gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Revolutions
by
Hari Kunzru
Dutton, 01/24/2008
Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no ...
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Standard of Honor: A Templar Novel
by
Jack Whyte
Penguin, 01/24/2008
In 1187 one of the few survivors of the Battle of Hattin, young Scots Templar Alexander Sinclair, escapes into the desert despite his wounds. Sinclair...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dark Roots
by
Cate Kennedy
Black Cat, 01/28/2008
Paperback original. Australian Cate Kennedy delivers a mesmerizing story collection that travels to the deepest depths of the human psyche. In these ...
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
by
David Rieff
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/28/2008
Both a memoir and an investigation,
Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final ...
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Sword Song: The Battle for London
by
Bernard Cornwell
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/28/2008
The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Life Class: A Novel
by
Pat Barker
Doubleday, 01/29/2008
In this superb new novel, Pat Barker returns to her most renowned subject: the devastation and psychic damage wrought by WWI on all levels of British ...
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Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top
by
Nina Disesa
Ballantine Books, 01/29/2008
Fact #1: Forty years after the feminist revolution, fewer than 2 percent of Fortune 1000 CEOs are women.
Fact #2: The playing field is not level.
...
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Advice
Sharp Teeth
by
Toby Barlow
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/29/2008
An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shooting the Moon
by
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Atheneum Books, 01/29/2008
Amie thinks her father can do anything ... until the one time he can do nothing. When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is ...
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The Appeal
by
John Grisham
Doubleday, 01/29/2008
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town&#...
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The Betrayal Game
by
David L. Robbins
Bantam Books, 01/29/2008
The breathtaking new thriller by suspense master David L. Robbins of a conspiracy so explosive, it could only be told as fiction. You know only half ...
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Mysteries
The Reserve
by
Russell Banks
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/29/2008
Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises ...
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A Person of Interest
by
Susan Choi
Viking, 01/31/2008
When a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest, comes ...
more
The Accident Man
by
Tom Cain
Viking, 01/31/2008
Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain’s
The Accident Man surprises the reader at every ...
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A Grave in Gaza: An Omar Yussef Mystery
by
Matt Beynon Rees
Soho Press, 02/01/2008
As he tries to save the lives of two men, Omar Yussef is confronted with the corruption and violence of Gaza’s warring government factions and ...
more
Confessions of a Falling Woman: And Other Stories
by
Debra Dean
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/01/2008
A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention. . . . A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a ...
more
Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
by
Bob Delaney with Dave Scheiber
Union Square Press, 02/01/2008
NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball’s most respected referees. In 1975, ...
more
Talk of the Town
by
Lisa Wingate
Bethany House Publishers, 02/01/2008
The show
American Megastar is the hottest thing on television but its associate producer, Mandalay Florentino, is worried. She's just arrived in the ...
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Literary Fiction
The Boy Who Dared
by
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Scholastic, 02/01/2008
Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book,
Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-...
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Historical Fiction
The Konkans
by
Tony D'Souza
Harcourt, 02/01/2008
Francisco D’Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son—all the way back to the beginning of a long line of proud Konkans. Known as the 'Jews ...
more
The Age of Shiva: A Novel
by
Manil Suri
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/04/2008
Meera, the narrator, is seventeen years old when she catches her first glimpse of Dev, performing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in ...
more
7th Heaven: Woman's Murder Club
by
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Little Brown & Company, 02/05/2008
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. ...
more
Thrillers
A Fatal Grace: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 02/05/2008
Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel!
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate a woman's death, it doesn't take long ...
more
Fear of Landing
by
David Waltner-Toews
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/05/2008
On the islands of Java and Bali in the early 1980s, Western governments are pouring millions of dollars into development schemes even as Indonesian ...
more
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
by
William Poundstone
Hill and Wang, 02/05/2008
At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a “spoiler”—a minor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
by
Michael Kodas
Hyperion, 02/05/2008
In 2004, journalist Michael Kodas joined local mountain climbers from home on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
His Illegal Self
by
Peter Carey
Knopf, 02/05/2008
His Illegal Self is the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student ...
more
Hope's Boy
by
Andrew Bridge
Hyperion, 02/05/2008
From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother Hope shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Trapped in desperate ...
more
John: A Novel
by
Niall Williams
Bloomsbury USA, 02/05/2008
In the years following the death of Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, now a frail, blind old man, lives in forced exile on the desolate island of Patmos...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
L.A. Outlaws
by
T. Jefferson Parker
Penguin, 02/05/2008
Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to ...
more
Prepared for Rage: A Novel
by
Dana Stabenow
Minotaur Books, 02/05/2008
Following
A Deeper Sleep, her most successful Kate Shugak novel to date, the Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling thriller writer Dana ...
more
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
by
William Lee Miller
Knopf, 02/05/2008
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. ...
more
Stranger in Paradise
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/05/2008
The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a ...
more
Thrillers
The Church of 80% Sincerity
by
David Roche
Perigree, 02/05/2008
The Church of 80% Sincerity shares the inspiring, poignant, wickedly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking story of motivational speaker David Roche's ...
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Advice
The Devil's Bones: A Novel
by
Jefferson Bass
William Morrow, 02/05/2008
A woman's charred body has been found inside a burned car perched atop a hill in Knoxville. Is it accidental death, or murder followed by arson? ...
more
Thrillers
The Killing Room
by
Peter May
St. Martin's Press, 02/05/2008
Peter May’s thrilling new China novel brings together Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell for the third time.
...
more
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
by
Bruce Barcott
Random House, 02/05/2008
Award-winning author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola’s inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life
by
Felicia Sullivan
Algonquin Books, 02/05/2008
Felicia Sullivan's volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted mother disappeared on the night Sullivan graduated from college, and has not been ...
more
Wild Inferno
by
Sandi Ault
Penguin, 02/05/2008
Wild Indigo introduced rough and ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild. Now she returns - deployed to a wildfire on the Southern Ute ...
more
Death of a Gentle Lady
by
M. C. Beaton
Grand Central Publishing, 02/11/2008
Gentle by name, gentle by nature.Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle - everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is....
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Dakota
by
Martha Grimes
Viking, 02/12/2008
In this sequel to
Biting the Moon, young Andi Oliver is an amnesiac and drifter who awoke in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast with a man’s belongings...
more
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
by
Steven Millhauser
Knopf, 02/12/2008
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a dazzling new collection of ...
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Have You Found Her: A Memoir
by
Janice Erlbaum
Villard, 02/12/2008
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer...
more
Biography/Memoir
Lady Macbeth
by
Susan Fraser King
Crown, 02/12/2008
Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female descendent of Scotland’s most royal line. Married to a powerful northern lord, she is widowed while ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq
by
Michael Scheuer
Free Press, 02/12/2008
When Michael Scheuer first questioned the goals of the Iraq War in his 2004
bestseller
Imperial Hubris, policymakers and ordinary citizens alike
...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
by
Natalie Goldberg
Free Press, 02/12/2008
To write memoir, we must first know how to remember. Through timed, associative,
and meditative exercises,
Old Friend from Far Away guides you to ...
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Advice
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
by
Benazir Bhutto
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/12/2008
Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shavetail
by
Thomas Cobb
Scribner, 02/12/2008
Set in 1871 in the unforgiving wasteland of the Arizona Territory, Shavetail is the story of Private Ned Thorne, a seventeen-year-old boy from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
by
Boris Akunin
Random House, 02/12/2008
Paperback original. In
Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals...
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The Ghost War
by
Alex Berenson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/12/2008
CIA agent John Wells returns, in a novel that reaches beyond today's headlines to foretell dangers yet to come.
The Killing Ground
by
Jack Higgins
Penguin, 02/12/2008
Soldier, spy, fixer and assassin Igor Levin may have escaped the grasp of Sean Dillon and company in Higgins’ 2005 bestseller
Without Mercy –...
more
Thrillers
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Slip of the Knife: A Novel
by
Denise Mina
Little Brown & Company, 02/13/2008
A brilliant new thriller featuring Paddy Meehan, one of the most praised heroines since Temperance Brennan, from "a rising star in the world of crime ...
more
What the Gospels Meant
by
Garry Wills
Viking, 02/14/2008
Garry Wills’s recent New York Times bestselling books
What Jesus Meant and
What Paul Meant were tour-de-force interpretations of the teachings of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Desert Cut: A Lena Jones Mystery
by
Betty Webb
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/15/2008
In
Desert Cut, the still vivid memory of Geronimo's war mixes with the modern immigration war, the hard life on the Arizona/Mexico border contrasts ...
more
Binu and The Great Wall: The Myth of Meng (The Myths)
by
Su Tong
Canongate Books, 02/18/2008
Su Tong is China's most provocative young writer.
Binu and the Great Wall is spellbinding and shocking—a tour de force from an artist called "a ...
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Literary Fiction
Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution
by
Jerome Charyn
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/18/2008
A comic reimagining of the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy, a heroic whorehouse madam, and a cunning George Washington.
Praised for one of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lady Killer
by
Lisa Scottoline
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/19/2008
Mary DiNunzio is a trademark Lisa Scottoline heroine - she's strong, she's smart, and she's got plenty of attitude. In recent years, she's become a ...
more
Next of Kin: A Novel
by
John Boyne
St. Martin's Press, 02/19/2008
Next of Kin steps into the drawing rooms and private clubs of the prewar English aristocracy to offer an unobstructed view of a social elite driven by...
more
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/19/2008
When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're in control. We think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we?
In a series ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Silver: My Own Tale As Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder
by
Edward Chupack
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/19/2008
Held captive aboard his own ship, the Linda Maria, Silver is to be taken to England, where he will hang at the king's pleasure. But he has another ...
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The First Patient
by
Michael Palmer
St. Martin's Press, 02/19/2008
Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Nowadays, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend ...
more
The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
by
Deepak Chopra
Harmony Books, 02/19/2008
Who is Jesus Christ?
In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a ...
more
Advice
Before Green Gables
by
Budge Wilson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/21/2008
When readers first met Anne, she is eleven, and has just been sent from an orphanage to meet her new family. No one ever learned the events of Anne's ...
more
Literary Fiction
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
by
Nick Taylor
Bantam Books, 02/26/2008
When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Betrayal
by
John Lescroart
Dutton, 02/26/2008
When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is ...
more
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
by
Elizabeth Hess
Bantam Books, 02/26/2008
Dubbed Project Nim, the experiment was the brainchild of Herbert S. Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University. His goal was to teach a chimpanzee...
more
Remember Me?
by
Sophie Kinsella
Dial Books, 02/26/2008
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her ...
more
Romance
The Night Following
by
Morag Joss
Delacorte Press, 02/26/2008
On a blustery April day, the quiet, rather private wife of a doctor discovers that her husband has been having an affair. Moments later, driving along...
more
Thrillers
Matter
by
Iain M Banks
Orbit, 02/27/2008
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Friend of the Devil
by
Peter Robinson
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/28/2008
Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes ..... One morning in March, on the ...
more
The Labrador Pact: A Novel
by
Matt Haig
Viking, 02/28/2008
The Hunters are your typical family, with typical concerns—work, money, love, the trials of adolescence— with one difference: They are ...
more
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
by
Mark Doty
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2008
Mark Doty's
Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects—our...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Fly by Night
by
Frances Hardinge
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2008
Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn't got much. Her parents are dead, her cruel uncle keeps her locked away, and her only friend is her pet goose. But she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Notorious: A Novel Of Suspense
by
Michele Martinez
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2008
About to take a controversial rap star to trial for a past crime, Melanie Vargas receives an important piece of information from his lawyer. In full ...
more
Mysteries
The Philosopher's Apprentice: A Novel
by
James Morrow
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2008
A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose has torpedoed a promising academic career and now faces a dead-end future. ...
more
Blood Kin
by
Ceridwen Dovey
Viking, 03/03/2008
A president has been overthrown by a military coup in a nameless country in an unspecified era. The president's barber, chef, and portraitist are ...
more
The Painter of Shanghai
by
Jennifer Cody Epstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/03/2008
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Prisoner of Birth
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 03/04/2008
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his ...
more
Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
by
Rebecca Walker
Penguin Books, 03/04/2008
Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed for a baby but ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Change of Heart
by
Jodi Picoult
Atria Books, 03/04/2008
A spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation.
Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do ...
more
Chasing Windmills
by
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Flying Dolphin Press, 03/04/2008
Both Sebastian and Maria live in a world ruled by fear. Sebastian, a lonely seventeen-year-old, is suffocating under his dominant father’s ...
more
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
by
Anne Rice
Knopf, 03/04/2008
Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one among many who come to the synagogue on the Sabbath. All ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cross
by
Ken Bruen
Minotaur Books, 03/04/2008
Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption - his surrogate son, Cody - is lying in the hospital in a coma. At...
more
Dead Time
by
Stephen R. White
Penguin, 03/04/2008
After the shocking developments in
Dry Ice, Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with his newly adopted son and repair his shaky, ...
more
Thrillers
Dervishes
by
Beth Helms
Picador, 03/04/2008
Paperback original. The richly textured, panoramic story of an American mother and daughter stuck in the expatriate community of Ankara, Turkey, in ...
more
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
by
L. Patrick Gray, Ed Gray
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2008
The last untold story of Watergate - by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years. L.Patrick Gray III was the man caught...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Terra Incognita: A Novel of the Roman Empire
by
Ruth Downie
Bloomsbury USA, 03/04/2008
It is spring in the year 118, and Gaius Petreius Ruso has been stationed in the Roman-occupied province of Britannia for nearly a year. After his long...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Amateur Spy: A Novel
by
Dan Fesperman
Knopf, 03/04/2008
Burned out by years of humanitarian-aid work, Freeman and Mila Lockhart have retreated to an idyllic Greek island. But on the first night of their new...
more
The Ancient
by
R. A. Salvatore
Tor Books, 03/04/2008
Searching for his long-lost father, Bransen Garibond is tricked into journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard, where he is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by
Charles Lane
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2008
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where Negroes and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by
Brian Fagan
Bloomsbury USA, 03/04/2008
From the tenth to the fifteenth centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed the climate worldwide—a preview of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The North China Lover: A Novel
by
Marguerite Duras
The New Press, 03/04/2008
Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels,
The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Silver Swan: A Novel
by
Benjamin Black
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2008
The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and ...
more
The Woman Who Wouldn't
by
Gene Wilder
St. Martin's Press, 03/04/2008
The beloved actor and screenwriter’s second novel, set in 1903, stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb, who one day goes from ...
more
Virgin River: A Barnaby Skye Novel
by
Richard S. Wheeler
Forge Books, 03/04/2008
The famed mountain man and his two wives, Victoria of the Crows and Mary of the Shoshones, take a party of tubercular young people to the southwestern...
more
Historical Fiction
Another Thing to Fall: Tess Monaghan #10
by
Laura Lippman
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/11/2008
The California dream weavers have invaded Charm City with their cameras, their stars, and their controversy. . . .
