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The Best New Books Publishing in 2006

2006

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Avalon High
by Meg Cabot
HarperTeen, 01/01/2006
 
Avalon High seems like a typical high school, attended by typical students: There's Lance, the jock. Jennifer, the cheerleader. And Will, senior class...more
Literary Fiction
Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara On the Caravan of White Gold
by Michael Benanav
The Lyons Press, 01/01/2006
 
Century after century, camels and their drivers have traveled the sands between the fabled city of Timbuktu and the infamous salt mines of Taoudenni, ...more
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Biography/Memoir
Purity of Blood
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/01/2006
 
In Purity of Blood, the second novel in the series (following Captain Alatriste, the courageous Alatriste is considering rejoining his old regiment to...more
Literary Fiction
Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery
by Meg Cabot
Avon Books, 01/01/2006
 
HEATHER WELLS ROCKS! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a ...more
Mysteries
The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books
by Ian Sansom
Harper Perennial, 01/01/2006
 
Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically ...more
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Mysteries
 Debut Author
A Long Shadow: an Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by Charles Todd
William Morrow, 01/03/2006
 
New Year's Eve, 1919. Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge has accompanied his sister to the home of mutual friends for dinner but is called away by...more
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Mysteries
All Night Long
by Jayne Ann Krentz
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/03/2006
 
Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the...more
Romance
Chasing Spring: an American Journey through a Changing Season
by Bruce Stutz
Scribner, 01/03/2006
 
In the tradition of Blue Highways and Silent Spring, Chasing Spring follows nature's season of renewal even as it shows how the delicate ...more
Other
Correcting the Landscape: A Novel
by Marjorie Kowalski Cole
Harper, 01/03/2006
 
Gus Traynor is the editor of a small weekly newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska. His idealism has been consistently tested but remains mostly intact, and ...more
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Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Got The Look
by James Grippando
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/03/2006
 
FBI agent Andie Henning is tracking a ruthless kidnapper plaguing South Florida, one who's out to prove that all human life can be valued in dollars ...more
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Thrillers
Johnny and the Dead
by Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/03/2006
 
When those interred in the local cemetery discover that their final resting place has been sold for development, they're rather unhappy about it. ...more
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Literary Fiction
Just Rewards
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
St. Martin's Press, 01/03/2006
 
Linnet, Tessa, India and Evan: four remarkable women. Three generations of Hartes. One indomitable family whose loyalty binds them together and whose ...more
Romance
Leaving Home
by Anita Brookner
Random House, 01/03/2006
 
At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London ...more
Literary Fiction
Mad River Road
by Joy Fielding
Atria Books, 01/03/2006
 
After spending a year in prison, Ralph Fisher has explicit plans for his first night of freedom: tonight, someone will be held accountable. He goes to...more
Thrillers
The Hostage
by W.E.B. Griffin
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/03/2006
 
Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an ...more
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Thrillers
The Number: a Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life
by Lee Eisenberg
Free Press, 01/03/2006
 
It's the last question you think about before going to sleep, and the first on your mind in the morning. It's a taboo that you can't ...more
Advice
The Wall
by Jeff Long
Atria Books, 01/03/2006
 
Once upon a time, thirty-five years ago, Hugh and Lewis were Yosemite legends. El Capitan was their holy grail, and their destiny seemed written on ...more
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Thrillers
The Wave
by Walter Mosley
Aspect, 01/03/2006
 
Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his father--who has been dead for several years. It feels ...more
Literary Fiction
Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield
by Max Hastings
Knopf, 01/03/2006
 
What it means to be a warrior has become a pertinent issue of our time. What makes some men and women perform extraordinary deeds on the battlefield? ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Catch Me When I Fall
by Nicci French
Grand Central Publishing, 01/05/2006
 
You're a whirlwind. A success. You live life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss lives life in a whirlwind with her husband ...more
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Thrillers
Sunstroke
by Jesse Kellerman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/05/2006
 
Gloria Mendez is single and thirty-six, and secretly and somewhat hopelessly in love with her oblivious boss. He is both single and solitary, and far ...more
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Mysteries
The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
Harcourt, 01/09/2006
 
With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species - be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging ...more
Short Stories
Day of the False King: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Babylon
by Brad Geagley
Simon & Schuster, 01/10/2006
 
Geagley revisits ancient Egypt - the scene of his 2005 debut Year of the Hyenas - and his detective hero Semerket, Egypt's clerk of investigations and...more
Literary Fiction
Incendiary Circumstances: a Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
by Amitav Ghosh
Houghton Mifflin, 01/10/2006
 
In a thirty-year career in journalism, Ghosh has written extraordinary firsthand accounts of catastrophic events in every part of the world. For the ...more
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World
by Gordon Chang
Random House, 01/10/2006
 
"If we lose, I will destroy the world," said Kim Jong II, supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim's regime insults ...more
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Seas of Crisis
by Joe Buff
William Morrow, 01/10/2006
 
It's June 2012 and the next world war is drawing toward its climax. Both the Allies and the Berlin-Boer Axis are bitterly deadlocked. But a familiar ...more
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Thrillers
The Accidental
by Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 01/10/2006
 
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly ...more
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Literary Fiction
The Catlady
by Dick King-Smith
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 01/10/2006
 
A warmhearted tale set in 1901. Muriel is known as the Catlady, because she lives alone with just her many cats for company. When a new kitten is born...more
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Literary Fiction
The Tent
by Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese, 01/10/2006
 
The mini-fictions and micro-dramas in this collection from the inimitable Margaret Atwood will amuse, enchant, and enlighten readers. The Tent ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Death Dance: An Alexandra Cooper Mystery
by Linda Fairstein
Scribner, 01/17/2006
 
Teaming up with longtime friends -- NYPD's Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace -- Assistant DA Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of world-famous ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Last Templar
by Raymond Khoury
Dutton, 01/19/2006
 
"It has served us well, this myth of Christ."
—Pope Leo X, 16th Century

In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre ...more
Historical Fiction
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
by Bernard-Henri Levy
Random House, 01/24/2006
 
What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri L&#...more
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cell
by Stephen King
Scribner, 01/24/2006
 
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is ...more
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Thrillers
Memory in Death
by J.D. Robb
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/24/2006
 
A federal judge is murdered, found shot to death in his home—together with the body of his mistress. The crime grips San Francisco. To homicide ...more
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Thrillers
The Hunt Club
by John Lescroart
Dutton, 01/24/2006
 
A federal judge is murdered, found shot to death in his home—together with the body of his mistress. The crime grips San Francisco. To homicide ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
My Lucky Star
by Joe Keenan
Little Brown & Company, 01/25/2006
 
The luckless writing team of Philip Cavanaugh and Claire Simmons is lured to Hollywood by their shifty pal Gilbert's offer of an improbably high-...more
Literary Fiction
Capitol Murder: A Ben Kincaid Novel
by William Bernhardt
Ballantine Books, 01/31/2006
 
Senate aide Veronica Cooper was found in a secret Senate office beneath the Capitol building, on Senator Todd Glancy's favorite couch, blood pouring ...more
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Thrillers
Gone
by Lisa Gardner
Bantam Books, 01/31/2006
 
For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running,...more
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Thrillers
Sinister Shorts
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Delacorte Press, 01/31/2006
 
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly thrillers brings her prodigious storytelling gifts to this first-ever collection of...more
Short Stories
Sorrow Without End
by Priscilla Royal
Poisoned Pen Press, 01/31/2006
 
As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal ...more
Thrillers
The Ghost Orchid
by Carol Goodman
Ballantine Books, 01/31/2006
 
Literary suspense. For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco ...more
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Thrillers
The Good Life
by Jay McInerney
Knopf, 01/31/2006
 
Clinging to a semi-precarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are thoroughly wonderstruck by young ...more
Literary Fiction
An Unquiet Grave
by P. J. Parrish
Pinnacle, 02/01/2006
 
In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and ...more
Thrillers
Ask Me No Questions
by Marina Budhos
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 02/01/2006
 
For years since emigrating from Bangladesh, they have lived on expired visas in New York City, hoping they could someday realize their dream of ...more
Literary Fiction
Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography
by Steve Delsohn & Mark Heisler
Simon & Schuster, 02/01/2006
 
The first comprehensive biography of Knight, one of the most successful and controversial coaches in the history of American sports.
Biography/Memoir
Lapham Rising
by Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco, 02/01/2006
 
Harry March's troubles begin when Lapham, a self-aggrandizing, ostentatious multimillionaire, commences construction of a 36,000-square-foot house (...more
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Literary Fiction
Luna (National Book Award Finalist)
by Julie Anne Peters
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 02/01/2006
 
Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female name, his true self, Luna, only ...more
Literary Fiction
Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash
by Liz Perle
Henry Holt and Company, 02/01/2006
 
A bold and personal book that digs below the surface of one of society's last taboos—money—and illuminates how women’s emotional ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Advice
Strivers Row
by Kevin Baker
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/01/2006
 
Summer, 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival. Yet underneath the glitter, Harlem's black residents remain second-class citizens. Along these ...more
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Literary Fiction
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
by Shane Claiborne
Zondervan, 02/01/2006
 
Using unconventional examples from his own life, Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world, and challenges readers to truly ...more
Advice
The Widow's War: A Novel
by Sally Gunning
William Morrow, 02/01/2006
 
Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts&#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Troll Mill
by Katherine Langrish
Eos, 02/01/2006
 
Fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson is haunted by his past. Forced to live with his evil uncles under the eerie shadows of Troll Fell, he nearly fell prey ...more
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
by Charles Seife
Viking, 02/02/2006
 
As Charles Seife reveals in this energetic new book, information theory, once the province of philosophers and linguists, has emerged as the crucial ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront
by Kristin Henderson
Houghton Mifflin, 02/02/2006
 
Kristin Henderson is a journalist married to a military chaplain who has served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In While They're at War, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four
by John Feinstein
Little Brown & Company, 02/07/2006
 
There is no event in sports quite like the Final Four. John Feinstein explores what it means to a school, a coach, and a player to be in the Final ...more
Other
Lost
by Michael Robotham
Doubleday, 02/07/2006
 
On a cold London night, homicide detective Vincent Ruiz is fished out of the Thames with a bullet in his leg and no memory of the circumstances ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Lovers & Players
by Jackie Collins
St. Martin's Press, 02/07/2006
 
Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a ...more
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Literary Fiction
NNNNN: A Novel
by Carl Reiner
Simon & Schuster, 02/07/2006
 
The hero of Carl Reiner's nutty and wonderful novel, Nat Noland, is hard at work on his fifth book, his own version of Genesis, concentrating on the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Sea Change: A Jesse Stone Novel
by Robert B Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/07/2006
 
When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult ...more
Thrillers
The Golden Hills of Westria
by Diana Paxson
Tor Books, 02/07/2006
 
A new story and a new generation grows as Diana Paxson returns to Westria, her classic fantasy realm, in the first new novel in that land in more than...more
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Literary Fiction
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
by Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, 02/07/2006
 
Places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context.....The tragedy of New Orleans is but...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Lighting The Way: Nine Women Who Shaped Modern America
by Karenna Gore Schiff
Miramax, 02/08/2006
 
In this highly readable, illuminating narrative that spans the twentieth century, Karenna Gore Schiff tells the remarkable stories of nine influential...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
Ballantine Books, 02/08/2006
 
Until recently, Dr. Julia Cates was one of the preeminent child psychiatrists in the country, but a scandal shattered her confidence, ruined her ...more
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Literary Fiction
A Little White Death
by John Lawton
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/09/2006
 
England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The old guard, shocked by the habits of the war baby youth — sex, drugs, and rock and roll — ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Entertaining with the Sopranos: Allen Rucker, Michele Scicolone, David Chase, Ellen Silverman, Carmela Soprano
by Taylor Branch
Grand Central Publishing, 02/13/2006
 