When private investigator Tess ...
more
Blind Fall
by
Christopher Rice
Scribner, 03/11/2008
John Houck became a Marine to become a hero. But his life changed when he failed to notice an explosive device that ended up maiming the captain of ...
more
Chandra's Wars
by
Allan Stratton
HarperTeen, 03/11/2008
She promised her mama she'd keep them safe.
It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. ...
more
Curse of the Spellmans
by
Lisa Lutz
Simon & Schuster, 03/11/2008
The Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny story of suspicion,...
more
Dreamers of the Day
by
Mary Doria Russell
Random House, 03/11/2008
A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
by
Steven Waldman
Random House, 03/11/2008
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Killer Heat
by
Linda Fairstein
Doubleday, 03/11/2008
Linda Fairstein, America's foremost prosecutor of crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, returns with her 10th Alex Cooper thriller; an ...
more
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by
Michio Kaku
Doubleday, 03/11/2008
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Book of Dahlia
by
Elisa Albert
Free Press, 03/11/2008
A dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In
The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between ...
more
The Prince of Bagram Prison
by
Alex Carr
Random House, 03/11/2008
Paperback Original. Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: Retired spy ...
more
The Rain Before It Falls
by
Jonathan Coe
Knopf, 03/11/2008
Following
The Rotters’ Club and its sequel,
The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three ...
more
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
by
Joshua Kendall
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/13/2008
Peter Mark Roget - polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado - was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Black Widow
by
Randy Wayne White
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2008
It went against all of Ford's instincts. When his goddaughter, Shanay, called one day, he assumed it was with details of her imminent wedding, but the...
more
Charley's Web
by
Joy Fielding
Atria Books, 03/18/2008
Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an ...
more
Literary Fiction
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Penguin Press, 03/18/2008
The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dark Tide
by
Andrew Gross
William Morrow, 03/18/2008
An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund ...
more
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
by
Anna Porter
Walker & Company, 03/18/2008
The heroic story of the "Hungarian Oscar Schindler" who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be ...
more
Knockemstiff
by
Donald Ray Pollock
Doubleday, 03/18/2008
In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but ...
more
Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal
by
Matthew Parker
Doubleday, 03/18/2008
The building of the Panama Canal was a project whose gestation spanned hundreds of years. Columbus himself searched for a way to get to the Pacific ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Fourth Man
by
K. O. Dahl
Minotaur Books, 03/18/2008
In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frølich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired ...
more
The Post-War Dream
by
Mitch Cullin
Nan A. Talese, 03/18/2008
Hollis and Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson. Although they are devoted to each other, events that ...
more
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by
Daoud Hari
Random House, 03/18/2008
"I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage ...
more
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel
by
Mo Yan
Arcade Publishing, 03/19/2008
Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land ...
more
Pravda
by
Edward Docx
Houghton Mifflin, 03/19/2008
Paperback Original.
Inspired by the author's own family history,
Pravda is a haunting chronicle of suspicion and loss, love and loyalty, and the ...
more
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
by
Max Hastings
Knopf, 03/19/2008
A riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed
Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience
by
Justin Wintle
1stBooks Library, 03/20/2008
Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, "just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death." Aung San Suu Kyi is considered ...
more
Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
by
Rachel Corrie
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/24/2008
How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions so ...
more
Biography/Memoir
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
by
Billy Collins (editor)
Random House, 03/25/2008
Inspired by Billy Collins's poem-a-day program for American high schools that
he began through the Library of Congress, the original
Poetry 180: A ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Thomas Pitt Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 03/25/2008
It is late one night in Buckingham Palace, and Queen Victoria's eldest son, affectionately known as Bertie, has been up to his usual pranks. The aging...
more
Mysteries
Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 03/25/2008
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad ...
more
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by
Tobias Wolff
Knopf, 03/25/2008
Tobias Wolff’s first two books,
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and
Back in the World, were a powerful demonstration of how the short...
more
The Bible of Clay
by
Julia Navarro
Bantam Books, 03/25/2008
In St. Peter’s Basilica, a man sits in a confessional asking forgiveness for a murder he’s about to commit. And a young priest begins a ...
more
The Cure for Modern Life: A Novel
by
Lisa Tucker
Atria Books, 03/25/2008
Matthew and Amelia were once in love and planning to raise a family together, but a decade later, they have become professional enemies. To Amelia, ...
more
The Dreaming Void
by
Peter F. Hamilton
Del Rey, 03/25/2008
At the far edge of the known universe stands a Centurion Station, a research base built atop ruins two million years old, abandoned by aliens since ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
by
Aaron David Miller
Bantam Books, 03/25/2008
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by
Pico Iyer
Knopf, 03/25/2008
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-...
more
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
by
Charles Robert Jenkins
University of California Press, 03/25/2008
He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Seer of Shadows
by
Avi
HarperCollins Children's Books, 03/25/2008
The time is 1872. The place is New York City. Horace Carpetine has been raised to believe in science and rationality. So as apprentice to Enoch ...
more
Historical Fiction
Devil's Peak: A Novel
by
Deon Meyer
Little Brown & Company, 03/26/2008
A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to ...
more
Miss Julia Paints the Town
by
Ann B. Ross
Penguin, 03/27/2008
When developers threaten to bulldoze the old courthouse to make way for condominiums, Miss Julia is dismayed. She enlists the help of Etta Mae Wiggins...
more
Literary Fiction
The Ten-Year Nap: A Novel
by
Meg Wolitzer
Riverhead Books, 03/27/2008
For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they ...
more
A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing
by
Avi
Harcourt Children's Books, 04/01/2008
Avon the snail and Edward the ant are back for another funny--and philosophical--adventure. This time, Avon has decided he wants to be a writer, only ...
more
Advice
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
by
Czeslaw Milosz (editor)
Harvest Books, 04/01/2008
Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's personal selection of the world's greatest poetry ranges among 300 of the finest poems written through the ages and ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Carrion Death: A Mystery Introducing Detective Kubu
by
Michael Stanley
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/01/2008
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.
But when Kalahari game ...
more
A Remarkable Mother
by
Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2008
Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter was a registered nurse, physicians’ assistant, pecan grower, university housemother, nursing home manager, Peace ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Armageddon in Retrospect
by
Kurt Vonnegut
Penguin, 04/01/2008
To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death in April 2007,
Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and ...
more
Bound: A Novel
by
Sally Gunning
William Morrow, 04/01/2008
Brought to New England and bound into servitude to pay her father's debts, Alice Cole, at fifteen, can barely remember the time when she was not a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Days of Atonement: A Mystery
by
Michael Gregorio
Minotaur Books, 04/01/2008
It is 1807 and Napoleon’s army has swept over Prussia, leaving in its wake a conquered land occupied by the French. Local magistrate Hanno ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Exodus
by
Julie Bertagna
Walker & Company, 04/01/2008
Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it no longer exists. Cities have disappeared beneath the sea, technology no longer functions...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
by
Murat Kurnaz
Palgrave Macmillan, 04/01/2008
In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he ...
more
Headhunters: An Inspector Hen Mallin Investigation
by
Peter Lovesey
Soho Press, 04/01/2008
Gemma loathes her sleazy boss; Jo is her confidante. On a double date with Rick and Jake, they discuss forming a mutual murder society, in jest of ...
more
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
by
Julie Andrews
Hyperion, 04/01/2008
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But ...
more
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by
Sloane Crosley
Riverhead Books, 04/01/2008
Paperback Original. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness ...
more
Losing You
by
Nicci French
Minotaur Books, 04/01/2008
It’s Nina Landry’s birthday, and she’s supposed to have her kids ready to leave in a few hours for a Christmas holiday in Florida with ...
more
Parenting, Inc.
by
Pamela Paul
Times Books, 04/01/2008
A leading social critic goes inside the billion-dollar baby business to expose the marketing and the myths, helping parents determine what’s ...
more
Red Car: Stories
by
Sallie Bingham
Sarabande Books, 04/01/2008
Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with
Red Car, a collection written in her ...
more
Short Stories
Sepulchre
by
Kate Mosse
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2008
A chance encounter leads Meredith to a piece of 19th century music known as "the Sepulchre" and pack of Tarot cards painted by Leonie Vernier in 1891,...
more
Shape of Water
by
Anne Spollen
Flux, 04/01/2008
According to 15-year-old Magdalenas mother, the world is strange, beautiful, and watery—full of secrets and discoveries known only to mother and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files
by
Jim Butcher
Penguin, 04/01/2008
No one's tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks fairly ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by
Steve Coll
Penguin, 04/01/2008
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Finder
by
Colin Harrison
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/01/2008
Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information...
more
The Forgery of Venus: A Novel
by
Michael Gruber
William Morrow, 04/01/2008
Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, ...
more
Thrillers
The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom
by
Martin Amis
Knopf, 04/01/2008
A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an ...
more
The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
by
Louis P. Masur
Bloomsbury USA, 04/01/2008
The photograph strikes us with visceral force, even years after the instant it captured. A white man, rage written on his face, lunges to spear a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sorrows of an American
by
Siri Hustvedt
Henry Holt and Company, 04/01/2008
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father’s papers, they believe he may be ...
more
The Stone Gods
by
Jeanette Winterson
Harcourt, 04/01/2008
A glimpse into unlikely love braved in the face of the void. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet–pristine and habitable, like...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Story of Forgetting
by
Stefan Merrill Block
Random House, 04/01/2008
Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family’s farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in ...
more
The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
by
Isabel Allende
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/01/2008
In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, ...
more
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
by
Saul Friedlander
Harper Perennial, 04/01/2008
The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What Is Life?: Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
by
Ed Regis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/01/2008
In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called
What Is Life? In fewer than one ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Winter Study: A Novel
by
Nevada Barr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2008
Anna Pigeon is edgier than ever in Winter Study, a character driven mystery set on Isle Royale in the dark days of January when the island is ...
more
Thrillers
Wit's End: A Novel
by
Karen Joy Fowler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2008
Set in contemporary Santa Cruz,
Wit’s End opens as Rima Lanisell arrives at her godmother’s old Victorian mansion, weary from her recent ...
more
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by
Mary Roach
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/07/2008
The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming
by
Gabrielle Walker, David King
Harcourt, 04/07/2008
Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Certain Girls
by
Jennifer Weiner
Simon & Schuster, 04/08/2008
"My mother," Joy Shapiro Krushelevansky writes in her diary late one night, "is the most embarrassing person to have ever been born." It's been almost...
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Delusion: A Novel of Suspense
by
Peter Abrahams
William Morrow, 04/08/2008
Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau witnessed the murder of her boyfriend. Her testimony put a man behind bars—and led her to her husband, Clay, the ...
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by
Misha Glenny
Knopf, 04/08/2008
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Playing With the Grown-ups: A Novel
by
Sophie Dahl
Nan A. Talese, 04/08/2008
For Kitty, growing up at Hay House among bluebell woods and doting relations is heaven. But for her mother, the restless Marina, a bohemian beauty who...
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Shadow Country (Modern Library)
by
Peter Matthiessen
The Modern Library, 04/08/2008
Peter Matthiessen's great American epic –
Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and
Bone by Bone – was conceived as one vast ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Girl with No Shadow
by
Joanne Harris
William Morrow, 04/08/2008
Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above ...
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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
by
Lily Koppel
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/08/2008
Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young...
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The Third Angel
by
Alice Hoffman
Shaye Areheart Books, 04/08/2008
In
The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong...
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Where Are You Now?: A Novel
by
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, 04/08/2008
It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and ...
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Thrillers
Madness: A Bipolar Life
by
Marya Hornbacher
Houghton Mifflin, 04/09/2008
An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights.
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book,
...more
Lady Lazarus
by
Andrew Foster Altschul
Harcourt, 04/14/2008
This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath—whose ...
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A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
by
Hara Estroff Marano
Broadway Books, 04/15/2008
Wake up America: we’re raising a nation of wimps. Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take all the discomfort and disappointment out of ...
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Advice
Friday Nights: A Novel
by
Joanna Trollope
Bloomsbury USA, 04/15/2008
From the master of literary domestic drama, a page-turning novel that dissects the complexities of female friendship and the choices that define women...
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Ginseng Hunter
by
Jeff Talarigo
Nan A. Talese, 04/15/2008
Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea,
The Ginseng Hunter is an ...
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Hold Tight
by
Harlan Coben
Penguin, 04/15/2008
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become spying, overprotective parents. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant and ...
more
Keeper of Dreams
by
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books, 04/15/2008
This huge new collection of the short stories of one of Science Fiction’s most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
by
Peter Ackroyd
Doubleday, 04/15/2008
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to science in 1665-66 while at his parents’ home in Lincolnshire ...