Offers a complete guide to entertaining. From graduation parties to holiday gatherings to poolside barbecues, here are over 75 new recipes and plenty ...more
Other
The Fifth Horseman: A Women's Murder Club Thriller
by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Little Brown & Company, 02/13/2006
 
A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The ...more
Thrillers
The Amalgamation Polka
by Stephen Wright
Knopf, 02/14/2006
 
Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more ...more
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Literary Fiction
The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Walmart's Low Everyday Prices Is Hurting America
by Anthony Bianco
Currency, 02/14/2006
 
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Summer Snow
by Rebecca Pawel
Soho Press, 02/15/2006
 
Edgar-winner Pawel's fourth mystery to feature Gardia lieutenant Carlos Tejada. In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
by James Garbarino
Penguin, 02/16/2006
 
From one of America's leading authorities on juvenile violence and aggression, a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion in violent behavior by ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Adventures of Vin Fiz
by Clive Cussler
Philomel, 02/21/2006
 
Ten-year-old twins Lacey and Casey Nicefolk live on a tiny herb farm in California, wishing they could see the world . . . but how, when times are so ...more
Literary Fiction
The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery
by Martha Grimes
Viking, 02/21/2006
 
Over three nights Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades, spins a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Templar Legacy
by Steve Berry
Ballantine Books, 02/21/2006
 
Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Two Minute Rule
by Robert Crais
Simon & Schuster, 02/21/2006
 
When ex-con Max Holman finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste too sweet. The only thing on his mind is reconciliation with his estranged son,...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Zero to the Bone: A Nina Zero Novel
by Robert Eversz
Simon & Schuster, 02/21/2006
 
Robert Eversz's edgy and endearing heroine Nina Zero is back...and this time she's embroiled in her most dangerous case ever -- investigating L.A.'s ...more
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Thrillers
Freeglader: The Edge Chronicles
by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
David Fickling Books, 02/28/2006
 
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and his colleagues — the librarian knights, Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends — ...more
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
by Bruce R. Bartlett
Doubleday, 02/28/2006
 
George W. Bush came to the presidency in 2000 claiming to be the heir of Ronald Reagan. But while he did cut taxes, in most other respects he has ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Silver Spoon
by Various Contributors
Phaidon Press, 02/28/2006
 
The Silver Spoon is the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant classic. Considered to ...more
Other
Sour Puss
by Rita Mae Brown
Bantam Books, 02/28/2006
 
In this latest whodunit, Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner-in-crime-detection, Sneaky Pie Brown, return to the scene of their bestselling crimes&#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
by Mark Kurlansky
Ballantine Books, 02/28/2006
 
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
by Edward Rutherfurd
Doubleday, 02/28/2006
 
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd's magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and ...more
Literary Fiction
Without Roots: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
by Pope Benedict XVI
Basic Books, 02/28/2006
 
On May 12, 2004, Pope Benedict XVI--then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger--addressed the Italian Senate on the state of the West; the very same day, Joseph ...more
Advice
Baby Brother's Blues
by Pearl Cleage
One World, 03/01/2006
 
When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who gave up his career to assume responsibility for...more
Romance
Blood Hunt: A Jack Harvey Novel
by Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 03/01/2006
 
It begins with a phone call. Gordon Reeve's brother has been found dead in his car in San Diego - the car was locked from the inside, a gun in his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Dirty Blonde
by Lisa Scottoline
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2006
 
Cate Fante is strong and smart, but when she gets appointed a federal judge, even she wonders if she can do the job justice. She's in her thirties, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
I Saw the Lord: A Wake-Up Call for Your Heart
by Anne Graham Lotz
Zondervan, 03/01/2006
 
Like many others, Anne Graham Lotz, the second daughter of Billy and Ruth Graham, has longed throughout her life to see the Lord Jesus and to know him...more
Other
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
by Ted Steinberg & Theodore Steinberg
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/06/2006
 
Americans are locked in a love-hate relationship with their lawns, and Ted Steinberg tells you why. The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crippen: A Novel of Murder
by John Boyne
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/07/2006
 
July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house ...more
Literary Fiction
False Impression
by Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 03/07/2006
 
When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Bloomsbury USA, 03/07/2006
 
Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming...more
Science, Health and the Environment
Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, a Personal Biography
by Charlotte Chandler
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2006
 
Drawing on extensive conversations with Bette Davis during the last decade of her life, Charlotte Chandler gives us a biography in which the great ...more
Biography/Memoir
Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/07/2006
 
In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Living a Dog's Life: Jazzy, Juicy, and Me
by Cindy Adams
St. Martin's Press, 03/07/2006
 
The swell of dog love that met Cindy Adams everywhere she went after the publication of The Gift of Jazzy made it clear that Jazzy's fans were ...more
Biography/Memoir
Nightlife
by Thomas Perry
Random House, 03/07/2006
 
Perry's new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner: A Powerful Plan to Finish Rich in Real Estate
by David Bach
Broadway Books, 03/07/2006
 
Imagine this. You buy a home, live in it, then buy another. You build your wealth through real estate - and then retire rich. It may sound too good to...more
Advice
The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People
by Cathleen Falsani
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/07/2006
 
Spirituality clearly now plays a key role in the United States. But what is also clear is that faith is a more complex issue than snapshots of the ...more
Other
The Journey: How to Live by Faith in an Uncertain World
by Billy Graham
Thomas Nelson, 03/07/2006
 
Billy Graham is respected and loved around the world. And this work is his magnum opus, the culmination of a lifetime of experience and ministry! ...more
Other
The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland
by Kevin McKiernan
St. Martin's Press, 03/07/2006
 
Kevin McKiernan has reported on the Kurds of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria since 1991, but he began his career as a journalist in the 1970s covering ...more
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Painted Kiss: A Novel
by Elizabeth Hickey
Atria Books, 03/07/2006
 
Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It is here where the twelve-...more
Historical Fiction
Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad
by Mike Greenberg
Villard, 03/07/2006
 
Meet Mike Greenberg, the popular host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, the highest-rated drive-time sports talk show on the dial. ...more
Other
A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
by Frances Mayes
Broadway Books, 03/14/2006
 
Vintage Frances Mayes--a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely places, of memory woven into the present, ...more
Other
Abide with Me
by Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 03/14/2006
 
In her luminous and long-awaited new novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern ...more
Literary Fiction
Cobra 2: The inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, Vol. 2
by Michael R. Gordon & Bernard E. Trainor
Pantheon Books, 03/14/2006
 
There have been many reports about the Iraq war and the vicissitudes of the American occupation, yet none heretofore has been informed by the inside ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Skin Gods
by Richard Montanari
Ballantine Books, 03/14/2006
 
With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most ...more
Thrillers
My Father is a Book
by Janna Malamud Smith
Houghton Mifflin, 03/16/2006
 
On the twentieth anniversary of Bernard Malamud's death, Janna Malamud Smith explores her father's private, unpublished letters and journals to ...more
Biography/Memoir
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
by Erica Jong
Jeremy P Tarcher, 03/16/2006
 
The sublime and salacious story of one writer's long and successful career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur. Throughout, Jong is ...more
Biography/Memoir
Sweetness in the Belly
by Camilla Gibb
Penguin Press, 03/16/2006
 
An evocative and richly imagined story of a British Muslim woman's search for love and belonging in two very different worlds.

When Lilly is eight...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joseph McCarthy
by Tom Wicker
Harcourt, 03/20/2006
 
Journalist Tom Wicker examines McCarthy's ambition and record, attempting to discover the motivation for his demagoguery. Joe McCarthy first ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips
Viking, 03/21/2006
 
Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the political coalition, led by radical religion, that is driving America to the brink of disaster. From ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Apex Hides the Hurt
by Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 03/21/2006
 
When the town of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what anyone would do—they hired a consultant.

The protagonist of Apex ...more
Literary Fiction
Dirty Job
by Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 03/21/2006
 
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind...more
Literary Fiction
Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
by Neale Donald Walsch
Atria Books, 03/21/2006
 
Through his profound and personal dialogue with God, Walsch explores the process by which all human beings must end their days here on Earth and begin...more
Other
Prior Bad Acts
by Tami Hoag
Bantam Books, 03/21/2006
 
It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way of a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing--in Only 15 Minutes a Week!
by Phil Town
Crown, 03/21/2006
 
Phil Town is now a very wealthy man, but he wasn't always. In fact, he was living on a salary of $4000 a year when some well-timed advice launched...more
Advice
The Secret Supper
by Javier Sierra, translated by Alberto Manguel
Atria Books, 03/21/2006
 
Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci's genius and his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
by David Grossman
Canongate Books, 03/23/2006
 
There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle ...more
Literary Fiction
Quite Honestly
by John Mortimer
Viking, 03/23/2006
 
Thousands of readers have discovered the inimitable voice of John Mortimer through his Rumpole series of stories. But with Quite Honestly, Mortimer ...more
Literary Fiction
Train From Marietta
by Dorothy Garlock
Grand Central Publishing, 03/27/2006
 
Katherine Tyler's cross-country train trip is unexpectedly derailed when she is kidnapped by an unscrupulous band of outlaws. Her worried father calls...more
Romance
Circle of Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Simon & Schuster, 03/28/2006
 
Elm Creek Quilts, the thriving artists' retreat at Elm Creek Manor, is a place that stakes its sterling reputation on the palpable creative energy and...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel
by Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 03/28/2006
 
A superintendent in the Thames River Police, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he and his men notice a young couple standing ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Gone: Alex Delaware #20
by Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 03/28/2006
 
Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Night of the Jaguar
by Michael Gruber
William Morrow, 03/28/2006
 
Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church. A few weeks later an Indian shaman called Moie arrives in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Alpine Recluse: An Emma Lord Mystery
by Mary Daheim
Ballantine Books, 03/28/2006
 
In the middle of a hot midsummer night, Emma is awakened by fire trucks rushing to a blaze at the nearby home of newlyweds Tim and Tiffany Rafferty. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
by Craig Johnson
Penguin Books, 03/28/2006
 
Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which Craig Johnson draws on his deep attachment to ...more
Thrillers
Tomb of the Golden Bird: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
by Elizabeth Peters
William Morrow, 03/28/2006
 
The incomparable Emerson clan is a hairbreadth away from unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for. But a sinister plot and a dark ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Praising Boys Well & Praising Girls Well: 100 Tips for Parents And Teachers
by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer
Da Capo Press, 03/30/2006
 
Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church. A few weeks later an Indian shaman called Moie arrives in ...more
Advice
Dead Days of Summer: A Death on Demand Mystery. #17
by Carolyn G. Hart
William Morrow, 04/01/2006
 
Murder hits close to home for Death on Demand bookstore owner Annie Darling and her beloved husband, Max. While investigating a new case, Max calls ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
End of Story: A Novel of Suspense
by Peter Abrahams
William Morrow, 04/01/2006
 
Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Engaging Autism: Helping Children Relate, Communicate and Think with the DIR Floortime Approach
by Stanley I. Greenspan and Serena Wieder
Da Capo Press, 04/01/2006
 
The long-awaited landmark guide to autism and ASD by the authors of the timeless classic The Child with Special Needs. The inspiring success of Dr. ...more
Advice
Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'EM Out
by Steve Jarding, Bob Kerrey & Dave
Touchstone, 04/01/2006
 
Like a newly discovered treasure map offering a path to buried riches, Foxes in the Henhouse is a hard-hitting political blueprint for how the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Half-Moon Investigations
by Eoin Colfer
Miramax, 04/01/2006
 
Fletcher Moon has never been like other kids. For one thing, he has had to suffer the humiliating nickname "Half Moon" because of his short stature. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006
by Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 04/01/2006
 
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oates's ...more
Short Stories
House
by Frank Peretti & Ted Dekker
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/01/2006
 