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Peace
by
Richard Bausch
Knopf, 04/15/2008
From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of ...
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Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
by
Donna Foote
Knopf, 04/15/2008
The story is set in South Los Angeles at Locke High School, an institution founded in 1967 in the spirit of renewal that followed the devastating ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Seven for a Secret: A John the Eunuch Mystery
by
Mary and Eric Mayer Reed
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/15/2008
Who killed the mosaic girl? As Lord Chamberlain, John spends his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in ...
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The Ancient Rain
by
Domenic Stansberry
Minotaur Books, 04/15/2008
Edgar Award winner and master of contemporary noir Domenic Stansberry returns to San Francisco's North Beach and Dante Mancuso, the dark PI who grew ...
more
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
by
Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 04/15/2008
Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention
Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks...
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The Dream
by
Harry Bernstein
Random House, 04/15/2008
"Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked ...
more
The Eye of the Leopard: A Novel
by
Henning Mankell
New Press, 04/15/2008
Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia,
The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell's deep understanding of the two ...
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Literary Fiction
The Miracle at Speedy Motors: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 04/15/2008
In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best--helping people with ...
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by
Kate Summerscale
Walker & Company, 04/15/2008
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Walking with God: Talk to Him. Hear from Him. Really.
by
John Eldredge
Thomas Nelson, 04/15/2008
God longs to speak. And it is our right and privilege to hear His voice. Our deepest longings could all find sufficient fulfillment in God's company. ...
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Advice
Dictation: A Quartet
by
Cynthia Ozick
Houghton Mifflin, 04/16/2008
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of
Heir to the Glimmering World.more
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by
Tony Judt
Penguin Press, 04/17/2008
The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" ...
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Split: A Memoir of Divorce
by
Suzanne Finnamore
Dutton, 04/17/2008
There are certain books that come to epitomize their painful subject matter, offering solace to those who share the same fate and pleasure to those ...
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U. S. vs Them: How a Half-Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security
by
J. Peter Scoblic
Viking, 04/17/2008
In U.S. Versus Them, J. Peter Scoblic argues that the Bush administration’s belief in “moral clarity”—its insistence that our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
by
Christopher Robbins
Atlas & Co, 04/21/2008
A funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan, a country rich with wild tulips, oil, nomads who hunt with golden eagles, and a disappearing ...
more
Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old Macdonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
by
Catherine Friend
Da Capo Press, 04/21/2008
Following the cult favorite
Hit by a Farm, an original look into the clamor over livestock and meat, showing consumers how to be healthy and humane ...
more
The White King
by
Gyorgy Dragoman
Houghton Mifflin, 04/21/2008
This startling and heartbreaking debut recounts the adventures of eleven-year-old Djata in one life-changing year. To be published in twenty countries...
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Forever Rose
by
Hilary McKay
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 04/22/2008
Rose knows that nothing stays the same forever.
Still, it's hard to watch her sisters and brother growing up and moving so far ahead of her. Caddy ...
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Literary Fiction
Howl's Moving Castle
by
Diana Wynne Jones
Greenwillow Books, 04/22/2008
Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Quicksand
by
Iris Johansen
St. Martin's Press, 04/22/2008
Returning from Johansen's New York Times bestselling thriller,
Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, ...
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So Brave, Young and Handsome
by
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/22/2008
One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel,
Peace Like a River, captured ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rosetta Key
by
William Dietrich
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/22/2008
Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a ...
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Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
by
Alex Kershaw
Da Capo Press, 04/28/2008
The adrenaline-soaked story of nine men who fought the Japanese from America's deadliest submarine, survived its sinking, and endured months of brutal...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
by
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, 04/28/2008
A leader among leaders, John Maxwell promised himself early in his career that he wouldn't write this book until he was sixty. And now it's finally ...
more
Advice
The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf: The Squire's Tales
by
Gerald Morris
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 04/28/2008
Her castle under siege by an evil knight who keeps beheading all her would-be rescuers, Lady Lynet realizes the only way to get help is to get it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
by
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Press, 04/29/2008
Millions of listeners have been flat-out astonished, profoundly moved, and massively entertained by the writing of Augusten Burroughs. Now, with
A ...more
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
by
V.S. Naipaul
Knopf, 04/29/2008
Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul has ...
more
Black Boy
by
Richard Wright
Harper Perennial, 04/29/2008
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the
New York Times ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Child 44
by
Tom Rob Smith
Grand Central Publishing, 04/29/2008
Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Eight Lives Down: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Job in the World's Most Dangerous Place
by
Chris Hunter
Delacorte Press, 04/29/2008
It's a blazing hot day in Iraq. Wearing eighty-five pounds of armor, Major Chris Hunter crosses a barren landscape toward a bomb that has been ...
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by
Arthur Herman
Bantam Books, 04/29/2008
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
God of War
by
Marisa Silver
Simon & Schuster, 04/29/2008
The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an ...
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Smiles to Go
by
Jerry Spinelli
Joanna Cotler Books, 04/29/2008
What is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control ...
more
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
by
Karen Dawn
HarperPaperbacks, 04/29/2008
Don't you want to be part of the conversation? In
Thanking the Monkey, Karen Dawn covers pets, fur, fashion, food, animal testing, activism, and more....
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by
Mary E. Pearso
Henry Holt and Company, 04/29/2008
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering...
more
The End of East
by
Jen Sookfong Lee
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/29/2008
At age eighteen, Seid Quan is the first in the Chan family to emigrate from China to Vancover in 1913. Paving the way for a wife and son, he is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Joys of Love
by
Madeleine L'Engle
FSG Books for Young Readers, 04/29/2008
During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth ...
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Literary Fiction
The Master Bedroom
by
Tessa Hadley
Picador, 04/29/2008
After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has returned to her family home in Wales to care for her aging mother. Having cast off her academic...
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The Road of Bones
by
Anne Fine
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/29/2008
Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged – where he is told what to cheer for and who to believe in, where even the ...
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Vodka Neat: A Faith Zanetti Thriller
by
Anna Blundy
Minotaur Books, 04/29/2008
Vodka Neat features Faith Zanetti, a war correspondent with plenty of libido, good looks, a great sense of humor, and a zest for life that never quits...
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By Hook or By Crook
by
David Crystal
Overlook, 05/01/2008
David Crystal has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as a "latter-day Samuel Johnson." Now, in a delightfully discursive journey ...
more
Climbing the Stairs
by
Padma Venkatraman
Putnam Juvenile, 05/01/2008
During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Enlightenment
by
Maureen Freely
Overlook, 05/01/2008
In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her five-year-old son distributed to a foster family by US border patrol,...
more
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by
Jim Sheeler
Penguin Press, 05/01/2008
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. "The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Genius Squad
by
Catherine Jinks
Harcourt Children's Books, 05/01/2008
Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon has died; and Prosper English (who enrolled Cadel...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lamplighter: Monster Blood Tattoo Series #2
by
D. M. Cornish
Putnam Juvenile, 05/01/2008
Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. Sworn into the Emperor's service, his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Steampunk
by
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Editors)
Tachyon Publications, 05/01/2008
Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sunrise Over Fallujah
by
Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic, 05/01/2008
Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR.
...
more
The New Yorkers
by
Cathleen Schine
Picador, 05/01/2008
Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's
The New Yorkers is a ...
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The Red Necklace
by
Sally Gardner
Dial Books, 05/01/2008
Clever and head-turningly attractive, fourteen-year old Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet ...
more
You Can Heal Your Life
by
Louise Hay
Hay House Publishing, 05/01/2008
You Can Heal Your Life, the definitive bestselling book on self-healing, has transformed the lives of millions of people. This is a book that people ...
more
Advice
Princess Ben
by
Catherine Murdock
Houghton Mifflin, 05/05/2008
Benevolence is not your typical princess and
Princess Ben is certainly not your typical fairy tale. With her parents lost to unknown assassins, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Calling
by
Inger Ash Wolfe
Harcourt, 05/05/2008
This brilliant debut mystery has it all: characters so realistic they rise off the page; a devious plot that delivers both psychological depth and ...
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The Post-American World
by
Fareed Zakaria
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2008
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research
by
Sue Halpern
Harmony Books, 05/06/2008
An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Careless in Red: Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novel
by
Elizabeth George
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/06/2008
After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the...
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Cathedral of the Sea: A Novel
by
Ildefonso Falcones
Dutton, 05/06/2008
Cathedral of the Sea follows the fortunes of the Estanyol family, from their peasant roots to a son, Arnau, who flees the land only to realize ...
more
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
by
Ted Sorensen
Harper Perennial, 05/06/2008
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most ...
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Ever
by
Gail Carson Levine
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/06/2008
Falling in love is never easy, but falling in love with an immortal god while your days on earth are numbered is almost more than a young girl can ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How To Be Bad
by
Myracle, Mlynowski & Lockhart
HarperTeen, 05/06/2008
From three critically acclaimed and bestselling authors comes one story - equal parts charming, hilarious, and emotional - of a road trip that proves ...
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Killing Rommel
by
Steven Pressfield
Doubleday, 05/06/2008
Autumn, 1942. Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English stand isolated on their island. In North ...
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Historical Fiction
Phantom Prey: A Lucas Davenport Mystery
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/06/2008
A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body—and her college-aged daughter missing. She...
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Playing with Fire: Skulduggery Pleasant
by
Derek Landy
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/06/2008
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant
Ace Detective
Snappy Dresser
Razor–tongued Wit
Crackerjack Sorcerer
and
Walking, Talking,
Fire-throwing ...
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Mysteries
The Battle of the Labyrinth: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4
by
Rick Riordan
Hyperion, 05/06/2008
Percy isn't expecting his freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious acquaintance reappears, followed by demon cheerleaders, things ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
by
Carl Hiaasen
Knopf, 05/06/2008
Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats...
more
The Film Club: A Memoir
by
David Gilmour
Twelve Books, 05/06/2008
At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son...
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The Host: A Novel
by
Stephenie Meyer
Little Brown & Company, 05/06/2008
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies...
more
The Prince of Frogtown
by
Rick Bragg
Knopf, 05/06/2008
In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with
All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with
Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes ...
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The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science
by
Jill Price with Bart Davis
Free Press, 05/06/2008
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" - the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of...
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Biography/Memoir
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by
Bill Bishop
Houghton Mifflin, 05/07/2008
America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Fisher Boy
by
Stephen H. Anable
Poisoned Pen Press, 05/10/2008
A debut mystery set amid the clam shacks and craft shops, art galleries and nude beaches of Cape Cod Provincetown.
Spiraling from the tip of Cape...
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Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/12/2008
A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.
Fidelity
by
Thomas Perry
Harcourt, 05/12/2008
When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a ...
more
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
by
Saree Makdisi
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/12/2008
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Airhead
by
Meg Cabot
Scholastic, 05/13/2008
Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose ...
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Austerity Britain: 1945-1951
by
David Kynaston
Walker & Company, 05/13/2008
As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany’s aggression in World War II , and was ravaged in many ways at the war’s end. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by
Elizabeth Royte
Bloomsbury USA, 05/13/2008
An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water.
Having ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bright Shiny Morning
by
James Frey
Harper, 05/13/2008
Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls...
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Exiles
by
Ron Hansen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/13/2008
In December 1875 the steamship
Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck’...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Madapple
by
Christina Meldrum
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/13/2008
The secrets of the past meet the shocks of the present. Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching ...
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Madman on a Drum: A McKenzie Novel
by
David Housewright
Minotaur Books, 05/13/2008
Homicide cop Bobby Dunston's daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a...
more
Mysteries
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others
by
Marco Iacoboni
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/13/2008
What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person’s head—to know what they’re thinking and feeling? "Mind reading" ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by
Rick Perlstein
Scribner, 05/13/2008
Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Origins: A Memoir
by
Amin Maalouf
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/13/2008
Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the ...
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
by
Garth Stein
Harper, 05/13/2008
A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope--a captivating look at the wonders and ...
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Literary Fiction
The Boat
by
Nam Le
Knopf, 05/13/2008
A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to ...
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by
Leonard Mlodinow
Pantheon Books, 05/13/2008
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
by
David A. Price
Knopf, 05/13/2008
The Pixar Touch is a story of technical innovation that revolutionized animation, transforming hand-drawn cell animation to computer-generated 3-D ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
by
Jeff Shaara
Ballantine Books, 05/13/2008
General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books, 05/13/2008
The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion – Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome’s ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wolfman
by
Nicholas Pekearo
Tor Books, 05/13/2008
Marlowe Higgins has had a hard life. Since being dishonorably discharged after a tour in Vietnam, he's been in and out of prison, moving from town to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
by
Philippe Sands
Palgrave Macmillan, 05/13/2008
On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
by
James Meek
Canongate Books, 05/13/2008
The world around journalist and would-be novelist Adam Kellas is cracking. As a war correspondent in the Afghan mountains during post-9/11 operations,...
more
Literary Fiction
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by
Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking, 05/14/2008
A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities
...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest
by
Lincoln Hall
Tarcher, 05/15/2008
Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, he attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season ...
more
Evening Is the Whole Day
by
Preeta Samarasan
Houghton Mifflin, 05/15/2008
Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel by an acclaimed young writer introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as it slowly peels ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/17/2008
Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting the birth of a child she will call Sparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer during college, plans to...
more
Literary Fiction
Blood Trail: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C. J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/20/2008
It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, ...
more
Executive Privilege: A Novel
by
Phillip Margolin
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/20/2008
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty ...
more
Thrillers
Odd Hours: Odd Thomas Series #3
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 05/20/2008
Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward to a destiny he cannot imagine and to undreamed of places where the perils he will face and the ...
more
Mysteries
Shift
by
Jennifer Bradbury
Atheneum Books, 05/20/2008
Some friends fade away....Others disappear.
Imagine you and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek.