In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac bent on killing them, they flee deep into the woods. They...more
Thrillers
Let Every Nation Know
by Robert Dallek & Terry Golway
Sourcebooks, 04/01/2006
 
Sourcebooks MediaFusion is proud to pair a new critical text by two of America's leading historians with a dynamic audio CD of John F. Kennedy'...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Letters to a Young Mathematician
by Ian Stewart
Perseus Publishing, 04/01/2006
 
From the renowned mathematician and writer Ian Stewart, an insightful and lively exploration of why mathematics matters.
Advice
Mama: A True Story, in which a Baby Hippo Loses his Mama During a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mama
by Jeanette Winter
Harcourt Children's Books, 04/01/2006
 
After struggling alone for several days, a baby was rescued by Kenyan wildlife officers and brought to live in an animal refuge. There, all by himself...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
My Latest Grievance
by Elinor Lipman
Houghton Mifflin, 04/01/2006
 
From the author of The Inn at Lake Devine, a pitch-perfect novel about a young woman, too smart for her own good, and the chaos that ensues when her ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Nicotine Kiss
by Loren D. Estleman
Forge Books, 04/01/2006
 
Sometimes friendship is the only thing you can count on. Just before Thanksgiving, an old friend, cigarette smuggler Jeff Starzek, saved private ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Seeing
by Jose Saramago, translated Margaret Jull Costa
Harcourt, 04/01/2006
 
What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life
by Martina Navratilova
Rodale Books, 04/01/2006
 
Fabulously fit as she nears the milestone of 50, tennis great Martina Navratilova reveals her step-by-step, age-defying formula.
Advice
Sweet and Low: A Family Story
by Rich Cohen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/01/2006
 
Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Collar: A Year of Striving and Faith inside a Catholic Seminary
by Jonathan Englert
Houghton Mifflin, 04/01/2006
 
There are now a record sixty-four million Catholics in the United States, yet the number of priests is plummeting so fast that hundreds of parishes ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Riverhead Books, 04/01/2006
 
A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Possum Always Rings Twice: A Chet Gecko Mystery
by Bruce Hale
Harcourt Children's Books, 04/01/2006
 
Get ready for muckraking time at Emerson Hicky Elementary. No, not the annual mud-pie-eating contest - it's the student council election. And, as Chet...more
Mysteries
The Scent of God
by Beryl Singleton Bissell
Counterpoint, 04/01/2006
 
The heartrending story of the forbidden love between a nun and a priest - by a writer who illuminates the details of everyday life. On the day ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Wright 3
by Blue Balliett, illustrated by Brett Helquist
Scholastic, 04/01/2006
 
Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Through a Glass Darkly: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/01/2006
 
Donna Leon opens doors to the hidden Venice like no one else. With her latest novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, Leon takes us inside the secretive ...more
Mysteries
Untold Stories
by Alan Bennett
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/01/2006
 
Untold Stories brings together some of the finest and funniest writing by one of England's best-known literary figures. Alan Bennett's first major ...more
Essays
Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Bloomsbury USA, 04/04/2006
 
Akimbo has handled lions and elephants in his home in the plains of southern Africa, but his newest adventure pits him against even deadlier beasts --...more
Literary Fiction
Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
by Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier
Harmony Books, 04/04/2006
 
There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have ...more
Advice
Challenger Park
by Stephen Harrigan
Knopf, 04/04/2006
 
From the author of the acclaimed The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into ...more
Literary Fiction
Don't Look Down
by Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer
St. Martin's Press, 04/04/2006
 
Lucy Sullivan is a director of television commercials who's just been offered her big break: a chance to direct an action movie. But she arrives ...more
Romance
Hey, Good Looking
by Fern Michaels
Pocket Books, 04/04/2006
 
With lively prose, unforgettable characters, and a touch of mischievous wit, Fern Michaels creates vivid reading experiences in all of her acclaimed ...more
Romance
Hitched: A Regan Reilly Mystery
by Carol Higgins Clark & Reagan Reilly
Scribner, 04/04/2006
 
The date is Saturday, April 2. Five April brides discover their wedding dresses have been stolen. One of the brides is private investigator Regan ...more
Mysteries
Jesus Dynasty: A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity
by James D. Tabor
Simon & Schuster, 04/04/2006
 
Based on a careful analysis of the earliest Christian documents and recent archaeological discoveries, The Jesus Dynasty offers a bold new ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
by Ronald Kessler
Doubleday, 04/04/2006
 
Offers a remarkable look at the private world of this famously reserved woman, as well as the beliefs and attitudes that shape it. The book will ...more
Biography/Memoir
Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now
by Joyce Meyer
FaithWords, 04/04/2006
 
Our bodies are our God-given instruments for experiencing a fulfilling life, for doing good works, and for spiritual development. God's plan for ...more
Advice
Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with the Man Who Led Mossad
by Efraim Halevy
St. Martin's Press, 04/04/2006
 
Israel's Mossad is thought by many to be one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world. In Man in the Shadows, Efraim Halevy—a ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Prisoner of Memory
by Denise Hamilton
Scribner, 04/04/2006
 
While investigating the sighting of a mountain lion in L.A.'s Griffith Park, Eve comes across the body of a teenage boy who has been shot to death ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Shiver
by Lisa Jackson
Kensington, 04/04/2006
 
Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya is back in New Orleans. Thanks to years of working with the dark side of society, his youthful swagger is gone, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Romance
The Last Cato
by Matilde Asensi, translated by Pamela Carmell
Rayo, 04/04/2006
 
Holy relics are disappearing from sacred spots around the world -- and the Vatican will do whatever it takes to stop thieves from their incredible ...more
Thrillers
The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved
by Fay Vincent
Simon & Schuster, 04/04/2006
 
In this delightful book that every baseball fan will cherish, ten outstanding ballplayers remember the heyday of the game in the 1930s and 1940s.
Other
Two Little Girls in Blue
by Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, 04/04/2006
 
Mary Higgins Clark weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead.

Margaret and Steve Frawley ...more
Thrillers
We Are All Welcome Here
by Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 04/04/2006
 
Features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.

It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the ...more
Literary Fiction
Miss Julia Stands Her Ground
by Ann B Ross
Viking, 04/06/2006
 
Miss Julia Stands Her Ground finds our steel magnolia looking forward to many peaceful and happy years with her new husband, Sam. But she still has ...more
Mysteries
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
by Ann K. Finkbeiner
Viking, 04/06/2006
 
They call themselves Jason. Their group is a child of the Manhattan Project by way of the cold war, and they have counted among their ranks scientific...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Saving The World
by Julia Alvarez
Shannon Ravenel Books, 04/07/2006
 
Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist transplanted to the United States, is writing another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband works for a...more
Literary Fiction
Charmed Thirds
by Megan McCafferty
Crown, 04/11/2006
 
Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she's more ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Cirque du Soleil, the Spark: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives Within Us All
by Lyn Heward & John Bacon
Currency, 04/11/2006
 
An inspiring tale about the power of creativity and the imagination.

As The Spark makes clear, there is no single formula for creative success--...more
Advice
Dark Harbor
by Stuart Woods
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/11/2006
 
Stone Barrington investigates the secrets of a CIA officer's suicide.
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Red Azalea
by Anchee Min
Anchor Books, 04/11/2006
 
Red Azalea is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted
by Bonnie Fuller
Fireside, 04/11/2006
 
A business powerhouse and mother of four who has led America's most popular magazines -- including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly, and Star -- to ...more
Advice
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Penguin, 04/11/2006
 
The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century.

...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poetry
by Mark Haddon
Anchor Books, 04/11/2006
 
Reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Death in Belmont
by Sebastian Junger
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/18/2006
 
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Mammoth Murder
by Bill Crider
Minotaur Books, 04/18/2006
 
One hot summer morning, big, tough Bud Turley brings an enormous tooth into the Blacklin County police station and asks Sheriff Dan Rhodes to keep it ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Firefly Cloak
by Sheri Reynolds
Shaye Areheart Books, 04/18/2006
 
Single mother, Sheila, both an alcoholic and drug addict deserts her two young children in a campground in Alabama - 8-year-old Tessa Lee and todler ...more
Literary Fiction
Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals: What to Keep on Hand, What to Buy Fresh for the Easiest-Ever 30-Minute Meals
by Rachael Ray
Clarkson Potter, 04/18/2006
 
Rachael Ray is back and speedier than ever! With her latest batch of recipes, the Food Network phenomenon takes her beloved 30-Minute-Meal concept to ...more
Other
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
by Stuart Kelly
Random House, 04/18/2006
 
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and ...more
Essays
The Debutante Divorcee
by Plum Sykes
Miramax, 04/18/2006
 
The author of Bergdorf Blondes returns with a follow up..... Lauren Blount's life is beautifully arranged: she's very rich, very young, very ...more
Literary Fiction
The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
by Mike Leonard
Ballantine Books, 04/18/2006
 
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an ...more
Biography/Memoir
Writing to Change the World
by Mary Pipher
Riverhead Books, 04/20/2006
 
From the author of Reviving Ophelia. In these tumultuous times, don't we all want to be heard? Who doesn't want to transform the world? And ...more
Advice
Poison
by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/24/2006
 
The death of flamboyant writer and womanizer Peter Grosvenor sets in motion a series of spiraling events surrounding his legacy and his estate. His ...more
Literary Fiction
A Writer's Life
by Gay Talese
Knopf, 04/25/2006
 
Veteran reporter Talese considers all of the factors that come into play in getting a story.
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
by David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster, 04/25/2006
 
On New Year's Eve, 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane ...more
Biography/Memoir
Promise Me
by Harlan Coben
Dutton, 04/25/2006
 
The school year is almost over. Anxious families await word of college acceptances. In these last pressure-cooker months of high school, some kids ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
by Simon Schama
Ecco, 04/25/2006
 
Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vanished
by Karen Robards
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/25/2006
 
Romantic Thriller. Ten years ago, Sarah Mason's six-year-old daughter vanished during an outing at a local park in Beaufort, South Carolina. ...more
Romance
The American Home Front: 1941-1942
by Alistair Cooke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/28/2006
 
From the famous BBC correspondent and television host comes a remarkably insightful and detailed firsthand portrait of America during the early days ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Death of Achilles: The Fourth Erast Fandorin Mystery
by Boris Akunin
Random House, 04/28/2006
 
In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother ...more
Mysteries
Beach Road
by James Patterson & Peter de Jonge
Little Brown & Company, 05/01/2006
 
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small--occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to ...more
Thrillers
Cage of Stars
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Grand Central Publishing, 05/01/2006
 
12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although ...more
Literary Fiction
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers
by Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 05/01/2006
 
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. ...more
Other
Dark Tort
by Diane Mott Davidson
William Morrow, 05/01/2006
 
Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference-room snacks for a local law firm. It's time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Dead Center
by David Rosenfelt
Mysterious Press, 05/01/2006
 
Bitter over the departure of Laurie, Andy's finding it hard to forgive and forget. She’s still the love of his life. He's had no contact with her...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Edge of Battle
by Dale Brown
William Morrow, 05/01/2006
 
Violence and tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of ...more
Thrillers
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
by James Carroll
Houghton Mifflin, 05/01/2006
 
This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
by Peter Hessler
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/01/2006
 
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Possible Side Effects
by Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Press, 05/01/2006
 
Doll collecting. The Tooth Fairy. Incontinent dogs. eBay addiction. Hot cardiologists. Available locksmiths. Lesbian personal ads. Junior Mints. Blind...more
Critics' Consensus:

Essays
Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation
by Avi
Harcourt Children's Books, 05/01/2006
 
Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces herself back together, and the identity of a mysterious baseball mascot is ...more
Short Stories
Tenth City: Land of Elyon Book 3
by Patrick Carman
Orchard Books, 05/01/2006
 