Imagine that the two of...
more
The Front
by
Patricia Cornwell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/20/2008
At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a not inconsiderable chip on his shoulder; ...
more
Thrillers
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure
by
Adam Gollner
Scribner, 05/20/2008
Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
by
Sherwin B. Nuland
Random House, 05/20/2008
Drawing from history, the recent past, and his own life, Nuland weaves a tapestry of compelling stories in which doctors have had to make decisions in...
more
River Ghosts
by
B. R. Robb
Gale Group, 05/25/2008
Richard Hill's innocent belief that love between his black father and white mother created him, that he is proof of a good and purposeful God, ends at...
more
A Horse of Her Own
by
Annie Wedekind
Feiwel & Friends, 05/27/2008
Fourteen-year-old Jane Ryan has always dreamed of having a horse of her own—but so long as she gets to ride her favorite school horse, Beau, at ...
more
Black Out
by
Lisa Unger
Shaye Areheart Books, 05/27/2008
"When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic."
On the surface, Annie Powers&#...
more
Chasing Harry Winston
by
Lauren Weisberger
Simon & Schuster, 05/27/2008
The bestselling author of
The Devil Wears Prada and
Everyone Worth Knowing is back with a delicious new novel about a trio of best friends in ...
more
Fever: A Nameless Detective Novel
by
Bill Pronzini
Forge Books, 05/27/2008
Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he’d do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She’d run away before—propelled by ...
more
Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
by
Patrick Creed, Rick Newman
Random House, 05/27/2008
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told – the gripping account of ordinary men and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Build a House
by
Dana Reinhardt
Random House Childrens Publishing, 05/27/2008
Harper's Dad is getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. ...
more
Memories of Babi: Stories
by
Aranka Siegal
FSG Books for Young Readers, 05/27/2008
Piri is a city girl, but every year she goes to visit her grandmother Babi on her farm in the Ukrainian village of Komjaty. There is a lot that Piri ...
more
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
by
Richard Preston
Random House, 05/27/2008
Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways.
Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Shadow of Power: A Paul Madriani Novel
by
Steve Martini
William Morrow, 05/27/2008
The Supreme Court is one of our most sacred—and secretive—public institutions. But sometimes secrets can lead to cover-ups with very deadly ...
more
Thrillers
The Aviary Gate: A Novel
by
Katie Hickman
Bloomsbury USA, 05/27/2008
Elizabeth Staveley sits in the Bodleian library, holding in her trembling hands a fragment of ancient paper. It is the key to a story that has been ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Marriage of True Minds
by
Stephen Evans
Unbridled Books, 05/27/2008
Together as husband and wife, Nick Ward and Lena Grant ran a successful boutique law firm in Minneapolis, vanquishing all their legal foes side by ...
more
The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
by
Maury Klein
Bloomsbury USA, 05/27/2008
The dramatic story of the “power revolution” that turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Reapers: A Thriller
by
John Connolly
Atria Books, 05/27/2008
As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but ...
more
The Safety of Secrets
by
Delaune Michel
Avon Books, 05/27/2008
"Now we're just alike." So begins Fiona and Patricia's friendship that warm autumn morning in first grade in Lake Charles, Louisiana, their bond ...
more
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
by
Sarah Manguso
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/27/2008
At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that ...
more
The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming
by
Jeannie Ralston
Broadway Books, 05/27/2008
In 1990, Jeannie Ralston was a successful magazine writer and bona fide city girl—the type of woman who couldn't imagine living on soil not ...
more
Devil May Care: The New James Bond Novel
by
Sebastian Faulks
Doubleday, 05/28/2008
Devil May Care is the newest installment in the iconic James Bond series, to be released worldwide on Ian Fleming’s birthday, May 28 2008. ...
more
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
by
Julia Keller
Viking, 05/29/2008
Although it was little used during the American Civil War—the time in which it was invented—the Gatling gun soon changed the nature of ...
more
The Political Mind: The Science Behind American Politics or, Why You Can't Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century View of the Mind
by
George Lakoff
Viking, 05/29/2008
In
What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Walking Dead
by
Gerald Seymour
Overlook, 05/29/2008
A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr--and many innocents will ...
more
Muhajababes
by
Allegra Stratton
Melville House, 06/01/2008
Two-thirds of the Middle East’s population is under twenty-five, with an explosive growth in the number of college graduates. Allegra Stratton, a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
No One You Know
by
Michelle Richmond
Delacorte Press, 06/01/2008
All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila's sister—until the day Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered, and the shape of ...
more
Noman: Book Three of the Noble Warriors
by
William Nicholson
Harcourt Children's Books, 06/01/2008
The safe haven of the Noble Warriors has been demolished and the Nomana have disbanded. When a young boy preaching peace and joy mesmerizes all who ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dead and the Gone
by
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Harcourt Children's Books, 06/01/2008
Susan Beth Pfeffer’s
Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last of the High Kings
by
Kate Thompson
HarperTeen, 06/01/2008
Traveling to the land of eternal youth was the only way J.J. Liddy could stop time from leaking from his world to T'ir na n'Og. But fifteen years ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Magic Thief
by
Sarah Prineas
HarperCollins Children's Books, 06/01/2008
In a city that runs on a dwindling supply of magic, a young boy is drawn into a life of wizardry and adventure. Conn should have dropped dead the day ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2008
One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to...
more
Thrillers
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
by
Ahmed Rashid
Viking, 06/03/2008
Ahmed Rashid is 'Pakistan's best and bravest reporter' (
Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
by
Fred Burton
Random House, 06/03/2008
For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Nothing To Lose: Jack Reacher Series #12
by
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 06/03/2008
Two small towns in the middle of nowhere Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ...
more
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by
Michael Dobbs
Knopf, 06/03/2008
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Outside Beauty
by
Cynthia Kadohata
Atheneum Books, 06/03/2008
"My mother had four daughters by four different men."
There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen ...
more
Plague Ship: A Novel of the Oregon Files
by
Clive Cussler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/03/2008
For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside but, on the inside, packed ...
more
Resolution
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/03/2008
After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust ...
more
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by
Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Doubleday, 06/03/2008
Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone '...
more
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
by
Mark Kurlansky
Ballantine Books, 06/03/2008
The culture of fishing is vanishing, and consequently, coastal societies are changing in unprecedented ways. The once thriving fishing communities of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Other
by
David Guterson
Knopf, 06/03/2008
From the author of the best-selling
Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two ...
more
The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel
by
Alan Furst
Random House, 06/03/2008
Alan Furst delivers a stunning, action-packed new novel of espionage and dangerous liasions set in Warsaw, Silesia and Paris. The hero is a French ...
more
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
by
Leonie Swann
Crown, 06/03/2008
On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ...
more
Thrillers
Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
by
Lynn Spencer
Free Press, 06/03/2008
On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced "severe clear," in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dear American Airlines: A Novel
by
Jonathan Miles
Houghton Mifflin, 06/05/2008
From the cocktails columnist of the New York Times, the scathingly funny, deeply moving story of a stranded passenger whose enraged letter of ...
more
Savage Night
by
Allan Guthrie
Harcourt, 06/09/2008
How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love?
Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a way to make ...
more
The Size of the World: A Novel
by
Joan Silber
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2008
A richly imagined novel—set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America—about men and women whose jolting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
An Absolute Scandal
by
Penny Vincenzi
Doubleday, 06/10/2008
Set during the boom-and-bust years of the 1980s,
An Absolute Scandal follows the lives of a group of people drawn together by their mutual monetary ...
more
Literary Fiction
Blackman's Coffin: A Sam Blackman Mystery
by
Mark de Castrique
Poisoned Pen Press, 06/10/2008
Sam Blackman is an angry man. A Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq. His ...
more
Cost: A Novel
by
Roxana Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/10/2008
When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile ...
more
How Perfect Is That
by
Sarah Bird
Knopf, 06/10/2008
Blythe Young—a wannabe Texas princess, a heroine as plucky, driven, and desperate as Vanity Fair’s Becky Sharp—is plummeting ...
more
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
by
Sasa Stanisic
Grove Press, 06/10/2008
For young Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ, his grandfather Slavko’s credo--“the most valuable gift of all is invention, imagination is your ...
more
Love Today: Stories
by
Maxim Biller, translated by Anthea Bell
Simon & Schuster, 06/10/2008
Following the appearance of two stories in The New Yorker, German author, playwright, and journalist Maxim Biller makes his English-language debut ...
more
Missy
by
Chris Hannan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/10/2008
Missy is laudanum, or liquid opium. Missy is Dol McQueen, a nineteen-year-old “flash-girl” traveling the arduous wagon trail from San ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel
by
Ruth Rendell
Crown Journeys, 06/10/2008
When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at ...
more
The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
by
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 06/10/2008
When Lincoln's estranged cousin Arthur Rhyme is arrested on murder charges, the case is perfect -- too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur's home ...
more
The Lost Art
by
Simon Morden
David Fickling Books, 06/10/2008
A Millennium after the formidable war machines of the User cultures devoured entire civilizations and rewrote planetary geography, Earth is in the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Monster of Florence
by
Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing, 06/10/2008
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century ...
more
The Open Door
by
Elizabeth Maguire
Other Press, 06/10/2008
The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read and respected ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wizard Heir: The Heir Chronicles #2
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Hyperion Books for Children, 06/10/2008
Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. And it's not his ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
by
Kathryn Harrison
Random House, 06/10/2008
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, ...
more
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
by
Felix Dennis
Portfolio, 06/12/2008
Starting as a college dropout with no family money, Felix Dennis made himself the sixty-fifth richest individual in the U.K. And had a blast in the ...
more
Looks
by
Madeleine George
Penguin Young Readers Group, 06/12/2008
An unforgettable debut novel about the way we look at others, and the way we see ourselves.
Meghan Ball is both the most visible and the most invisible...
more
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
by
Kenneth R. Miller
Viking, 06/12/2008
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the debate over Darwin's theory of evolution is nearly as contentious as it was in the notorious Scopes trial...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Dirty Secrets Club: A Novel
by
Meg Gardiner
Dutton, 06/12/2008
Recently Stephen King devoted an entire
Entertainment Weekly column to Meg Gardiner, proclaiming her "as good as Michael Connelly and far better than ...
more
The Secret Scripture
by
Sebastian Barry
Viking, 06/12/2008
As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, ...
more
Heavenly Pleasures: A Corinna Chapman Mystery
by
Kerry Greenwood
Poisoned Pen Press, 06/15/2008
Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the former addict she rescued from her alleyway, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her ...
more
Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
by
Jane Yolen
Charlesbridge, 06/15/2008
Throughout the ages, women from all classes and walks of life turned to pirating out of necessity, desperation, or greed. Acclaimed author Jane Yolen ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
by
William Hague
Harcourt, 06/16/2008
Wilberforce, born to a prosperous family, chose a life of public service and adherence to Evangelical values over the comfortable merchant existence ...
more
Ivy
by
Julie Hearn
Ginee Seo Books, 06/17/2008
Ivy is used to being overlooked. The youngest in a family of thieves, scoundrels, and roustabouts, the girl with the flame-colored hair and odd-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Petite Anglaise
by
Catherine Sanderson
Spiegel & Grau, 06/17/2008
She has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views....
more
Stealing Athena
by
Karen Essex
Doubleday, 06/17/2008
The Elgin Marbles have been displayed in the British Museum for nearly two hundred years, and for just as long they have been the center of a raging ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Beach House
by
Jane Green
Viking, 06/17/2008
Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn’t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old...
more
The Book of Chameleons: A Novel
by
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Simon & Schuster, 06/17/2008
Paperback Original. This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity...
more
The Sister
by
Poppy Adams
Knopf, 06/17/2008
From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set ...
more
The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel
by
Meg Waite Clayton
Ballantine Books, 06/17/2008
Published in paperback: May 5, 2009
For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their ...
more
Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror
by
Benjamin Wittes
Penguin Press, 06/19/2008
Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing not to Al Qaeda but to its own ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Made in the USA
by
Billie Letts
Grand Central Publishing, 06/19/2008
Luttie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father ...
more
More Than It Hurts You
by
Darin Strauss
Dutton, 06/19/2008
Josh Goldin was savoring a Friday afternoon break in the coffee room, harmlessly flirting with coworkers while anticipating the weekend at home where ...
more
The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel
by
David Bajo
Viking, 06/19/2008
For most of his adult life - through two marriages and countless travels - the mathematician Philip Mazyrk has carried on a love affair with Irma ...
more
Alfred Kropp: The Thirteenth Skull
by
Rick Yancey
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 06/24/2008
Alfred Kropp lost—then found—the legendary sword Excalibur. Then he defeated King Paimon, arguably the nastiest of demons ever to roam the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
City of Time
by
Eoin Mcnamee
Wendy Lamb Books, 06/24/2008
Cati, The Bold Watcher readers met in
The Navigator, returns from the shadows of time to summon Owen and Dr. Diamond, for time is literally running ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by
Sophocles
Penguin Classics, 06/24/2008
This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by...
more
Literary Fiction
Green: Your Place in the New Energy Revolution
by
Jane Hoffman
Palgrave Macmillan, 06/24/2008
Green illustrates and sheds new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Moving Forward: Taking the Lead in Your Life
by
Dave Pelzer
Center Street, 06/24/2008
Self-help expert Dave Pelzer teaches readers how to let go of the past and use negative experiences to make them stronger when tackling the future.
...
more
Advice
Singularity: A Sarah Armstrong Mystery
by
Kathryn Casey
Minotaur Books, 06/24/2008
Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it's like to be in a sticky situation. As a single mother and one of the few female Rangers in Texas history, she ...
more
TailSpin: FBI Series #12
by
Catherine Coulter
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/24/2008
But they don't make it.