The Land of Elyon has begun to fail, poisoned by the evil that creeps across the Dark Hills and into Bridewell. As she moves toward a thrilling ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bookwoman's Last Fling
by John Dunning
Scribner, 05/01/2006
 
When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Laura Rankin
Bloomsbury USA, 05/01/2006
 
9-year-old Harriet lives alone with her father, an absentminded inventor of extraordinary but useless things. When Harriet's father tells her one day ...more
Literary Fiction
The Great American Mousical
by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, illustrated by Tony Walton
Julie Andrews Collection, 05/01/2006
 
Far beneath the bright lights of Broadway, in the deepest recesses of the Sovereign, sits a long-forgotten and (if truth be told, slightly decrepit) ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer & Clemens Hoges,
Harcourt, 05/01/2006
 
Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Simple Act of Murder: November 22, 1963
by Mark Fuhrman
William Morrow, 05/02/2006
 
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Absurdistan: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
Random House, 05/02/2006
 
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Friendship
by Bob Greene
William Morrow, 05/02/2006
 
A highly personal and moving true story of memory and friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School.
Critics' Consensus:

Advice
Bad Twin
by Gary Troup
Hyperion, 05/02/2006
 
Paul Artisan, P.I. is a new version of an old breed -- a righter of wrongs, someone driven to get to the bottom of things. Too bad his usual cases are...more
Mysteries
Digging To America
by Anne Tyler
Knopf, 05/02/2006
 
In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
District and Circle: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/02/2006
 
Seamus Heaney’s new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish
by G. Bruce Knecht
Rodale Books, 05/02/2006
 
This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Say a Little Prayer: A Novel
by E. Lynn Harris
Doubleday, 05/02/2006
 
Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today’s toughest and ...more
Literary Fiction
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni
Random House, 05/02/2006
 
The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Malinche
by Laura Esquivel
Atria Books, 05/02/2006
 
When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortés, she -- like many -- believes that he is the ...more
Literary Fiction
Play, Mozart, Play!
by Peter Sis
Greenwillow Books, 05/02/2006
 
Acclaimed artist Peter Sís introduces very young children to the child genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in this picture book tribute to the beauty ...more
Literary Fiction
Rainbows End: A Novel With One Foot In The Future
by Vernor Vinge
Tor Books, 05/02/2006
 
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shanks for Nothing
by Rick Reilly
Doubleday, 05/02/2006
 
Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Strange Piece of Paradise
by Terri Jentz
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/02/2006
 
In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate took a cross-country bike trip. As they lay sleeping in the central Oregon desert, a man in a...more
Critics' Consensus:

True Crime
Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
Knopf, 05/02/2006
 
Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why will sighted people pay more to avoid ...more
Advice
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
by Leigh Montville
Doubleday, 05/02/2006
 
He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. [A] thoroughly original, ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
by Madeleine Albright
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/02/2006
 
Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
The One that Got Away
by Howell Raines
Scribner, 05/02/2006
 
Confronting loss -- of an elusive fish or something larger -- is at the heart of The One That Got Away, the graceful sequel to Raines's much-loved, ...more
Biography/Memoir
What to Eat
by Marion Nestle
North Point Press, 05/02/2006
 
How do we decide what foods to eat? In recent years, this simple question has become complicated beyond belief—as supermarkets have grown to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
In Plain Sight
by C.J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/04/2006
 
J. W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He blames one man for the death of his brother: Joe Pickett. And now J. W. is going to make him suffer. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade
by Ann Fessler
Penguin, 05/04/2006
 
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption in ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father
by Chris Lemmon
Algonquin Books, 05/05/2006
 
Jack Lemmon was arguably one of the most famous film stars of the second half of the twentieth century. When Jack Lemmon died in 2001, the world lost...more
Biography/Memoir
Ludmila's Broken English
by DBC Pierre
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/08/2006
 
On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in the ...more
Literary Fiction
Everyman
by Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 05/09/2006
 
"I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five." Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Fergus Crane: Far-Flung Adventures
by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
David Fickling Books, 05/09/2006
 
Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life - having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hit The Road
by Caroline B. Cooney
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 05/09/2006
 
A heartwarming look at friendship, both young and old. Brit has had her driver’s license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Viking, 05/09/2006
 
The startling story of the Plymouth Colony, from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England, from the bestselling author of ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
by Nando Parrado
Crown, 05/09/2006
 
Given up for dead after an air crash in the Andes in 1972, Nando Parrado not only survived but showed the strength and determination that saved his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
My Dad and Me: A Heartwarming Collection of Stories About Fathers from a Host of Larry's Famous Friends
by Larry King
Crown, 05/09/2006
 
Larry King asked more than 120 celebrated and successful people about their favorite memories of their fathers. Their recollections are rich with life...more
Essays
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong
by John Stossel
Hyperion, 05/09/2006
 
Consumer advocate, investigative reporter, and bestselling author John Stossel is back with a new book based on his top-rated 20/20 segment, which ...more
Other
The Attack
by Yasmina Khadra
Nan A. Talese, 05/09/2006
 
The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics,...more
Literary Fiction
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
by Douglas Brinkley
William Morrow, 05/09/2006
 
Brinkley rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes--...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pro: Lessons from My Father About Golf and Life
by Butch Harmon with Steve Eubanks
Crown, 05/09/2006
 
Butch Harmon is the world’s number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and,...more
Advice
The Prophet of Yonwood: The Third Book of Ember
by Jeanne Duprau
Random House, 05/09/2006
 
It’s 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Realm of Possibility
by David Levithan
Knopf, 05/09/2006
 
Here's what I know about the realm of possibility—
it is always expanding, it is never what you think 
it is. Everything around ...more
Short Stories
The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
by Turk Pipkin & Willie Nelson
Gotham Books, 05/09/2006
 
National icon Willie Nelson has evolved over the years from country music outlaw swimming against a Whiskey River to a Zen-like figure of wisdom and ...more
Advice
The Trial of True Love
by William Nicholson
Nan A. Talese, 05/09/2006
 
Bron is a thirty-year-old writer living in London, a seemingly incurable heartbreaker and dodger of commitment. He is fascinated by the symbolist ...more
Literary Fiction
Double Eagle: The Epic Story of the World's Most Valuable Coin
by Alison Frankel
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/15/2006
 
Stolen from the U.S. Mint in the depths of the Great Depression, shipped via diplomatic pouch to Egypt, hidden for forty years, seized in a 1996 ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
by Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss
Little Brown & Company, 05/15/2006
 
The Pulitzer Prize-winning true story of one army unit in Vietnam is transformed here into a masterful narrative of compelling drama and sweep. Told ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Watch
by John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/16/2006
 
Early morning, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former U.S. Senator, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
JPod: A Novel
by Douglas Coupland
Bloomsbury USA, 05/16/2006
 
Douglas Coupland’s new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google... Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Killer Instinct
by Joseph Finder
St. Martin's Press, 05/16/2006
 
Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant. To the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
by John M. Gottman, John Gottman & Joan DeClaire
Crown, 05/16/2006
 
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and ...more
Advice
The Eagle's Throne
by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Kristina Cordero
Random House, 05/16/2006
 
In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico’s idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Hard Way
by Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 05/16/2006
 
Ex-military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow...more
Literary Fiction
The King of Lies
by John Hart
Minotaur Books, 05/16/2006
 
John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Man of My Dreams :
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House, 05/16/2006
 
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah’s own life, her ...more
Literary Fiction
The Quillan Games: Pendragon Series
by D. J. MacHale
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/16/2006
 
Bobby Pendragon has chased the demon Saint Dane to the territory of Quillan, and to a mysterious city where people gamble on games with their most ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
by Neil Hanson
Knopf, 05/16/2006
 
The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity that unleashed such demons as mechanized warfare and mass death on the twentieth century....more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
by June Cross
Viking, 05/18/2006
 
Secret Daughter is a deftly drawn and moving portrait of a childhood spent in two very different worlds: one white, one black. In 1957, when June ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen
by Michael Ruhlman
Viking, 05/18/2006
 
Beginning at Per Se, the newest and most expensive of Manhattan’s four-star restaurants, Ruhlman takes readers into some of America’s most ...more
Other
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I) : From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
by William J. Bennett
Thomas Nelson, 05/23/2006
 
America, how well do you know your history? In his Farewell Address, Ronald Reagan said if we forget what we have done, we will forget who we are. ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
At Risk: Win Garano Series #1
by Patricia Cornwell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/23/2006
 
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His ...more
Thrillers
Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
by James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 05/23/2006
 
The Angel Experiment was just a test drive... Now, brace yourself for the MAXIMUM ride! James Patterson shifts high action into overdrive in this ...more
Thrillers
Mortimer of the Maghreb
by Henry Shukman
Knopf, 05/23/2006
 
An exciting fiction debut: a collection of psychologically complex, often darkly comic stories that take us into the self-made Edens of travelers ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
On, Off
by Colleen McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 05/23/2006
 
At the heart of this brilliant blend of suspense, forensic science, eerie and sadistic sexuality, and good old-fashioned storytelling is a dedicated ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Sweet Sixteen Princess: A Princess Diaries Book
by Meg Cabot
HarperTeen, 05/23/2006
 
Mia doesn't always have the best luck with parties, so even though it's her sweet sixteenth, she doesn't want a birthday bash. As usual, Grandmè...more
Literary Fiction
The Foreshadowing
by Marcus Sedgwick
Wendy Lamb Books, 05/23/2006
 
It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Pale Blue Eye
by Louis Bayard
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/23/2006
 
At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. The next ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Possibility of an Island
by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd
Knopf, 05/23/2006
 
A tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.

Having made a fortune producing comedies that ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Blow the House Down: A Novel
by Robert Baer
Crown, 05/30/2006
 
Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a ...more
Thrillers
Dark Side of the Moon: A Dark-Hunter Novel
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
St. Martin's Press, 05/30/2006
 
Susan Michaels was once the hottest reporter on the Beltway Beat until a major scandal ruined her life and left her writing stories about alien babies...more
Romance
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
Knopf, 05/30/2006
 
Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs—had long thought of himself as a reasonably comfortable cook when in...more
Critics' Consensus:

Other
Killer Dreams
by Iris Johansen
Bantam Books, 05/30/2006
 
An adrenaline-laced shocker that pits a mother and son against a killer who’s the stuff of nightmares.
Thrillers
Love in the Present Tense
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Flying Dolphin Press, 05/30/2006
 
Is it possible to love the people who can’t always be there for us? The answers will surprise and move you. Ultimately, this novel’s richest...more
Literary Fiction
Marked Man
by William Lashner
William Morrow, 05/30/2006
 
All Victor Carl knows is that he’s just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
by Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 05/30/2006
 
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Greener Shore: A Novel of the Druids of Hibernia
by Morgan Llywelyn
Del Rey, 05/30/2006
 
A sequel to Druids (1991).
Literary Fiction
The Love Season
by Elin Hilderbrand
St. Martin's Press, 05/30/2006
 
It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever.