In San Francisco, married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock take an early morning phone call from their ...
more
Thrillers
The Lemur: A Novel
by
Benjamin Black
Picador, 06/24/2008
John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in...
more
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
by
Michael Scott
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 06/24/2008
After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What Was Lost
by
Catherine O'Flynn
Henry Holt and Company, 06/24/2008
Paperback Original. A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl—long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and...
more
Brida: A Novel
by
Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/01/2008
This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching...
more
Literary Fiction
Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel
by
Robert Crais
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2008
Elvis was a hero when he cleared an innocent man of a murder charge. But when that innocent man is found dead three years later holding photos of the ...
more
Close
by
Martina Cole
Grand Central Publishing, 07/01/2008
Patrick Brodie is on the way up. He is a risk-taker like his alcoholic father, and knows exactly how far he is prepared to go to get what he wants. ...
more
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
by
Roger Crowley
Random House Reader's Circle, 07/01/2008
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hit and Run: A John Keller Mystery
by
Lawrence Block
William Morrow, 07/01/2008
Keller's a hit man. For years now he's had places to go and people to kill.
But enough is enough. He's got money in the bank and just one last job...
more
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Ecco, 07/01/2008
What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Illegal Action
by
Stella Rimington
Knopf, 07/01/2008
Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage—the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has ...
more
Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
by
Laurie A. Helgoe
Sourcebooks, 07/01/2008
Roughly half of Americans are introverts - people who thrive on solitude and the inner world of ideas and meaning.
Introvert Power introduces readers ...
more
Advice
My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 07/01/2008
"Dysfunctional families are all alike. Ditto 'survivors.'"
So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, ...
more
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
by
David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2008
They were the first televised Olympics. The first doping scandal occurred there. Civil rights was an enormous issue, with black athletes emerging as ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Santa Claus in Baghdad: Stories About Teens in the Arab World
by
Elsa Marston
Indiana University Press, 07/01/2008
What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, ...
more
The Condition: A Novel
by
Jennifer Haigh
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/01/2008
The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. The year is 1976, and the ...
more
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
by
Edward Dolnick
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/01/2008
As riveting as a World War II thriller,
The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to ...
more
The Fourth Watcher: A Novel of Bangkok
by
Timothy Hallinan
William Morrow, 07/01/2008
Travel writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his
Looking for Trouble series of travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with it, and ...
more
The Groom to Have Been
by
Saher Alam
Spiegel & Grau, 07/01/2008
A love story inspired by
The Age of Innocence, about a young man and woman thwarted by tradition and the fears of a world suddenly defined by tragedy
...
more
The Last Oracle: A Novel
by
James Rollins
William Morrow, 07/01/2008
What if you could bioengineer the next great world prophet: scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Muhammad, or the next Jesus? Would it ...
more
Thrillers
The Last Patriot: A Thriller
by
Brad Thor
Atria Books, 07/01/2008
June 632 A.D.: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling ...
more
Thrillers
The Paths of the Air: Hawkenlye Series
by
Alys Clare
Severn House, 07/01/2008
The new novel in the popular Hawkenlye series:
Autumn 1196. A secretive stranger arrives at New Winnowlands, and Sir Josse d'Acquin guesses that he...
more
Historical Fiction
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
by
Philip Ball
Harper, 07/01/2008
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Art in America: A Novel
by
Ron McLarty
Viking, 07/03/2008
Steven Kearney is a bumbling, overweight writer who has produced thousands of pages of novels, plays, and poems - not a single one of which has ever ...
more
Undiscovered Country: A Novel
by
Lin Enger
Little Brown & Company, 07/03/2008
Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his...
more
Why I Came West: A Memoir
by
Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin, 07/03/2008
A passionate memoir about the great divides in Rick Bass's beloved Yaak Valley, the West as a whole, and himself.
A poignant look at the thirty-year ...
more
Ancient Highway: A Novel
by
Bret Lott
Random House, 07/08/2008
Ancient Highway brilliantly weaves together the hopes and regrets of three characters from three generations as they reconcile who they are and who ...
more
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times
by
Susan Quinn
Walker & Company, 07/08/2008
A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA’s Federal Theater Project.
Under the direction ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
by
Mark Levine
Three Rivers, 07/08/2008
An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Killer View
by
Ridley Pearson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/08/2008
When a skier goes missing at Sun Valley's Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming quickly assembles his crack search-and-rescue team and heads out into ...
more
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid.
by
J. Maarten Troost
Broadway Books, 07/08/2008
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Palace Council
by
Stephen L. Carter
Knopf, 07/08/2008
In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the ...
more
Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery
by
P. L. Gaus
Ohio University Press, 07/08/2008
As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm ...
more
Mysteries
Shadows in the Twilight
by
Henning Mankell
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 07/08/2008
Joel will soon be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he's wrong. One day, an incident that could easily ...
more
Literary Fiction
So Long at the Fair
by
Christina Schwarz
Doubleday, 07/08/2008
The bestselling author of
Drowning Ruth returns to the small-town Wisconsin she so brilliantly evoked with this gripping novel about love, marriage, ...
more
Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2008
Much beloved Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux is back again, this time in the brand new setting of the rugged Montana mountains.
Mysteries
Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West
by
Helen Tse
St. Martin's Press, 07/08/2008
Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women.
Their ...
more
The Sand Castle
by
Rita Mae Brown
Grove Press, 07/08/2008
Since the publication of
Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, Rita Mae Brown has been a major American literary voice and a best-selling author. In
The Sand ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire
by
Noelle Oxenhandler
Random House, 07/08/2008
One New Year's Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house ...
more
Time Is a River
by
Mary Alice Monroe
Pocket Books, 07/08/2008
With a strong, warm voice that brings the South to life,
New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe writes richly textured stories that ...
more
Volk's Shadow: A Novel
by
Brent Ghelfi
Henry Holt and Company, 07/08/2008
The headquarters of an American oil company hemorrhages chemical-pink smoke into the Moscow night, the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack. A ...
more
Would You
by
Marthe Jocelyn
Wendy Lamb Books, 07/08/2008
Would you rather know what's going to happen or not know?
A summer night. A Saturday. For Natalie's amazing older sister, Claire, this summer is ...
more
Findings: Faye Longchamp Mysteries, No. 4
by
Mary Anna Evans
Poisoned Pen Press, 07/10/2008
Faye Longchamp is overjoyed to be paid to do archaeological work she would have done anyway—excavating a site that was once her family's. That ...
more
Queen of the Flowers: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by
Kerry Greenwood
Poisoned Pen Press, 07/10/2008
St. Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all...
more
Mysteries
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
by
Kenneth Pollack
Random House, 07/15/2008
The greatest danger to America's peace and prosperity, notes leading Middle East policy analyst Kenneth M. Pollack, lies in the political repression, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rules of Deception
by
Christopher Reich
Doubleday, 07/15/2008
Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, ...
more
Say Goodbye
by
Lisa Gardner
Bantam Books, 07/15/2008
Come into my parlor . . .
For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about ...
more
Thrillers
Stalking Susan
by
Julie Kramer
Doubleday, 07/15/2008
Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on ...
more
Still Waters: A Mystery
by
Nigel McCrery
Pantheon Books, 07/15/2008
When the badly decayed body of an elderly woman is unearthed, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, are called in on...
more
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
by
Jane Mayer
Doubleday, 07/15/2008
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alive in Necropolis
by
Doug Dorst
Riverhead Books, 07/17/2008
A fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace - and maintain a grip on reality - ...
more
Collision
by
Jeff Abbott
Dutton, 07/17/2008
Collision is the story of two men living very different lives—one, a successful corporate consultant who is mourning the murder of his new bride;...
more
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
by
Daniel Gardner
Dutton, 07/17/2008
From terror attacks to the war on terror, real estate bubbles to the price of oil, sexual predators to poisoned food from China, our list of fears is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
All About Lulu
by
Jonathan Evison
Soft Skull Press, 07/21/2008
Paperback Original.
Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Seconds: An Inspector Sejer Mystery
by
Karin Fossum
Harcourt, 07/21/2008
Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five ...
more
Mysteries
Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story
by
Abbe Smith
Palgrave Macmillan, 07/22/2008
A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How Far Is the Ocean from Here: A Novel
by
Amy Shearn
Shaye Areheart Books, 07/22/2008
A beautiful debut novel that contemplates relationships, responsibility, betrayal, and longing.
Susannah Prue is a young, unmarried surrogate ...
more
L'Assassin
by
Peter Steiner
Minotaur Books, 07/22/2008
Louis Morgon is living a quiet life of good food, good wine, and good friends. When his house is burglarized, he thinks nothing of it. But the burglar...
more
Moscow Rules
by
Daniel Silva
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/22/2008
The death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow ...
more
The Veil of Gold
by
Kim Wilkins
Tom Doherty Associates, 07/22/2008
When an ancient gold bear is found walled up in a dilapidated St. Petersburg bathhouse, researcher Daniel St. Clair and his frosty colleague Em ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books
by
Slavoj Zizek
Picador, 07/22/2008
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When We Were Romans: A Novel
by
Matthew Kneale
Nan A. Talese, 07/22/2008
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah ...
more
Stand the Storm: A Novel
by
Breena Clarke
Little Brown & Company, 07/28/2008
Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Vicious Circle
by
Mike Carey
Grand Central Publishing, 07/28/2008
Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after the case of the Bonnington Archive ghost convinced him that he really can do some good with his ...
more
Black and White and Dead All Over
by
John Darnton
Knopf, 07/29/2008
A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel that blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in John Darnton’s best-...
more
Fractured
by
Karin Slaughter
Delacorte Press, 07/29/2008
With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a ...
more
Mosquito
by
Roma Tearne
Europa Editions, 07/29/2008
Shortlisted for the Costa (Whitbread) 2007 First Novel Award. Published in the USA as a paperback original.
Set adrift by the recent death of ...
more
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by
Tom Vanderbilt
Knopf, 07/29/2008
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
by
Philip Delves Broughton
Penguin Press, 07/31/2008
In the century since its founding, Harvard Business School has become the single most influential institution in global business. Twenty percent of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Pharmakon
by
Dirk Wittenborn
Viking, 07/31/2008
William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness?and that can make him a ...
more
Alfred and Emily
by
Doris Lessing
Harper, 08/01/2008
I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we...
more
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
by
Noah Andre Trudeau
Harper, 08/01/2008
Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Book Stops Here: A Mobile Library Mystery
by
Ian Sansom
HarperCollins Publishers, 08/01/2008
Disgruntled, disheveled, fish-out-of-water mobile librarian Israel Armstrong is finally going home to London, rattling along with his irascible ...
more
The Lace Reader
by
Brunonia Barry
William Morrow, 08/01/2008
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of
The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns ...
more
The Matchmaker of Perigord: A Novel
by
Julia Stuart
HarperPaperbacks, 08/01/2008
Barber Guillaume Ladoucette has always enjoyed great success in his tiny village in southwestern France, catering to the tonsorial needs of Amour-sur...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book
by
Faye Kellerman
William Morrow, 08/01/2008
Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style ...
more
Literary Fiction
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
by
Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway
Harper, 08/01/2008
More than fifteen years since its original publication, the number one New York Times bestseller
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young is still ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Travel Writing
by
Peter Ferry
Harcourt, 08/04/2008
Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago, and moonlights as a travel writer. On ...
more
Forced Out: A Novel
by
Stephen Frey
Atria Books, 08/05/2008
Sarasota, Florida: Forced to retire from his job as a scout for the New York Yankees, Jack Barrett is just getting by in a small Florida town when his...
more
Thrillers
Foreign Body
by
Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/05/2008
Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA, just completing an elective in general surgery, whose world is shattered during a break ...
more
Holding My Breath: A Novel
by
Sidura Ludwig
Shaye Areheart Books, 08/05/2008
The year is 1947. The world has survived the Second Great War, and in the north end of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saul and Goldie Levy are married at Royal ...
more
Iodine: A Novel
by
Haven Kimmel
Free Press, 08/05/2008
Haven Kimmel, the #1
New York Times bestselling author, has long attracted legions of fans for her insightful, humane portraits of outsiders ...
more
Lie Down with the Devil: Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries
by
Linda Barnes
Minotaur Books, 08/05/2008
Bestseller and multiple award–winning author Linda Barnes returns with the most personal case to date for her popular Boston PI, Carlotta Carlyle...
more
No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers
by
Michael Novak
Doubleday, 08/05/2008
Surveying the contemporary religious landscape, the division between atheist and believer seems stark. However, having long struggled to understand ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
by
Diane E. Levin
Ballantine Books, 08/05/2008
Thong panties, padded bras, and risqué Halloween costumes for young girls. T-shirts that boast “Chick Magnet” for toddler boys. Sexy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Cabinet of Wonders: The Kronos Chronicles: Book I
by
Marie Rutkoski
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2008
Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it’s never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power
by
Jonathan Mahler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2008
The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law professor who, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Geography of Love: A Memoir
by
Glenda Burgess
Broadway Books, 08/05/2008
“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--...more
The Last Theorem
by
Arthur C. Clarke
Del Rey, 08/05/2008
The Last Theorem is a story of one man’s mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method. It is also a ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night Villa
by
Carol Goodman
Random House Reader's Circle, 08/05/2008
Paperback Original. An evocative tale of intrigue, romance, and treachery, Carol Goodman’s spellbinding new novel,
The Night Villa, follows the ...
more
The Shadow Walker
by
Michael Walters
Berkley Books, 08/05/2008
As winter falls upon the streets of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, a serial killer is just getting warmed up. When the mutilated body of a fourth victim is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
by
Lorri Glover
Henry Holt and Company, 08/05/2008
The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
by
Thomas Frank
Metropolitan Books, 08/05/2008
In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in
The Wrecking ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues
by
Jessamyn Conrad
Arcade Publishing, 08/06/2008
It's a very exciting time in American politics. Voter turnout in primaries and caucuses across the nation have shattered old records. More than ever, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Forsaken Soul: A Medeival Mystery
by
Priscilla Royal
Poisoned Pen Press, 08/10/2008
The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England - except in the village of Tyndal where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn.