Marguerite Beale, ...more
Romance
Unsafe Harbor
by Jessica Speart
Severn House, 05/31/2006
 
Spirited US Fish and Wildlife agent Rachel Porter is back in her native New York following the trail of murderous smugglers.
Thrillers
Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart
by Donald McRae
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/01/2006
 
Many people remember the beaming face of Christiaan Barnard, the South African surgeon, after he performed the first human heart transplant, and ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
F.U.B.A.R: America's Right-Wing Nightmare
by Sam Seder & Stephen Sherrill
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2006
 
The United States has survived clueless presidential administrations before. But no matter how enormous the crisis -- the Great Depression, Vietnam, ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched
by Amy Sutherland
Viking, 06/01/2006
 
Behind the imposing gate of the Exotic Animal Training Program at California’s Moorpark College lies a kingdom full of small mysteries, deep ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction
by Martin Gilbert
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2006
 
On November 7, 1938, a young Jew, enraged by his family's expulsion from Germany, walked into the German embassy in Paris and fired five shots at ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Old Filth
by Jane Gardam
Europa Editions, 06/01/2006
 
Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge, living out his last ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
She May Not Leave
by Fay Weldon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/01/2006
 
Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, ...more
Literary Fiction
Telegraph Days
by Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster, 06/01/2006
 
A big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West - at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but ...more
Literary Fiction
The Book of The Dead
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing, 06/01/2006
 
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole ...more
Thrillers
The Collaborative Way to Divorce: The Revolutionary Method that Results in Less Stress, Lower Costs, and Happier Kids--Without Going to Court (Hardcover)
by Ron Ousky, Stuart Webb
Hudson Street Press, 06/01/2006
 
Research reveals that how a couple conducts themselves during a divorce has far greater impact on their children than the divorce itself. ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
by Peter Beinart
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2006
 
Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Husband
by Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 06/01/2006
 
"We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash". Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Last Assassin: A John Rain Thriller
by Barry Eisler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/01/2006
 
When Japanese/American contract killer John Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate
Doubleday, 06/01/2006
 
No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Harcourt, 06/01/2006
 
"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition"...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night
by James Patterson
Mira, 06/01/2006
 
Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-...more
Short Stories
Touchy Subjects: Stories
by Emma Donoghue
Harcourt, 06/01/2006
 
In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
The DIN in the Head
by Cynthia Ozick
Houghton Mifflin, 06/02/2006
 
One of America's foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Essays
Blue Screen: A Sunny Randall Novel
by Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/06/2006
 
Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
by Ann Coulter
Crown Forum, 06/06/2006
 
The most explosive book yet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Coulter. In this completely original and thoroughly controversial work, ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Olivia Forms a Band
by Ian Falconer
Atheneum Books, 06/06/2006
 
Everyone's favorite Caldecott-winning porcine diva is back and with fanfare! There are going to be fireworks ...more
Literary Fiction
On the Couch
by Lorraine Bracco
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/06/2006
 
In this engaging memoir, Lorraine opens up about her career, her marriages, her determination to be a good mother, and her refusal to be marginalized ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Last Summer (of You & Me)
by Anne Brashares
Riverhead Books, 06/06/2006
 
The Girl of Lost Things tells the story of Gracie Martin, a New Yorker who has a gift for returning lost objects to their rightful owners. It's a ...more
Literary Fiction
The Saboteurs: Men at War Series
by WEB Griffin, William Butterworth IV
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/06/2006
 
The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting down and sinking U.S. supply ships, and ships are being burned at ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Baby Proof
by Emily Giffin
St. Martin's Press, 06/13/2006
 
Claudia and Ben are the perfect couple. Ever since their first date, when they both admitted they had no desire ...more
Literary Fiction
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
by Chuck Klosterman
Scribner, 06/13/2006
 
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to ...more
Biography/Memoir
Real Food: What to Eat and Why
by Nina Planck
Bloomsbury USA, 06/13/2006
 
Everyone loves real food, but they’re afraid butter and eggs will give them a heart attack—thus the ...more
Advice
Seminary Boy
by John Cornwell
Doubleday, 06/13/2006
 
Born into a working class family, at the age of thirteen years old Cornwell was sent to Cotton College, a remote ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Shadow Man
by Cody Mcfadyen
Bantam Books, 06/13/2006
 
Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best–until a madman terrorized her family, killed her ...more
Thrillers
Showdown
by Tilly Bagshawe
Grand Central Publishing, 06/13/2006
 
Land rich but cash poor, Bobby travels the world trying to raise money to support his beloved ranch by taking jobs breaking horses for their wealthy ...more
Romance
Swapping Lives
by Jane Green
Viking, 06/13/2006
 
Swapping Lives is a riotous and poignant look at what happens when two women, both of whom think their bliss lies elsewhere, walk in each other’s...more
Romance
The Wrong Hostage
by Elizabeth Lowell
William Morrow, 06/13/2006
 
Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace ...more
Romance
Alentejo Blue: Fiction
by Monica Ali
Scribner, 06/20/2006
 
Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story of displacement and modernization told through the lives of the locals and of people who ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The One Percent Doctrine
by Ron Suskind
Simon & Schuster, 06/20/2006
 
Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. government - from President...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
by Ilario Pantano
Threshold Editions, 06/20/2006
 
This is the powerful true story of the Marine lieutenant who, having fought for his country in the first Gulf War, went on to professional success in ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Londonstani: A Novel
by Gautam Malkani
Penguin, 06/22/2006
 
Jas is in trouble. Because of who he is - an eighteen-year-old Asian living in London. Because of the gang he hangs out with. And because of the woman...more
Literary Fiction
The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi
by Alexander Stille
Penguin, 06/22/2006
 
Imagine if the president of the United States was also the Senate majority leader, possessed Rupert Murdoch's and Mike Bloomberg's media holdings, was...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Order: A Novel
by James Rollins
William Morrow, 06/27/2006
 
A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Cover of Night
by Linda Howard
Ballantine Books, 06/27/2006
 
In a tiny Idaho community, widowed mother Cate Nightingale owns and operates a struggling bed-and-breakfast; ...more
Romance
Every Secret Thing: A Novel
by Lila Shaara
Ballantine Books, 06/27/2006
 
Gina Paletta should have been used to upheaval. From her childhood in a small southern town to her career in Manhattan’s modeling world to ...more
Literary Fiction
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
by Jan Gross
Random House, 06/27/2006
 
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result....more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lilah: Canaan Trilogy
by Marek Halter
Crown, 06/27/2006
 
Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. But her brother does not want her to marry ...more
Literary Fiction
Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind
by Judy Finchler
Walker & Company, 06/27/2006
 
Principal Wiggins has promised to dye his hair purple and sleep on the school roof if the students read 1,000 books this year, and Miss Malarkey is ...more
Literary Fiction
No Good Deeds: A Tess Monaghan Novel
by Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 06/27/2006
 
For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First
by Derrick Parker
St. Martin's Press, 06/27/2006
 
The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion and even murder, in today's world rappers need rap...more
Biography/Memoir
Proof Positive
by Phillip Margolin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/27/2006
 
Respected forensic expert Bernard Cashman, who works for the Oregon State Crime Laboratory, has developed a personal philosophy that allows him to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Sandcastles
by Luanne Rice
Bantam Books, 06/27/2006
 
Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters – Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia –...more
Romance
The Candle of Distant Earth
by Alan Dean Foster
Del Rey, 06/27/2006
 
The last installment of the Taken trilogy (after The Light-years Beneath My Feet, 2005 ).

more
Literary Fiction
The Highly Effective Detective
by Richard Yancey
Minotaur Books, 06/27/2006
 
After his ailing mother dies, Teddy quits his job as a night watchman to fulfill his childhood dream of being a detective. With little planning and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
 Debut Author
The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War
by Sir Martin Gilbert
Henry Holt and Company, 06/27/2006
 
At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man’s...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Traitor: A Tommy Carmellini Novel
by Stephen Coonts
St. Martin's Press, 06/27/2006
 
Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other—and against the CIA. When the ...more
Thrillers
Too Darn Hot
by Sandra Scoppettone
Ballantine Books, 06/27/2006
 
It’s the middle of World War II, but not all the killing is happening overseas. In a sweltering New York City...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea
by George Lakoff
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/27/2006
 
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word “freedom.” The United States can strike preemptively ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Winkie
by Clifford Chase
Grove Press, 06/28/2006
 
Winkie is a mild-mannered teddy bear who finds himself on the wrong side of America's war on terror. After suffering decades of neglect from the ...more
Literary Fiction
The Dead Hour
by Denise Mina
Little Brown & Company, 07/01/2006
 
Paddy Meehan arrives at an elegant villa, where a calm blonde with blood running from her mouth answers the door. She has already convinced the police...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Vanishing Point
by Marcia Muller
Mysterious Press, 07/01/2006
 
For a Nevada wedding, the nuptials between Sharon McCone and sexy fellow investigator Hy Ripinsky are downright tasteful: no Elvis impersonators, no ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Wives Behaving Badly
by Elizabeth Buchan, Karen Katz
Viking, 07/01/2006
 
American readers fell in love with Elizabeth Buchan's Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Now, with the delicious sequel, Buchan answers the age-old ...more
Literary Fiction
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
by Faiza Guene
Harvest Books, 07/03/2006
 
The Paradise projects are only a few metro stops from Paris, but here it's a whole different kind of France. Doria's father, has headed back to their ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Learning to Kill: Stories
by Ed McBain
Harcourt, 07/03/2006
 
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was ...more
Short Stories
The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation
by Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/03/2006
 
In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with ...more
Literary Fiction
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
by Madeline Levine
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/03/2006
 
Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for twenty-five years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy ...more
Advice
When the Devil Holds the Candle: Inspector Sejer Mysteries
by Karin Fossum
Harcourt, 07/03/2006
 
When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble, and yet are unaware of the enormity of their ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel
by Fannie Flagg
Random House, 07/04/2006
 
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an ...more
Literary Fiction
Break No Bones: A Temperance Brennan Novel
by Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 07/11/2006
 
Temperance Brennan is stuck teaching a lackluster archaeology field school in the ruins of a Native American burial ground. But when Tempe stumbles ...more
Thrillers
Conservatives Without Conscience
by John Dean
Viking, 07/11/2006
 
Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington politics and process to examine the conservative movement's current inner ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Errors and Omissions: A Novel
by Paul Goldstein
Doubleday, 07/11/2006
 
Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists’ rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator—and a man on the brink of personal and ...more
Thrillers
 Debut Author
Espresso Tales
by Alexander McCall-Smith
Anchor Books, 07/11/2006
 
Back are all our favorite denizens of a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh. Bertie the immensely talented six year old is now enrolled in kindergarten, ...more
Literary Fiction
Lights Out Tonight
by Mary Jane Clark
St. Martin's Press, 07/11/2006
 
As KEY News film and theater critic, Caroline Enright knows her opinions have influenced the box office habits of millions of Americans. She has taken...more
Mysteries
Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/11/2006
 
Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia,...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Hot Flash Club Chills Out: A Novel
by Nancy Thayer
Ballantine Books, 07/11/2006
 
Who knew that housesitting on Nantucket one summer would create such chaos for the indomitable members of the Hot Flash Club?
Literary Fiction
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson
Hyperion, 07/11/2006
 
"The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are ...more
Advice
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice
by Chad Millman
Little Brown & Company, 07/12/2006
 
In 1916, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Peter and the Shadow Thieves
by Dave Barry, , Greg Call, Ridley Pearson
Disney Editions, 07/15/2006
 
In this follow-up to Peter and the Starcatchers, we discover Peter leaving the relative safety of Mollusk Island—along with his trusted ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Weimar in Exile: Exile in Europe, Exile in America
by Jean-Michel Palmier
Verso, 07/15/2006
 
In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
by Mark Victor Hansen, Art Linkletter
Thomas Nelson, 07/17/2006
 
Art Linkletter and Mark Victor Hansen team up to inspire readers to embrace their old age, finding joy, power, and purpose for the second half of life...more
Advice
Phantom: Sword Of Truth
by Terry Goodkind
Tor Books, 07/18/2006
 
On the day that she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Knopf, 07/18/2006
 
The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
by Kris Holloway
Waveland Press, 07/20/2006
 
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and ...more
Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Crisis
by Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/25/2006
 
The inventor of the medical thriller shows us a healer's dark side: the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies.
Thrillers
Dead Wrong: A Novel of Suspense (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
by J. A. Jance
William Morrow, 07/25/2006
 
Juggling a family and a career is never easy -- and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. First, the body of an unidentified man is...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Girl, Going on 17: Pants on Fire
by Sue Limb
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 07/25/2006
 