...
more
A Blessed Child
by
Linn Ullmann
Knopf, 08/12/2008
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, ...
more
City at the End of Time
by
Greg Bear
Del Rey, 08/12/2008
Do you dream of a city at the end of time?
In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people–Ginny, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One More Year: Stories
by
Sana Krasikov
Spiegel & Grau, 08/12/2008
Every so often a new writer appears who is wiser than her years would suggest, whose flesh-and-blood characters embody more experience than a young ...
more
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children
by
Philip Shabecoff
Random House, 08/12/2008
In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Dragon Heir: The Heir Chronicles #3
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Hyperion Books for Children, 08/12/2008
The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
by
Bing West
Random House, 08/12/2008
During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled in women’s clothes. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Off Season
by
Anne Rivers Siddons
Grand Central Publishing, 08/13/2008
For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and ...
more
Good People
by
Marcus Sakey
Dutton, 08/14/2008
A family, and the security to enjoy it: that's all Tom and Anna Reed ever wanted. But years of infertility treatments, including four failed attempts ...
more
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
by
Moustafa Bayoumi
Penguin Press, 08/14/2008
Arab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed "problem" of American society, their lives no better understood than those of African ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Skeleton Lake
by
Mike Doogan
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/14/2008
Twenty years ago, Alaska was a different place - rougher, more violent. Danny Shirtleff was the kind of cop needed to keep the lid on Anchorage, never...
more
The King's Gold
by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/14/2008
Arturo Pérez-Reverte has enthralled readers and critics around the globe with his Captain Alatriste series. Having sold four and a half million ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Little Book
by
Selden Edwards
Dutton, 08/14/2008
An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making,
The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ...
more
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
by
Fernando Baez
Atlas & Co, 08/18/2008
A best-seller in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil: the first-ever world history of the destruction of books.
A product of ten years of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin, 08/18/2008
Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three ...
more
First Daughter
by
Eric Van Lustbader
Forge Books, 08/19/2008
Jack McClure has had a troubled life. His dyslexia always made him feel like an outsider. He escaped from an abusive home as a teenager and lived by...
more
Thrillers
Man in the Dark: A Novel
by
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Company, 08/19/2008
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in ...
more
Rough Justice
by
Jack Higgins
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/19/2008
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named ...
more
Death's Half Acre: A Judge Deborah Knott Mystery
by
Margaret Maron
Grand Central Publishing, 08/20/2008
Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant...
more
Fresh Kills
by
Bill Loehfelm
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/21/2008
In
Fresh Kills, the murder of John Sanders, Sr. on a New York street corner reunites his estranged and abused children, John, Jr. and Julia. While ...
more
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
by
Joyce Tyldesley
Basic Books, 08/25/2008
The Romans regarded her as “fatale monstrum”—a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust
by
Theodore S. Hamerow
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/25/2008
The Allies stood by and watched Nazi Germany imprison and then murder six million Jews during World War II. How could the unthinkable have been ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Badlands: A Novel of Suspense
by
Richard Montanari
Ballantine Books, 08/26/2008
Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are working a new beat: the Special Investigations Unit, aka the cold case squad. ...
more
Thrillers
Devil Bones: Temperance Brennan Series #11
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 08/26/2008
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones...
more
Identical
by
Ellen Hopkins
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 08/26/2008
Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place?
For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose presence on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Mike's Election Guide 2008
by
Michael Moore
Grand Central Publishing, 08/26/2008
Papeback Original. In his first book in five years, Michael Moore brings us the definitive guide to the 2008 election.
After a disastrous war, the ...
more
Other
The Door of No Return
by
Sarah Mussi
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 08/26/2008
Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him that he's the descendant of African kings, whose treasure was stolen when his ancestors were sold into ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Road Home: A Novel
by
Rose Tremain
Little Brown & Company, 08/26/2008
In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and ...
more
The Various Flavors of Coffee
by
Anthony Capella
Bantam Books, 08/26/2008
When a woman gives a man coffee, it is a way of showing her desire.
—Abyssinian proverb.
It was a cup of coffee that changed Robert Wallis’...
more
A Friend Like Henry: The Remarkable True Story of an Autistic Boy and the Dog That Unlocked His World
by
Nuala Gardner
Sourcebooks, 09/01/2008
The remarkable true story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world. When Jamie and Nuala Gardner chose a puppy for their son, Dale, ...
more
Angel's Tip
by
Alafair Burke
Harper, 09/01/2008
Fresh-faced Indiana college student Chelsea Hart is so excited to spend the final hours of her spring break in the VIP room of an elite New York City ...
more
Dear Everybody
by
Michael Kimball
Alma Books, 09/01/2008
Tracing the nuances of a short-lived life, this involving and sympathetically written novel maintains a tone of finely judged tension between ...
more
Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room)
by
Ysabeau S. Wilce
Harcourt Children's Books, 09/01/2008
Flora Fyrdraaca wants nothing more than to be a ranger, and for that she must master the magickal—and dangerous—language of Gramatica. But ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Goldengrove: A Novel
by
Francine Prose
Harper, 09/01/2008
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As...
more
Green Monster: A Sam Skarda Mystery
by
Rick Shefchik
Poisoned Pen Press, 09/01/2008
After a second World Championship in four years, the Boston Red Sox have finally buried the Curse of the Bambino—or have they? Sox owner Louis ...
more
Gully's Travels
by
Tor Seidler
Michael di Capua Books, 09/01/2008
They even spend their summers in Paris! But it's in Paris that his master, Professor Rattigan, falls in love with a woman who turns out to be allergic...
more
Travel & Adventure
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
by
Michael Kimmel
Harper, 09/01/2008
Why do so many guys seem stuck between adolescence and adulthood? Why do so many of them fail to launch? Just what is going on with America's young ...
more
Jellicoe Road
by
Melina Marchetta
HarperTeen, 09/01/2008
Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the ...
more
Resistance
by
Agnes Humbert
Bloomsbury USA, 09/01/2008
As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnès Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Ancient Ship
by
Wei Zhang
Harper Perennial, 09/01/2008
Paperback Original.
Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, Zhang Wei's novel is the story of three ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Porcupine Year
by
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/01/2008
When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey. They travel by canoe westward from the shores of Lake Superior...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Yesterday's Weather: Stories
by
Anne Enright
Grove Press, 09/01/2008
Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright's novel
The Gathering went on to become a national best seller acclaimed for its electrifying prose ...
more
A Cure for Night
by
Justin Peacock
Doubleday, 09/02/2008
In Brooklyn’s criminal courts, justice often depends on who has the better story to tell.
“That’s what the criminal law is: it's how ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
American Wife: A Novel
by
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House Reader's Circle, 09/02/2008
On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that ...
more
Beside a Burning Sea
by
John Shors
NAL, 09/02/2008
Paperback Original. One moment, the World War II hospital ship
Benevolence was cruising through the Pacific. In the next, she was engulfed in chaos, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Blood Memory
by
Margaret Coel
Berkley Books, 09/02/2008
Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the
Journal, one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne ...
more
Borderlands: An Inspector Devlin Mystery
by
Brian McGilloway
Minotaur Books, 09/02/2008
Winter 2002. The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters
by
Bill Tancer
Hyperion, 09/02/2008
What time of year do teenage girls search for prom dresses online? How does the quick adoption of technology affect business success (and how is that ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Crime: A Novel
by
Irvine Welsh
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/02/2008
In the wake of a nasty child-murder case, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh PD has suffered a full-scale breakdown. He's been placed on ...
more
Godchildren
by
Nicholas Coleridge
Thomas Dunne Books, 09/02/2008
All the godchildren, looking back on that fateful dinner, remembered it in the same way: the vacant wooden throne at the head of the table, the huge ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by
Julian Barnes
Knopf, 09/02/2008
If the fear of death is "the most rational thing in the world," how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks...
more
Polanski: A Biography
by
Christopher Sandford
Palgrave Macmillan, 09/02/2008
This dramatic account weaves together the rich and complex life of the celebrated and controversial film director, Holocaust survivor, and exile, ...
more
Steinbeck's Ghost
by
Lewis Buzbee
Feiwel & Friends, 09/02/2008
It’s been two months since Travis’s family moved to a development so new that it seems totally unreal. His parents are working harder now, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sweetheart
by
Chelsea Cain
Minotaur Books, 09/02/2008
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Portland’s Forest Park, Archie is reminded of the last time they found a body there, more than a ...
more
The Book of Lies
by
Brad Meltzer
Grand Central Publishing, 09/02/2008
In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain ...
more
The Crow Road
by
Iain Banks
MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 09/02/2008
"It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's
Mass in B Minor, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
by
Steven Stoll
Hill and Wang, 09/02/2008
Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by
Helene Cooper
Simon & Schuster, 09/02/2008
Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel
by
Matthew Quick
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/02/2008
The Silver Linings Playbook is the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife’...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book
by
Michael Ratner
New Press, 09/02/2008
The evidence that the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes, presented in the form of a court case brought by one of the premier civil rights ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Supreme Courtship
by
Christopher Buckley
Twelve Books, 09/03/2008
In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, ...
more
The Dragonfly Pool
by
Eva Ibbotson
Dutton Children's Books, 09/04/2008
At first Tally doesn't want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But she soon discovers that it is a wonderful place where freedom and self-...
more
Literary Fiction
The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy
by
David M. Smick
Portfolio, 09/04/2008
The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman's
The World Is Flat left off, taking readers on an insider's tour through the private offices of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by
Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/08/2008
“Green is the new red, white, and blue,” Friedman declares, and proposes that an ambitious national strategy--which he calls geo-greenism--...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Losing Hurts Twice as Bad: The Four Stages to Moving Beyond Iraq
by
Christopher J. Fettweis
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/08/2008
Now longer than the Civil War, America's conflict in Iraq seems to have no end in sight. A malaise, perhaps greater than that engendered by Vietnam, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
by
Asne Seierstad
Basic Books, 09/08/2008
n the early hours of New Year’s 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Toss of a Lemon
by
Padma Viswanathan
Harcourt, 09/08/2008
In a fiction debut to rival
The God of Small Things, Padma Viswanathan gives us a richly detailed and intimate vision of an India we’ve never ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
by
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 09/08/2008
Bob Woodward's fourth book about the Bush presidency at war declassifies the secrets of America's political and military involvement in Iraq.
History, Current Affairs and Religion
World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
by
Edward Paice
Pegasus Books, 09/08/2008
On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Anathem
by
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 09/09/2008
Anathem, the latest invention by the
New York Times bestselling author of
Cryptonomicon and
The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bog Child
by
Siobhan Dowd
David Fickling Books, 09/09/2008
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries ...
more
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
by
Annie Proulx
Scribner, 09/09/2008
"Every ranch...had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys smiling, sure in their risks...
more
Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine
by
David Newman
Scribner, 09/09/2008
Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Reagan: The Hollywood Years
by
Marc Eliot
Harmony Books, 09/09/2008
Ronald Reagan was one of the most powerful and popular American presidents. The key to understanding his political success and the remarkable ...
more
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
by
Thomas Hager
Harmony Books, 09/09/2008
At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Desert Contract: A Novel
by
John Lathrop
Scribner, 09/09/2008
Late at night on the eleventh-floor balcony of a deserted building on the Persian Gulf, American businessman Steve Kemp finds himself falling back in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One
by
Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press, 09/09/2008
Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by
Somaly Mam
Spiegel & Grau, 09/09/2008
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
by
Peg Tyre
Crown, 09/09/2008
From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Hunger Games
by
Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, 09/14/2008
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Quiet Adjustment: A Novel
by
Benjamin Markovits
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/15/2008
A psychological thriller of passionate attachment and emotional cruelty, involving a love triangle between Lord Byron, his half-sister, and his wife.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cold in Hand
by
John Harvey
Harcourt, 09/15/2008
It's Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead.
Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, ...
more
Ritual: A Novel
by
Mo Hayder
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/15/2008
Mo Hayder's previous novels
The Devil of Nanking and
The Treatment have ranked her among the most exciting and provocative thriller writers now ...
more
The Clinch Knot
by
John Galligan
Bleak House Books, 09/15/2008
The Dog is in Livingston, Montana, daydreaming about fishing the Stone and, as usual, subsisting on Swisher Sweets, vodka-Tang, and the hope that ...
more
Mysteries
The Numerati
by
Stephen Baker
Houghton Mifflin, 09/15/2008
An urgent look at how a global math elite is predicting and altering our behavior -- at work, at the mall, and in bed.
Every day we produce loads ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
by
Bart Gellman
Penguin Press, 09/16/2008
Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before - yet concealing most of his work from ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
by
Philip Dray
Houghton Mifflin, 09/16/2008
In this grand and compelling new history of Reconstruction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury USA, 09/16/2008
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when “there was no ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
In Hovering Flight
by
Joyce Hinnefeld
Unbridled Books, 09/16/2008
At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh. The year is 2002. Though Addie and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Indignation
by
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 09/16/2008
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.
.
It is 1951 in America, the second...
more
Larry and the Meaning of Life
by
Janet Tashjian
Henry Holt and Company, 09/16/2008
Josh Swensen (otherwise known as Larry) can’t seem to get off the couch. His usual overactive imagination and save-the-world mindset have all but...
more
Advice
Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel (Lake Wobegon Novels)
by
Garrison Keillor
Viking, 09/16/2008
Clint Bunsen is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon - the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-...
more
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
by
Ariel Sabar
Algonquin Books, 09/16/2008
In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Butt: A Novel
by
Will Self
Bloomsbury USA, 09/16/2008
When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not...
more
Literary Fiction
The Heretic Queen: A Novel
by
Michelle Moran
Crown, 09/16/2008
In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past and remake history.
The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Killing Circle: A Novel
by
Andrew Pyper
Minotaur Books, 09/16/2008
When Patrick Rush, journalist, single father, and failed novelist, decides to join a creative writing circle, it seems a fertile time for the ...
more
The Other Queen: A Novel
by
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 09/16/2008
Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Exit Music
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 09/17/2008
It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before ...
more
Chalice
by
Robin McKinley
Putnam Juvenile, 09/18/2008
As the newly appointed Chalice, Mirasol is the most important member of the Master's Circle. It is her duty to bind the Circle, the land and its ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Impossible
by
Nancy Werlin
The Dial Press, 09/18/2008
Lucy has nine months to break an ancient curse in order to save both herself and her unborn daughter.
Inspired by the ballad 'Scarborough Fair', ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
by
Jack Kerouac
Viking, 09/18/2008
Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Fifth Avenue
by
Candace Bushnell
Voice, 09/22/2008
From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City...
more
The Sealed Letter
by
Emma Donoghue
Harcourt, 09/22/2008
Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women’s movement, independent of mind but naively ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Heat Lightning: A Virgil Flowers Novel
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/23/2008
Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he's been around the block a few times, and he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. He's wrong.
...
more
Thrillers
Thrillers
Letter to My Daughter
by
Maya Angelou
Random House, 09/23/2008
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.
...
more
Other
Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know
by
Randall Stross
Free Press, 09/23/2008
Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive "Googleplex," acclaimed
New York Times columnist Randall Stross takes readers deep ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by
Hooman Majd
Doubleday, 09/23/2008
The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries
by
Henning Mankell
New Press, 09/23/2008
The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings, told in five gripping short ...
more
The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum
by
Kathleen Krull
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/23/2008
Kathleen Krull's lively text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
by
Ken Silverstein
Random House Reader's Circle, 09/23/2008
“As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price–it’s not personal, just business.”
–a ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by
Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Grand Central Publishing, 09/24/2008
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, ...
more
Friends in High Places
by
Donna Leon
Penguin Books, 09/26/2008
Paperback original. Donna Leon's sophisticated Commissario Brunetti series has won her legions of fans over the years. In
Friends in High Places, ...
more
Mysteries
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by
Alice Schroeder
Bantam Books, 09/29/2008
The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Country Called Home
by
Kim Barnes
Knopf, 09/30/2008
It is 1960 when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, abandon a guaranteed future in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian ...
more
A Spoonful of Poison: Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 19
by
M. C. Beaton
Minotaur Books, 09/30/2008
Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisin’s detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for ...
more
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century
by
James Orbinski
Walker & Company, 09/30/2008
Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and dispassion and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Between Here and April
by
Deborah Copaken Kogan
Algonquin Books, 09/30/2008
When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. ...
more
Half a Crown
by
Jo Walton
Tor Books, 09/30/2008
In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain’s upper...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hounded to Death: A Novel
by
Rita Mae Brown
Ballantine Books, 09/30/2008
“Sister” Jane Arnold, esteemed master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, has traveled to Kentucky for one of the biggest events of the season: the ...
more
In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography
by
John Gartner
St. Martin's Press, 09/30/2008
William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age -- a dark horse that ...
more
The Catch: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther)
by
Archer Mayor
Minotaur Books, 09/30/2008
Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law ...
more
The Draining Lake: A Reykjavik Thriller
by
Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 09/30/2008
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton that is weighed down by a heavy radio device ...
more
The Ghost in Love: A Novel
by
Jonathan Carroll
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/30/2008
Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of
The Ghost in Love. A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But ...
more
The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
by
Tom Chaffin
Hill and Wang, 09/30/2008
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy’s
H. L. Hunley sank the USS
Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Messengers of Death: A Mystery in Provence (Commissaire Laviolette Mystery)
by
Pierre Magnan
Minotaur Books, 09/30/2008
An atmospheric thriller set, like all Magnan's work, in Provence, and featuring his engaging detective, Commissaire Laviolette. Tautly plotted and ...
more
The Other Side of Silence: A Novel of Suspense
by
Bill Pronzini
Walker & Company, 09/30/2008
“When Geena finally left him and filed for divorce, Fallon put the Encino house up for sale and took the last two weeks of his vacation from ...
more
The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel
by
David Liss
Random House, 09/30/2008
Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of ...
more
To Siberia: A Novel
by
Per Petterson
Graywolf Press, 09/30/2008
I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that ...more
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by
Robert M Pirsig
Mariner Books, 09/30/2008
Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle ...more
Biography/Memoir
Company of Liars
by
Karen Maitland
Delacorte Press, 10/01/2008
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales - an ingenious alchemy of history,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Fault Lines
by
Nancy Huston
Black Cat, 10/01/2008
A best seller in France, with over 400,000 copies sold, and currently being translated into eighteen languages,
Fault Lines is the new novel from ...
more
Hardly Knew Her: Stories
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 10/01/2008
Lippman sets many of the stories in this sterling anthology,
Hardly Knew Her, in familiar territory: her beloved Baltimore, from downtown to its ...
more
In the Dark: A Novel
by
Mark Billingham
Harper, 10/01/2008
A Deadly Crash.
A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car, which swerves onto the pavement and plows into a bus stop. It seems that ...
more
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
by
Maggie Stiefvater
Flux, 10/01/2008
Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. She's about to find out she's also a cloverhand—one who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes
by
Will Self
Viking, 10/01/2008
These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In "...
more
Nation
by
Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/01/2008
The sea has taken everything.
Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning
by
Kathleen Burk
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/01/2008
America's close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein
by
John W. Moffat
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/01/2008
Einstein's gravity theory—his general theory of relativity—has served as the basis for a series of astonishing cosmological discoveries. But...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Shoot the Lawyer Twice: A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery
by
Michael Bowen
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/01/2008
A verbal firefight between two colleagues at a literary conference escalates into burglary, theft, jury-tampering, forgery of an explosive papal ...
more
The Unnameables
by
Ellen Booraem
Harcourt Children's Books, 10/01/2008
Medford lives on a neat, orderly island called—simply—Island. Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
by
Brad Matsen
Twelve Books, 10/01/2008
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Pretty Monsters: Stories
by
Kelly Link
Viking, 10/02/2008
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing - and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
White Sands, Red Menace
by
Ellen Klages
Viking, 10/02/2008
It is 1946, and the events of
The Green Glass Sea have changed the world - and Dewey Kerrigan's life. She's now living near the White Sands Missile ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Quest of the Fair Unknown: The Squire's Tales
by
Gerald Morris
HarperCollins Children's Books, 10/06/2008
On her deathbed, Beaufils's mother leaves him with a quest and a clue: Find your father, a knight of King Arthur's Court. So Beaufils leaves the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Most Wanted Man
by
John Le Carre
Scribner, 10/07/2008
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all ...
more
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
by
Anne Rice
Knopf, 10/07/2008
In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had ...
more
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
by
Robert Clark
Doubleday, 10/07/2008
This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Devil's Brood: Eleanor of Aquitaine Series #3
by
Sharon Kay Penman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/07/2008
The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman’s trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—a tumultuous conclusion to ...
more
Historical Fiction
Grace: A Novel
by
Richard Paul Evans
Simon & Schuster, 10/07/2008
She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me ...
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Literary Fiction
Inkdeath
by
Cornelia Funke
The Chicken House, 10/07/2008
The Adderhead - his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo - has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lulu in Marrakech
by
Diane Johnson
Dutton, 10/07/2008
Lulu Sawyer, the heroine of Diane Johnson's captivating new novel, arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly ...
more
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
by
Margaret Atwood
House of Anansi Press, 10/07/2008
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn’t talk ...
more
The Almost Archer Sisters: A Novel
by
Lisa Gabriele
Simon & Schuster, 10/07/2008
Georgia "Peachy" Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, raising two boys in the same small ...
more
The Way We Work
by
David Macaulay
Walter Lorraine Books, 10/07/2008
In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Time of My Life: A Novel
by
Allison Winn Scotch
Shaye Areheart Books, 10/07/2008
From the outside view, Jillian Westfield has a pitch-perfect life. Her cherubic 18-month old daughter, her wildly successful investment banker ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Short Stories
The Eleventh Man
by
Ivan Doig
Harcourt, 10/13/2008
Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the ...
more
The Glass of Time: A Novel
by
Michael Cox
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/13/2008
In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady's maid to the twenty-...
more
A Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
by
Alex Perry
Bloomsbury USA, 10/14/2008
If the world is flat, as the prophets of globalization proclaim, then what happens on the underside? Alex Perry answers with this eye-opening journey ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years Series
by
Gregory Maguire
William Morrow, 10/14/2008
Since
Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with ...
more
Anila's Journey
by
Mary Finn
Candlewick Press, 10/14/2008
How can Anila Tandy, left to fend for herself after her mother's death, dare to apply for a job that is clearly not meant for a woman? But somehow the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
by
Bill Schutt
Harmony Books, 10/14/2008
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In
Dark Banquet,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
by
Mark Bostridge
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/14/2008
The common soldier's savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of ...
more
I See You Everywhere
by
Julia Glass
Pantheon Books, 10/14/2008
Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family....
more
Ms. Cahill for Congress: One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth-Grade Class, and the Election That Changed Their Lives Forever
by
Tierney Cahill
Ballantine Books, 10/14/2008
The remarkable story of a teacher who ran a grassroots campaign for Congress . . . from her sixth-grade classroom.
“You can’t run for ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Searching for Schindler: A Memoir
by
Thomas Keneally
Nan A. Talese, 10/14/2008
This is the captivating story behind
Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. ...
more
Tender Morsels
by
Margo Lanagan
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/14/2008
Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Brass Verdict: A Novel
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 10/14/2008
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood ...
more
The Fire: A Novel
by
Katherine Neville
Ballantine Books, 10/14/2008
2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family’s ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother’s birthday. Thirty years...
more
Third Strike: A Thriller (Charlie Fox Mysteries)
by
Zoe Sharp
Minotaur Books, 10/14/2008
The last person that professional bodyguard, Charlotte “Charlie” Fox, ever expected to self-destruct was her own father, an eminent surgeon....
more
Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
by
Tony Spawforth
St. Martin's Press, 10/14/2008
The behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace, painting a picture of the way its residents truly lived and examining the palace&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End ...
by
Philip Plait
Viking, 10/16/2008
According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen But how much do we really need to fear from things like black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Seeing Redd: The Looking Glass WarsBook Two
by
Frank Beddor
Dial Books, 10/16/2008
Wonderland finally seems as if it’s getting back to normal. Queen Alyss is back on the throne, and reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Dodge....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spud - The Madness Continues
by
John van de Ruit
Razorbill, 10/16/2008
It’s 1991, and John "Spud" Milton's journey to manhood is still creeping along at a snail's pace. Nearly fifteen, Spud's starting his second year...
more
The Quiet War
by
Paul McAuley
Gollancz, 10/16/2008
Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag
by
Tig Hague
Gotham Books, 10/16/2008
A twenty-first-century
Midnight Express, Tig Hague's powerful memoir brings to light the brutal machinations of Putin's Russia - a world where the ...
more
Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery (Not Eligible for Ay)
by
James Patterson & Hal Friedman
Little Brown & Company, 10/20/2008
Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Rifle: A Biography
by
Alexander Rose
Delacorte Press, 10/21/2008
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bones: An Alex Delaware Novel
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 10/21/2008
The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer ...
more
Thrillers
Chains
by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/21/2008
If an entire nation could seek its freedom,
why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dark Summer
by
Iris Johansen
St. Martin's Press, 10/21/2008
Jude Marrock is out for revenge and has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body count. She doesn't ...
more
Napoleon in Egypt
by
Paul Strathern
Bantam Books, 10/21/2008
"Europe is a molehill …. Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer. We must set off for the Orient; that is where all...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rough Weather
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/21/2008
Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected, and she needs Spenser's help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold digger ...
more
Thrillers
Testimony: A Novel
by
Anita Shreve
Little Brown & Company, 10/21/2008
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were ...
more
The Widows of Eastwick
by
John Updike
Knopf, 10/21/2008
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s
The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées—Alexandra,...
more
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States)
by
George C. Herring
Oxford University Press, 10/24/2008
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Burn Out
by
Marcia Muller
Grand Central Publishing, 10/27/2008
Traumatized by a recent life-or-death investigation, Sharon McCone flees to her ranch in California's high desert country to contemplate her future. ...
more
'Tis The Season!
by
Lorna Landvik
Ballantine Books, 10/28/2008
Heiress Caroline Dixon has managed to alienate nearly everyone with her alcohol-fueled antics, which have also provided near-constant fodder for the ...
more
A Christmas Grace: A Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 10/28/2008
With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. ...
more
Dancing with Demons: A Sister Fidelma of Cashel Mystery
by
Peter Tremayne
Minotaur Books, 10/28/2008
In the late 7th Century, the High King of Ireland is killed at night in the middle of his compound. Who killed him is not in question - there are ...
more
Extreme Measures: A Thriller
by
Vince Flynn
Atria Books, 10/28/2008
Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counter-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn has ...
more
Thrillers
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
by
Sharon Waxman
Times Books, 10/28/2008
Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Once Were Cops: A Novel
by
Ken Bruen
Minotaur Books, 10/28/2008
Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gate House
by
Nelson DeMille
Grand Central Publishing, 10/28/2008
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the ...
more
The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
by
Christopher Fowler
Bantam Books, 10/28/2008
It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-...
more
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey
by
William Least Heat-Moon
Little Brown & Company, 10/29/2008
About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called
Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by
Charles Seife
Viking, 10/30/2008
The author of
Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy.
When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Darwin Awards: Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool
by
Wendy Northcutt
Dutton, 10/30/2008
Evolution takes a giant step forward with the fifth edition of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon.