It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end. Particularly when one argues with one’s boyfriend the night before school starts. Jess doesn...more
Literary Fiction
Insight: Case Files from the Psychic World
by Sylvia Browne
Dutton, 07/25/2006
 
It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end. Particularly when one argues with one’s boyfriend the night before school starts. Jess doesn...more
Biography/Memoir
The Assassins Gallery
by David L. Robbins
Bantam Books, 07/25/2006
 
New Year’s Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a raging nor’easter. Cool and efficient, she’s a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Definitive Book of Body Language: How to Read Others' Attitudes by Their Gestures
by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
Bantam Books, 07/25/2006
 
Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence...more
Advice
The Power Broker
by Stephen Frey
Ballantine Books, 07/25/2006
 
Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
by James Lovelock
Basic Books, 07/25/2006
 
Gaia Theory tells us that the entire Earth, including the atmosphere, oceans, biosphere and upper layers of rock, functions as a single living ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Driftless Area
by Tom Drury
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/28/2006
 
A wry and sophisticated heist drama, set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre...more
Literary Fiction
The Expected One: Book I of the Magdalene Line
by Kathleen McGowan
Touchstone, 07/28/2006
 
Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Judge and Jury
by James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Little Brown & Company, 07/31/2006
 
Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss "The Electrician," when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI ...more
Thrillers
An Iliad
by Alessandro Baricco, translated by Ann Goldstein
Knopf, 08/01/2006
 
Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Disco for the Departed
by Colin Cotterill
Soho Press, 08/01/2006
 
Dr Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Ghosthunters And The Incredibly Revolting Ghost
by Cornelia Funke
The Chicken House, 08/01/2006
 
Nine-year-old Tom can't catch a break: He's a klutz, his sister Lola pretty much hates his guts, and--and this is a BIG "and"--he just found a ghost ...more
Literary Fiction
Happiness Sold Separately
by Lolly Winston
Grand Central Publishing, 08/01/2006
 
Elinor Mackey has lived her life in perfect order: college, law school, marriage, successful corporate career. But suddenly her world is falling apart...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
Knopf, 08/01/2006
 
A candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's History and Future
by Newt Gingrich
Thomas Nelson, 08/01/2006
 
Gingrich sounds a clarion call for us to recognize that the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness that we hold so dear are inseparable from a ...more
Other
The Dissident: A Novel
by Nell Freudenberger
Ecco, 08/01/2006
 
From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity, and the shining chaos of...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Babylon by Bus: Or, the True Story of Two Friends Who Gave Up Their Valuable Franchise Selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts at Fenway to Find Meaning and Adventure in Iraq
by Jeff Neumann, Donovan Webster, Ray LeMoine
Penguin, 08/03/2006
 
The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Polio: An American Story
by David M. Oshinsky
Oxford University Press, 08/03/2006
 
All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Snow Blind
by P J Tracy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/03/2006
 
Nothing's bleaker than Minneapolis during the winter, the season that, to some longtime residents, lasts eleven months of the year. So what better way...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
Viking, 08/03/2006
 
Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. The Gingerbreadman—...more
Literary Fiction
What Colleges Don't Tell you (And Other Parents Don't Want You to Know): 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid into the Top Schools
by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
Hudson Street Press, 08/03/2006
 
Based on the controversial insider information Elizabeth Wissner-Gross has gleaned from working for years as a successful packager of high school ...more
Advice
Dzur: Vlad Taltos #10
by Steven Brust
Tor Books, 08/08/2006
 
Vlad Taltos, short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, has always had to keep his wits about him. Long ago, he ...more
Literary Fiction
Inside: Life Behind Bars in America
by Michael G. Santos
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2006
 
American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by Julie Phillips
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2006
 
James Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Jared, the Subway Guy, Winning Through Losing: 13 Lessons for Turning Your Life Around
by Jared Fogle
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2006
 
As an obese college student in Indiana Jared lost 245 pounds on a self-devised diet of Subway sandwiches. Since 2000, he has appeared thousands of ...more
Advice
Knights of the Black and White: Book I of the Templar Trilogy
by Jack Whyte
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/08/2006
 
The first of a planned trilogy chronicling the birth of the Knights Templar opening in 1088, as Hugh St. Clair, a French nobleman, joins a mysterious ...more
Literary Fiction
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes
by Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2006
 
Sexy. Diva. Boy-crazy. Shopper. The image of girls and girlhood that is being packaged and sold to your daughter isn't pretty in pink. Its ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Advice
Second Wave: Acorna's Children series #9
by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth A. Scarborough
Eos, 08/08/2006
 
It is difficult growing up in the shadow of heroes revered throughout the galaxy. But that is the lot of young Khorii - daughter of the legendary ...more
Literary Fiction
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 08/08/2006
 
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
by Alexandra Robbins
Hyperion, 08/08/2006
 
In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghost Dancer
by John Case
Ballantine Books, 08/15/2006
 
Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth - and came back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Into The Storm
by Suzanne Brockmann
Ballantine Books, 08/15/2006
 
In a remote, frozen corner of New Hampshire, a Navy SEAL team and the elite security experts of Troubleshooters, Incorporated are going head-to-head ...more
Romance
La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
by Beppe Severgnini
Broadway Books, 08/15/2006
 
You won't need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini's fellow Italians. In fact, Beppe would ...more
Advice
Mask Market: A Burke Novel
by Andrew Vachss
Pantheon Books, 08/15/2006
 
They meet in a no-name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Overcoming Life's Disappointments
by Harold S. Kushner
Knopf, 08/15/2006
 
Shows us how to be our best selves even when things don’t turn out as we had hoped—that is, how we can overcome life’s disappointments....more
Critics' Consensus:

Advice
Ricochet
by Sandra Brown
Simon & Schuster, 08/15/2006
 
Ricochet's plot twists -- as only Sandra Brown can write them -- and palpable suspense combine to create this gripping thriller, in which a decent cop...more
Romance
Triptych
by Karin Slaughter
Delacorte Press, 08/15/2006
 
From Atlanta's wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child
by Alissa Quart
Penguin, 08/17/2006
 
Alissa Quart breaks the news about an issue that will be of urgent concern to parents and educators as well as adult readers with "gifted" pasts: the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Meaning of the 21st Century
by James Martin
Riverhead Books, 08/17/2006
 
James Martin tells us that we are living in a turning point in human history. "We are traveling at breakneck speed into an era of extremes - extremes ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coronado
by Dennis Lehane
Gallup Press, 08/20/2006
 
Full of the same riveting storytelling that has made his novels so popular, as well as some more literary material, this collection of Dennis Lehane's...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer
Little Brown & Company, 08/21/2006
 
For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights
by Faye Kellerman
Grand Central Publishing, 08/21/2006
 
Marks the highly anticipated return of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus in three never-before-published short mysteries, including "The Garden of Eden," ...more
Short Stories
Winter's Child: A Deborah Knott mystery
by Margaret Maron
Mysterious Press, 08/21/2006
 
On a straight stretch of North Carolina highway, in a land of military families, double-wide trailers, and fading farms, a wife beater and miscreant ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Corby Flood: Far-Flung Adventures
by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
David Fickling Books, 08/22/2006
 
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have ...more
Children's Books
Endymion Spring
by Matthew Skelton
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 08/22/2006
 
In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be ...more
Literary Fiction
Five Germanys I Have Known
by Fritz Stern
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/22/2006
 
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hunters of Dune
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books, 08/22/2006
 
Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, Hunters Of Dune will finally answer the urgent ...more
Literary Fiction
Liberation Movements
by Olen Steinhauer
Minotaur Books, 08/22/2006
 
Olen Steinhauer’s acclaimed literary crime series set in a fictional country in Eastern Europe began in the heady post--World War II era and has ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Henry Holt and Company, 08/22/2006
 
Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling ...more
Mysteries
Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811
by Bernard Cornwell
Gallup Press, 08/22/2006
 
The year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain fallen to the invader except for the coastal city of C&...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
State of Emergency: How Illegal Immigration Is Destroying America
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/22/2006
 
Patrick Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11 over three million immigrants have illegally cross our borders. Our government, paralyzed by its ...more
Other
The Afghan
by Frederick Forsyth
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/22/2006
 
When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they instantly galvanize- but to do what? They know ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Birth House: A Novel
by Ami McKay
William Morrow, 08/22/2006
 
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares. As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss ...more
Literary Fiction
The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
Grove Press, 08/22/2006
 
A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Devil's Feather
by Minette Walters
Knopf, 08/22/2006
 
In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent Connie Burns suspects a British mercenary: a man...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open
by John Feinstein
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/22/2006
 
Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson return in another fast-paced, action-packed sports mystery from bestselling sports writer John Feinstein.

...more
Mysteries
White Sister: A Shane Scully Novel
by Stephen J. Cannell
St. Martin's Press, 08/22/2006
 
Shane is no stranger to big trouble, but he’s never had to face being a cop in jail with a hit out on him, while being smeared by urban activists...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
I'll Steal You Away
by Niccolo Ammaniti, Jonathan Hunt (translator)
Gallup Press, 08/28/2006
 
Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out of town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Lost Girls Collected
by Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Top Shelf Productions, 08/28/2006
 
Can pornography be art? Can an erotic graphic novel have literary merit? Can both men and women enjoy explicit images? Moore and Gebbie set out to ...more
Other
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady
by Laura Tyson Li
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/28/2006
 
The first biography of one of history's most intriguing and controversial political figures. Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Pearls From Peoria
by Philip Jose Farmer
Subterranean Press, 08/28/2006
 
A collection of Farmer's fiction, poetry and nonfiction spanning the 1940s to the 1990s.
Short Stories
Return of the Player
by Michael Tolkin
Grove Press, 08/28/2006
 
The Player was a brilliant satire of Hollywood that has become a cult classic. Now, it's fifteen years later and film executive Griffin Mill is back. ...more
Literary Fiction
A German Requiem
by Philip Kerr
Penguin Books, 08/29/2006
 
The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy. Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Counterplay
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Gallup Press, 08/29/2006
 
When betrayal results in the cold-blooded murder of a busload of schoolchildren to accomplish the escape from custody of vicious sociopath Andrew Kane...more
Thrillers
Elizabeth
by Randy J. Taraborrelli
Grand Central Publishing, 08/29/2006
 
This moving book traces, for the first time, Elizabeth Taylor's journey through the dark and often lonely world of fame unparalleled in the 1960s and ...more
Biography/Memoir
Forest Mage: Book Two of the Soldier Son Trilogy
by Robin Hobb
Gallup Press, 08/29/2006
 
The prestigious King's Cavalla of Gernia has been ravaged by the Speck plague. The deadly disease has decimated the ranks of both cadets and ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Good Poems for Hard Times
by Garrison Keillor (editor)
Penguin Books, 08/29/2006
 
Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radios The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by John Wood
Gallup Press, 08/29/2006
 
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work—not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the...more
Biography/Memoir
Puccini's Ghosts
by Morag Joss
Delacorte Press, 08/29/2006
 
A haunting, harrowing masterpiece of psychological suspense. With equal parts subtlety and menace, Joss takes us on a dizzying journey toward a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Edge of Darkness: Babylon Rising Series
by Tim LaHaye, Bob Phillips
Bantam Books, 08/29/2006
 
Babylon Rising continues with this explosive new installment, including more revelations than ever before. In The Edge of Darkness, LaHaye reveals the...more
Thrillers
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
by Joyce Carol Oates
Gallup Press, 08/31/2006
 
Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: before the wreck and after the wreck. Before the wreck, she was leading a normal life with her ...more
Literary Fiction
Crispin: At The Edge of the World
by Avi
Gallup Press, 09/01/2006
 
He was a nameless orphan, marked for death by his masters for an unknown crime. Discovering his name -- Crispin -- only intensified the mystery. Then ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Grandfather's Dance
by Patricia MacLachlan
Gallup Press, 09/01/2006
 
Could anything be more perfect than a prairie wedding? Cassie doesn't think so. Sarah, Plain and Tall began the Witting family's saga on the prairie....more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Homework Myth
by Alfie Kohn
Gallup Press, 09/01/2006
 
A compelling expose of homework—its negative effects, why it's so widely accepted, and what we can do about it.