The human race's most popular humor ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Unpossessed City
by
Jon Fasman
Penguin Books, 10/30/2008
In this taut, atmospheric novel by the author of
The New York Times bestseller
The Geographer’s Library, a young American finds himself adrift in...
more
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
by
William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
Grove Press, 11/01/2008
More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down in New York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of ...
more
Literary Fiction
Baby Jesus Pawnshop
by
Lucia Orth
The Permanent Press, 11/01/2008
In steamy, corruption-ridden Manila, at the height of Ferdinand Marcos' brutal regime, two unlikely young lovers come together: Rue Caldwell, the wife...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
by
Thrity Umrigar
Harper Perennial, 11/01/2008
First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and ...
more
Ghost at Work: Bailey Ruth Mysteries
by
Carolyn Hart
William Morrow, 11/01/2008
Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives ...
more
Guardian
by
Julius Lester
Amistad, 11/01/2008
"There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty...
more
Here Lies Arthur
by
Philip Reeve
Scholastic, 11/01/2008
Gwynna is just a girl who is forced to run when her village is attacked and burns to the ground. To her horror, she is discovered in the wood. But it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Second Violin: An Inspector Troy Thriller
by
John Lawton
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/01/2008
John Lawton adds another spellbinding thriller to his
Inspector Troy series with
Second Violin. The sixth installment in the series, Lawton’s ...
more
Songs for the Missing: A Novel
by
Stewart O'Nan
Viking, 11/01/2008
It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim ...
more
The Drowned Life (P.S.)
by
Jeffrey Ford
Harper Perennial, 11/01/2008
Paperback original.
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of ...
more
The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir
by
John Grogan
William Morrow, 11/01/2008
In his debut bestseller,
Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now, in his highly ...
more
The Memorist
by
M. J. Rose
Mira, 11/01/2008
The dreads are back. As a child, Meers Logan was haunted by memories of another time and place, always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Paris Enigma: A Novel
by
Pablo De Santis
Harper, 11/01/2008
In the tradition of Caleb Carr's
The Alienist and Eric Larsen's
The Devil in the White City comes a gripping tale of murder and the art of crime ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
by
Tilar J. Mazzeo
Collins, 11/01/2008
The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, showed the world how to live with style, and emerged a legend
Veuve Clicquot ...
more
Tiger Moon
by
Antonia Michaelis, translated by Anthea Bell
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 11/01/2008
Fate brings together a talking tiger, a doomed princess, and a rascally thief in a thrilling, old-fashioned tale from an exciting, internationally ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
by
Carlo D'este
Harper, 11/01/2008
Carlo D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord: a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What I Saw And How I Lied
by
Judy Blundell
Scholastic, 11/01/2008
When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with ...
more
A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
by
Alex Beam
Public Affairs, 11/03/2008
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial “dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
by
Matthew Goodman
Basic Books, 11/03/2008
The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful, entertaining, and surprisingly true story of how in the summer of 1835 a series of articles in the
Sun, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Divine Justice
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 11/04/2008
Following
Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most surprising thriller yet .... Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone,"...
more
Thrillers
Esther's Inheritance
by
Sandor Marai
Knopf, 11/04/2008
What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for more than twenty years. Lajos, the liar, married her ...
more
Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
by
Melissa Anelli
Pocket Books, 11/04/2008
Paperback Original. The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story...
During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions ...
more
Other
Kissing Games of the World
by
Sandi Kahn Shelton
Shaye Areheart Books, 11/04/2008
What if the one person you can’t bear to be with is also the one person you can’t bear to be without?
Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited...
more
Santa Clawed: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series #17
by
Rita Mae Brown
Bantam Books, 11/04/2008
New York Times bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for the holidays in a new mystery featuring Mary ...
more
Swallowing Darkness: Meredith Gentry, Book 7
by
Laurell K. Hamilton
Ballantine Books, 11/04/2008
I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child -- twins, fathered by my royal guard. ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thames: The Biography
by
Peter Ackroyd
Nan A. Talese, 11/04/2008
In this perfect companion to
London: The Biography,
Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river’s ...
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The Journey: A Novel
by
H.G. Adler
Random House, 11/04/2008
A major literary event: the first-ever English translation of a lost masterpiece of Holocaust literature by acclaimed author and survivor H. G. Adler
...
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The Secret Between Us
by
Barbara Delinsky
Doubleday, 11/04/2008
Physician Deborah Monroe and her teenage daughter Grace are driving home one night in a raging rainstorm when their car hits a man who is on foot on ...
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
by
Patrick French
Knopf, 11/04/2008
Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose ...
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 11/04/2008
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and ...
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Friendly Fire
by
A.B. Yehoshua
Harcourt, 11/06/2008
A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his ...
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Blacklight Blue: The Third Enzo Files
by
Peter May
Poisoned Pen Press, 11/10/2008
Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious ...
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The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
by
Bert Holldobler & Edward O Wilson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/10/2008
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of
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Science, Health and the Environment
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris
by
R. L. LaFevers
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 11/10/2008
Theodosia Throckmorton is in a fix. Allowed to attend a reception given by one of the directors of her parents' museum, she stumbles across Mr. Tetley...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
2666: A Novel
by
Roberto Bolano
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/11/2008
Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life,
2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing...
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Ender in Exile
by
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books, 11/11/2008
At the close of
Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Just After Sunset: Stories
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 11/11/2008
Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since
Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the ...
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The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel
by
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 11/11/2008
When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the ...
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The Fire Kimono: A Sano Ichiro Novel
by
Laura Joh Rowland
Minotaur Books, 11/11/2008
Japan, March 1700. Near a Shinto shrine in the hills, a windstorm knocks down a tree to uncover a human skeleton, long buried and forgotten. Meanwhile...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fourth Time Is Murder: A Posadas County Mystery #6
by
Steven F. Havill
Minotaur Books, 11/11/2008
Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is always busy, but more so now than ever. The sheriff is still not completely recovered from his stay in the ...
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Mysteries
The Hour I First Believed
by
Wally Lamb
Harper, 11/11/2008
When forty-seven-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get ...
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The Journal of Helene Berr
by
Helene Berr
Weinstein Books, 11/11/2008
On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a ...
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The Rights of the Reader
by
Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Sarah Adams
Candlewick Press, 11/11/2008
This witty, refreshing treatise from a celebrated author and seasoned teacher is a passionate defense of reading — just for the joy of it.
First...
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The School on Heart's Content Road
by
Carolyn Chute
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/11/2008
Since her astonishing debut,
The Beans of Egypt, Maine, best-selling novelist Carolyn Chute has been heralded as a passionate voice of the underclass,...
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Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business
by
Ethan Mordden
St. Martin's Press, 11/11/2008
Any girl who twists her hat will be fired! – Florenz Ziegfeld
And no Ziegfeld girl ever did as she made her way down the gala stairways of
the...
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Books, 11/13/2008
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Cross Country
by
James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 11/17/2008
When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe...
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Thrillers
The Blue Manuscript
by
Sabiha Al Khemir
Verso, 11/17/2008
The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War (The New Press)
by
James Neugass
New Press, 11/17/2008
A beautiful, never-before-published memoir from the trenches of the Spanish Civil War, by an award-winning poet and novelist.
Eating the Sun
by
Oliver Morton
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/18/2008
From acclaimed science journalist Oliver Morton comes this fascinating, lively, profound look at photosynthesis, nature's greatest miracle. Wherever ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Outliers: The Story of Success
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Little Brown & Company, 11/18/2008
Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Private Patient
by
P.D. James
Knopf, 11/18/2008
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When ...
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Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
by
Karl Jacoby
Penguin Press, 11/20/2008
A groundbreaking exploration of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history illuminates the clash of American, Mexican, and tribal cultures ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Arctic Drift: A Dirk Pitt Novel
by
Clive Cussler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/25/2008
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of ...
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Disquiet
by
Julia Leigh
Penguin Press, 11/25/2008
Olivia arrives at her mother’s chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family...
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The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage
by
Eric Frattini Alonso
St. Martin's Press, 11/25/2008
For five centuries, the Vatican—the oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and shaper of history—has used a secret spy service, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sweet In Between: A Novel
by
Sheri Reynolds
Shaye Areheart Books, 11/25/2008
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sheri Reynolds weaves an unforgettable and sumptuous tale of lost youth and the search for meaning and place in a...
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The Traveler
by
Daren Simkin, illustrated by Daniel Simkin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/25/2008
A charming fable that evokes a life lesson we would all do well to learn: living and loving are time well spent.
Once, there was a boy named Charlie....
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Other
Your Heart Belongs to Me
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 11/25/2008
A year after the heart transplant that saved him from certain death, thirty-four year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. Business is good at his ...
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Legend Of A Suicide
by
David Vann
University of Massachusetts Press, 11/30/2008
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction - In 'Ichthyology,' a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told ...
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Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
by
Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton & Company, 12/01/2008
A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe.
When it comes to markets, the first deadly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
by
Steven Rinella
Spiegel & Grau, 12/02/2008
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Cruel Intent: Ali Reynolds Series #4
by
J.A. Jance
Touchstone, 12/02/2008
On a dating site, singleatheart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for sex without strings. But these "married singles" ...
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Thrillers
Fallen Skies: A Novel
by
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 12/02/2008
Paperback original.
Fallen Skies takes readers to post-World War I England in a suspenseful story about the marriage of a wealthy war hero and an...
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Historical Fiction
Scarpetta: Kay Scarpetta #16
by
Patricia Cornwell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/02/2008
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the ...
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Thrillers
The Charlemagne Pursuit: Cotton Malone Series #4
by
Steve Berry
Ballantine Books, 12/02/2008
As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the...
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The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
by
Michael Wolff
Broadway Books, 12/02/2008
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from...
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Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach
by
Meryl Gordon
Houghton Mifflin, 12/03/2008
The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his ...
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Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise
by
Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore
Spiegel & Grau, 12/09/2008
"Tis a small canvas, this Boston," muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
by
Beverly Swerling
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 12/09/2008
City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nation ...
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Historical Fiction
Fathom
by
Cherie Priest
Tor Books, 12/09/2008
“I can’t fathom them, and neither can you.”
The ageless water witch Arahab has been scheming for eons, gathering the means to awaken...
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The Treasure
by
Iris Johansen
Bantam Books, 12/09/2008
Lady Selene Ware had been nothing more than a harem slave when Kadar Ben Arnaud—a man once trained in the black arts of death and seduction—...
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Show No Fear: A Nina Reilly Novel #12
by
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Pocket Books, 12/16/2008
A brand-new Nina Reilly thriller takes readers back to Nina's first murder investigation, to the case that ignites her passionate commitment to ...
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Thrillers
A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East - from the Cold War to the War on Terror
by
Patrick Tyler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/23/2008
The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Home of the Brave
by
Katherine Applegate
Washington Square Press, 12/23/2008
Kek comes from Africa where he lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived. Now she's missing, and Kek has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The End of My Addiction
by
Olivier Ameisen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/23/2008
What if you found out there was a cure for addiction? A medication that eradicates the need for a fix? This is the story of Olivier Ameisen, a ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure
by
Catherine Blyth
Gotham Books, 12/26/2008
A wide-ranging, exhortatory look at the pleasures of great conversation, including strategies for how to bring it about, from the witty pen of an ...
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The Invention of Air
by
Steven Johnson
Riverhead Books, 12/26/2008
The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Greasing the Piñata
by
Tim Maleeny
Poisoned Pen Press, 12/28/2008
Greasing the Piñata is a novel about family, politics, and the devastating effects of tequila on a private detective's investigative abilities. ...
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A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
by
Richard Firstman
Ballantine Books, 12/30/2008
When he went to bed on the night of September 6, 1988, seventeen-year-old Marty Tankleff was a typical kid in the upscale Long Island community of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor
by
Dana Canedy
Crown, 12/30/2008
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become
a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home ...
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American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets
by
Jill Conner Browne
Simon & Schuster, 12/30/2008
From #1 New York Times bestselling humorist Jill Conner Browne comes a hilarious life maintenance program designed to help women navigate our hyper-...
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Advice
Another Life: A Burke Novel
by
Andrew Vachss
Pantheon Books, 12/30/2008
In this blistering new novel, Burke is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family ... forever.
...
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Thrillers
Black Ops: A Presidential Agent Thriller. #5
by
W.E.B. Griffin
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/30/2008
The Russian bear is stirring - and it's hungry.
Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo receives a series of back-channel messages ...
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Bone by Bone
by
Carol O'Connell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/30/2008
In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back. No one knows what happened to ...
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Firmin
by
Sam Savage
Delta, 12/30/2008
In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy of
Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey,
Lady Chatterley's Lover, ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Going to See the Elephant
by
Rodes Fishburne
Delacorte Press, 12/30/2008
On a windy September day, twenty-five-year-old Slater Brown stands in the back of a bicycle taxi hurtling the wrong way down the busiest street in San...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lima Nights
by
Marie Arana
Dial Press, 12/30/2008
From a National Book Award finalist—for her memoir
American Chica—and the author of the acclaimed novel
Cellophane comes this spare, ...
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The Cruelest Month: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #3
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 12/30/2008
When a group of villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil?until one...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Messenger: A Novel
by
Jan Burke
Simon & Schuster, 12/30/2008
Beneath the Caribbean Sea, a salvage diver hears an eerie voice calling to him from the wreckage of a nineteenth-century ship. In return for promised ...
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Thrillers
The White Darkness
by
Geraldine McCaughrean
HarperTeen, 12/30/2008
Symone "Sym" Wates is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In...
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
by
Norah Vincent
Viking, 12/30/2008
Norah Vincent's
New York Times bestselling book,
Self-Made Man, ended on a harrowing note. Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months ...
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