Death and taxes come later; what...more
Critics' Consensus:

Advice
Voices
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Gallup Press, 09/01/2006
 
Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly ...more
Literary Fiction
A Stolen Season: An Alex McKnight Novel
by Steve Hamilton
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
When Alex helps rescue the passengers of an antique wooden boat the darkest hour of his life begins. Before it's over, he'll face gun smugglers, drug ...more
Thrillers
Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She Is Changing the World
by Dan Kindlon
Rodale Books, 09/05/2006
 
There is a new type of teenage girl growing up in America today, and she is having a profound and beneficial influence on society. Thats the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dark Angels
by Karleen Koen
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in ...more
Romance
Is There Really a Human Race?
by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell
Joanna Cotler Books, 09/05/2006
 
Is there really a human race? Is it going on now all over the place? When did it start? Who said, "Ready, Set, Go"? Did it start on my birthday? ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Memorial
by Bruce Wagner
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
Deeply compassionate and violently irreverent, Memorial is a testament to faith and forgiveness, and a luminous tribute to spirituality in the twenty-...more
Literary Fiction
Some Nerve
by Jane Heller
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
Thirty-year-old celebrity journalist Ann Roth has one last chance to prove herself. She is different from the other reporters at Famous, the L.A. ...more
Literary Fiction
The Beatrice Letters: A Series of Unfortunate Events
by Lemony Snicket
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/05/2006
 
On the cusp of the last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket offers an unprecedented compilation of evidence encoded in a collection...more
Literary Fiction
The Book of Fate
by Brad Meltzer
Grand Central Publishing, 09/05/2006
 
A two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power ...more
Thrillers
The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion
by Edward O Wilson
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
Written in the form of letters to a Southern Baptist pastor Creation attempts to bridge the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
by Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/05/2006
 
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
The Guy Not Taken
by Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 09/05/2006
 
Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Uno's Garden
by Graeme Base
Gallup Press, 09/05/2006
 
Once again, beloved author Graeme Base introduces readers to a new world. And again, he interweaves the story with hidden images and mathematical ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Religion Gone Bad:: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right
by Mel White
Jeremy P Tarcher, 09/06/2006
 
This Fall's midterm elections will see much discussion about the enhanced power of the Christian fundamentalist Right, leaving many people to wonder: ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
by Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/06/2006
 
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Romance
Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
by Kristen Breitweiser
Gallup Press, 09/06/2006
 
The deeply personal, often shocking, and ultimately inspirational story of a woman whose world was shattered by terrorism - and who, with no husband ...more
Biography/Memoir
Devilish
by Maureen Johnson
Gallup Press, 09/07/2006
 
Jane's best friend Ally has sold her soul in exchange for popularity—to a devil masquerading as a sophomore at St. Teresa’s! Now it’s ...more
Literary Fiction
The Disunited States of America: Crosstime Traffic #4
by Harry Turtledove
Tor Books, 09/07/2006
 
Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at "now". What you can do is travel sideways, to the same "now" in another ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Gardens of the Dead
by William Brodrick
Viking, 09/07/2006
 
William Brodrick’s extraordinary new thriller, like its predecessor The Sixth Lamentation, focuses again on Father Anselm, a barrister turned ...more
Thrillers
The Harsh Cry of the Heron
by Lian Hearn
Gallup Press, 09/07/2006
 
The Last Tale of the Otori is a truly epic novel. It is the rich and satisfying conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series that both completes the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The One from the Other
by Philip Kerr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/07/2006
 
Germany, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
by Michael Zielenziger
Gallup Press, 09/09/2006
 
The world's second wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
by Eoin Colfer
Gallup Press, 09/12/2006
 
Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle. When the fairies realized they'd never win, they moved their civilization ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose
by Robin McGraw
Gallup Press, 09/12/2006
 
You've seen her on television with her husband, Dr. Phil. But now it's time for a heart-to-heart conversation with Robin McGraw. In Inside My Heart, ...more
Advice
Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
Modern Library, 09/12/2006
 
In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...more
Essays
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume One: The Pox Party
by M. T. Anderson
Candlewick Press, 09/12/2006
 
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Best American Poetry 2006
by edited by Billy Collins, David Lehman
Scribner, 09/12/2006
 
Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best ...more
Short Stories
The Mephisto Club
by Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books, 09/12/2006
 
Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli embark on a ...more
Thrillers
Water Street
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Gallup Press, 09/12/2006
 
Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in...more
Historical Fiction
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
Gallup Press, 09/12/2006
 
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fear of the Dark
by Walter Mosley
Little Brown & Company, 09/16/2006
 
Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli embark on a ...more
Thrillers
Variable Star
by Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
Gallup Press, 09/16/2006
 
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Paint It Black
by Janet Fitch
Little Brown & Company, 09/18/2006
 
Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA's 1980 punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A ...more
Literary Fiction
Brothers
by Da Chen
Gallup Press, 09/19/2006
 
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Creationists: Selected Essays: 1993-2006
by E.L. Doctorow
Random House, 09/19/2006
 
Doctorow's sixteen essays (adapted from reviews, book introductions and public lectures) explore the theme of literary and scientific creation, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Essays
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine
Gallup Press, 09/19/2006
 
The fairy Lucinda has once again given a dreadful gift. This time it's a mysterious magical mirror. The gift is disastrous when it falls into the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Faith and Politics: How the
by Senator John Danforth
Gallup Press, 09/19/2006
 
As a former three-term Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopal priest, John Danforth has watched the changes in his party and ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Forever Young:: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr
by William Sylvester Noonan, Robert Huber
Viking, 09/19/2006
 
Information not available
Biography/Memoir
Moral Disorder
by Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese, 09/19/2006
 
This book could be seen either as a collection of ten stories that is almost a novel or as a novel broken up into ten stories. It resembles a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
by Frank Rich
Gallup Press, 09/19/2006
 
New York Times columnist Frank Rich delivers a step-by-step chronicle of how skillfully the White House built its house of cards and how the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/19/2006
 
The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
The Mission Song
by John le Carre
Gallup Press, 09/19/2006
 
Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
The Right Attitude To Rain
by Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 09/19/2006
 
When Mimi, Isabel’s cousin from Dallas, arrives in Edinburgh with her husband, Joe, several confounding situations unfurl. First, Mimi and Joe ...more
Mysteries
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
by Lee Smolin
Houghton Mifflin, 09/19/2006
 
In this groundbreaking book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics—the search for the laws of nature—...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Things I Didn't Know
by Robert Hughes
Knopf, 09/19/2006
 
One of the extraordinary aspects of this book is that Hughes allows his observations of the world around him to be its focal point rather than the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
When Madeline Was Young
by Jane Hamilton
Gallup Press, 09/19/2006
 
When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year...more
Literary Fiction
The War of the World:: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
by Niall Ferguson
Gallup Press, 09/21/2006
 
A revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vicious Circle: A Novel of Complicity
by Robert Littell
Gallup Press, 09/21/2006
 
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of ...more
Thrillers
Culture Warrior
by Bill O'Reilly
Gallup Press, 09/25/2006
 
Bill O’Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior—and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blizzard of the Blue Moon: Magic Tree House #36
by Mary Pope Osborne
Random House, 09/26/2006
 
Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression.
Historical Fiction
Diana
by Sarah Bradford
Viking, 09/26/2006
 
Diana, Princess of Wales, is nothing less than an icon, remembered in death as vividly as she appeared in life. Yet throughout her brief life, Diana ...more
Biography/Memoir
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
Gallup Press, 09/26/2006
 
The story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend ...more
Literary Fiction
Fragile Things
by Neil Gaiman
Gallup Press, 09/26/2006
 
A collection that showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, ...more
Short Stories
Hedgie Blasts Off!
by Jan Brett
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/26/2006
 
More than anything Hedgie wants to be an astronaut and travel into space. He gets his chance the day the geyser, Big Sparkler, starts to sputter and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mommy?
by Maurice Sendak
Michael di Capua Books, 09/26/2006
 
They're all here! Everybody's favorite monsters are just going about their business when a plucky little boy wanders into their cuckoo house. And what...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Other Side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson
Gallup Press, 09/26/2006
 
A novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession set in the mid-1930s. Two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are ...more
Literary Fiction
Secrets of the Alchemist Dar
by Michael Stadther
Gallup Press, 09/26/2006
 
Secrets of the Alchemist Dar, the sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Treasure's Trove, is a fantasy story about Dark and Good Fairies, spells ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
by Daniel Goleman
Bantam Books, 09/26/2006
 
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Witchery
by James Reese
Gallup Press, 09/26/2006
 
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Herculine is summoned from self-imposed exile by her teacher, the witch Sebastiana d'Azur, and told ...more
Thrillers
Under Orders
by Dick Francis
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/26/2006
 
It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Last seen in 1995's Come to Grief, former champion ...more
Thrillers
Wintersmith: A Discworld Story for Younger Readers
by Terry Pratchett
HarperTeen, 09/26/2006
 
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge:...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
by Tina Cassidy
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/28/2006
 
From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents a lively, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
by Robert Santelli
Chronicle Books, 09/28/2006
 
Greetings from E Street celebrates the passionately loved group that has been entertaining the world for 35 years. Written with their cooperation, ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Translator
by Leila Aboulela
Grove Press, 09/28/2006
 
Sammar is a young Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator in a university department. Numb with grief after losing her husband, and estranged ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
by Charles Allen
Gallup Press, 09/30/2006
 
An important study of the little-known history of the Wahhabi, a fundamentalist Islamic tribe whose teachings influence today's extreme Islamic ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Christmas Letters
by Debbie Macomber
Mira, 10/01/2006
 
Katherine O'Connor often spends her days at a cozy cafe on Blossom Street in Seattle -- where she writes Christmas letters for other people. She's ...more
Romance
Farewell Summer
by Ray Bradbury
William Morrow, 10/01/2006
 
One of the most acclaimed and beloved of American storytellers, Ray Bradbury has come home, revisiting the verdant landscape of one of his most adored...more
Literary Fiction
Freedom: The Story of My Second Life
by Malika Oufkir
Miramax, 10/01/2006
 
Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir’s intensely moving account of her twenty years imprisoned in a desert jail in Morocco, was a surprise international ...more
Biography/Memoir
Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space
by Philip Reeve
Bloomsbury USA, 10/01/2006
 
Arthur (Art) Mumsby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in a huge and rambling house called Larklight…that just happens to be...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Ghost at the Table
by Suzanne Berne
Shannon Ravenel Books, 10/01/2006
 
Thanksgiving, homecoming, reunion - family ideals shared across generations and geography. But does reality ever live up to expectations? The Fiske ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Texicans
by Nina Vida
Soho Press, 10/01/2006
 
It's 1843, San Antonio, the Republic of Texas. Mexican-born Aurelia Ruiz finds that she may have the power to heal - as well as to curse. She ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
When Santa Fell To Earth
by Cornelia Funke
The Chicken House, 10/01/2006
 
Scared by a storm, Twinklestar, the least reliable reindeer, bolts--causing Santa and his sleigh to crash-land. And though Santa has dropped into a ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Black Girl, White Girl
by Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 10/02/2006
 
Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely ...more
Literary Fiction
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
by Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/02/2006
 
The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League...more
Biography/Memoir
50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America
by William D. Novell
St. Martin's Press, 10/03/2006
 
50+ is a call to arms. It’s a groundbreaking look at the revolution that’s going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby ...more
Advice
500 Great Books for Teens
by Anita Silvey
Houghton Mifflin, 10/03/2006
 
Thousands of books for teens are published every year, but until now no general reference has existed. Anita Silvey's book is the one everyone has ...more
Advice
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
by Thomas Keneally
Gallup Press, 10/03/2006
 
It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Ariel Sharon: A Life
by Nir Hefez & Gadi Bloom
Random House, 10/03/2006
 
Warrior, statesman, peacemaker – few world leaders have had as dramatic and pivotal a life story as Ariel Sharon. And as this riveting new ...more
Biography/Memoir
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
by Hampton Sides
Gallup Press, 10/03/2006
 
Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains...more
Historical Fiction
Emeril's There's a Chef in My World!: Recipes That Take You Places
by Emeril Lagasse
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/03/2006
 
You can start your travels in your own kitchen by exploring the meals, ingredients, and cooking styles enjoyed in different countries and regions. Hey...more
Advice
Finding Noel
by Richard Paul Evans
Simon & Schuster, 10/03/2006
 
I lost my mother on Valentine's Day of 2006. After weeks of struggling with my grief, I decided I would write a story for her. As she loved Christmas,...more
Romance
Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington
by Peter H. Stone
Gallup Press, 10/03/2006
 
The Indian-casino scandal has torn the veil off the Republican Party's conservative power base, revealing parts of the Washington lobbying community ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
by Eve Ensler
Villard, 10/03/2006
 
When her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Kidnapped: A Novel (Irene Kelly Mysteries)
by Jan Burke
Simon & Schuster, 10/03/2006
 
When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of ...more
Literary Fiction
Morning Spy, Evening Spy
by Colin MacKinnon
St. Martin's Press, 10/03/2006
 
An Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s, once on the CIA payroll, has come back to haunt the agency. Kareem has become an enemy, a killer working ...more
Thrillers
Motor Mouth
by Janet Evanovich
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/03/2006
 
A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and ...more
Literary Fiction
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice
by John Ashcroft
Center Street, 10/03/2006
 
John Ashcroft's service as attorney general began with turmoil: a loss to a deceased challenger in his senate reelection campaign and a tumultuous ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Train Later: A Memoir
by Andy Summers
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/03/2006
 
In this intimate, revealing work, Andy Summers writes fluidly about his first guitar, his experiences with earlier bands, his relationships and ...more
Biography/Memoir
Pretty Little Liars
by Sara Shepard
HarperTeen, 10/03/2006
 
Gossip thrives amid the Mercedes-Benzes, mega mansions, and perfectly manicured hedges in the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania. Behind their ...more
Literary Fiction
Restless
by William Boyd
Bloomsbury USA, 10/03/2006
 
It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. A stranger, Lucas Romer is a patrician ...more
Thrillers
Strange Candy
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Books, 10/03/2006
 
#1 New York Times bestselling author's Laurell K. Hamilton's first short story collection - including an all new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story.
Short Stories
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
by Ellen Erwin & Jessica Z. Diamond
Atria Books, 10/03/2006
 
The first-ever souvenir album from the Audrey Hepburn Estate is a unique keepsake collection of interviews, memories, unseen family photos, and ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Ice Dragon
by George R R Martin
Starscape, 10/03/2006
 
The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Dan Gediman (editor)
Gallup Press, 10/03/2006
 
An inspiring collection of the personal philosophies of a group of remarkable men and women, based on the National Public Radio series of the same ...more
Other
Peter Pan in Scarlet
by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Scott Fischer
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/05/2006
 
In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright to Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Seek Find: The Bible for All People
by American Bible Society
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/05/2006
 
The CEV was published by the American Bible Society in response to an urgent need for a translation that would reach those many millions who are not ...more
Other
War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back
by Lou Dobbs
Viking, 10/05/2006
 
The middle class has never been so vulnerable. Its every feature is under assault by politicians and the lobbyists who court them, big-business ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. Bush
by Doro Bush Koch
Grand Central Publishing, 10/06/2006
 
As president, he oversaw the end of the Cold War and helped liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's forces. As the U.S. Liaison to China, he held tenure...more
Biography/Memoir
The Light of Evening
by Edna O'Brien
Gallup Press, 10/06/2006
 
A story of attachments, the attachment to land and especially the attachment between mother and daughter, who yearn for closeness but are also ...more
Literary Fiction
The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy
by Sandy Weill & Judah S. Kraushaar
Business Plus, 10/09/2006
 
The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 in borrowed cash in 1960, and relying on uncanny entrepreneurial instincts in ...more
Biography/Memoir
Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones
by Suzanne Somers
Crown, 10/10/2006
 
Suzanne introduces an inspiring, medically validated approach to reversing the aging process and maintaining a healthy, vibrant, mentally sharp, ...more
Advice
Beguilement: Sharing Knife Volume One
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Gallup Press, 10/10/2006
 
Young Fawn Bluefield has fled her family's farm hoping to find work in the city of Glassforge. Uncertain about her future and the troubles she carries...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey
Knopf, 10/10/2006
 
Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd
by Sue Monk Kidd
GuidepostsBooks, 10/10/2006
 
In Firstlight, bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd offers readers an intimate glimpse into the early years of her journey as both writer and spiritual ...more
Advice
Gemini Summer
by Iain Lawrence
Gallup Press, 10/10/2006
 
In the quiet of Hog's Hollow, each member of the River family pursues a dream. Danny, the younger River boy, dreams of having a dog. Then in the ...more
Literary Fiction
Kabbalah: A Love Story
by Lawrence Kushner
Broadway Books, 10/10/2006
 
Hidden within the binding of an ancient text that has been passed down through the ages lies the answer to one of the heart's eternal questions. ...more
Literary Fiction
Noelle's Treasure Tale: A New Magically Mysterious Adventure
by Gloria Estefan & Michael Garland
Rayo, 10/10/2006
 
Noelle the Bulldog is back for another magically mysterious adventure! She's on a holiday visit with her family to the exotic Treasure Coast of ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Paula Deen Celebrates!: Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life
by Paula Deen, Martha Nesbit
Simon & Schuster, 10/10/2006
 
Beloved Food Network personality, restaurateur, and author Paula Deen loves a party, and in her latest book, Paula Deen Celebrates!, Paula shares with...more
Advice
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
by Karen DeYoung
Knopf, 10/10/2006
 
Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, &#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
White Masai: An Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure
by Corinne Hoffman
Gallup Press, 10/10/2006
 
Two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds - Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Not Easily Broken: A Novel
by T. D. Jakes
FaithWords, 10/11/2006
 
New York Times bestselling author T. D. Jakes pens a powerful tale of a couple's attempt to survive a car accident, a fractured marriage, and the ...more
Literary Fiction
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography
by Sharon Osbourne
Springboard Press, 10/11/2006
 
As the daughter of rock manager Don Arden, Sharon Osbourne's childhood was an unruly mix of glamour and violence. In her late 20s, Sharon broke with ...more
Biography/Memoir
The End: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13
by Lemony Snicket
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/13/2006
 
From the Book Jacket: This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't...more
Critics' Consensus:

Children's Books
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
by Amy Sedaris
Grand Central Publishing, 10/16/2006
 
Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering for the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Advice
Rescue Missions
by Frederick Busch
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/16/2006
 
The war in Iraq is present in some of these stories, and so are the domestic wars; and, in every case, a character seeks to comfort or to save someone...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel
by Julia C. Collins
Oxford University Press, 10/16/2006
 
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, ...more
Literary Fiction
Tough Choices
by Carly Fiorina
Portfolio, 10/16/2006
 
By accepting the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard, an iconic company, Carly Fiorina confirmed her status as the most powerful businesswoman in America. But ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
A Corpse in the Koryo: An Inspector O Novel, #1
by James Church
St. Martin's Press, 10/17/2006
 
Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea, one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
 Debut Author
Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery
by Alex Kuczynski
Doubleday, 10/17/2006
 
Americans are aging faster and getting fatter than any other population on the planet. At the same time, our popular notions of perfect beauty have ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
by Jessica Mitford, edited by Peter Y. Sussman
Knopf, 10/17/2006
 
"Decca" Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—...more
Biography/Memoir
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
by Henry Hitchings
Picador, 10/17/2006
 
Imagining he could complete the job in three years, Johnson in fact took more than eight, and the dictionary itself turned out to be as much a work of...more
Literary Fiction
Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
by Deepak Chopra
Harmony Books, 10/17/2006
 
Deepak Chopra has touched millions of readers by demystifying our deepest spiritual concerns while retaining their poetry and wonder. Now he turns to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Other
The Angels of Morgan Hill
by Donna Van Liere
St. Martin's Press, 10/17/2006
 
From the author of the beloved Christmas Hope series—comes a moving novel of faith, family, and destiny..... Jane Gable thinks 1947 will be like ...more
Literary Fiction
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
Crown, 10/17/2006
 
The Democrats' rising star wants U.S. politicians to start thinking big again.
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Bancroft Strategy
by Robert Ludlum
St. Martin's Press, 10/17/2006
 
When Todd Belknap—a legendary field agent for Consular Operations with a reputation as something of a cowboy— is cut loose from the agency ...more
Thrillers
The Collectors
by David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 10/17/2006
 
People are dropping dead in Washington, D.C. First the Speaker of the House falls victim to a hitman in a carefully orchestrated murder in front of ...more
Thrillers
The Hounds and the Fury
by Rita Mae Brown
Ballantine Books, 10/17/2006
 
Brown's fifth foxhunting mystery.
Mysteries
The Ladies of Grace Adieu: And Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury USA, 10/17/2006
 
Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics’ favorite Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
The Tailor's Daughter
by Janice Graham
St. Martin's Press, 10/17/2006
 
A tailor's daughter living on London's Savile Row, Veda Grenfell expects that one day she will marry up and shed her status as a tradesman's daughter....more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Uses of Enchantment
by Heidi Julavits
Doubleday, 10/17/2006
 
The Uses of Enchantment weaves a spell in which the reader sees how the extraordinary power of a young woman’s sexuality, and the desire to wield...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
What Came Before He Shot Her
by Elizabeth George
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/17/2006
 
The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is ...more
Mysteries
The Darwin Awards 4
by Wendy Northcutt
Dutton, 10/19/2006
 
With over 100 all-new award winners, this hilarious collection of terminal mishaps will amuse and amaze all who read it.
Other
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic - and How It Changed the Way We Think about Disease, Cities, Science, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson
Riverhead Books, 10/19/2006
 
Summer 1854. A devastating cholera outbreak seizes London just as it is emerging as a modern city: more than 2 million people packed into a ten-mile ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Violet Comes to Stay: Mitford Years
by Jan Karon & Melanie Cecka
Viking, 10/19/2006
 
Violet Comes to Stay is the first in a series of storybooks inspired by Cynthia Coppersmith, Father Tim’s wife from Jan Karon’s bestselling ...more
Literary Fiction
Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw
Gallup Press, 10/24/2006
 
Majestically told and based on materials not available to any previous biographer, the definitive life of Andrew Carnegie - one of American business's...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again
by Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter, 10/24/2006
 
Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten has catered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the...more
Advice
Eloise in Hollywood
by Kay Thompson & Hilary Knight
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/24/2006
 
Frank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to life’s endless complexities than ever before. His ...more
Literary Fiction
Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
by Georgeanne Brennan, illustrated by Dr Seuss
Random House, 10/24/2006
 
Ever wonder what green eggs and ham really taste like? They're yummy. And now everyone can whip up a batch for themselves using this fabulous cookbook...more
Other
Hundred-Dollar Baby: Spenser Mystery Series, #34
by Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/24/2006
 
Longtime Spenser fans will remember that once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle - a beautiful teenage runaway who...more
Thrillers
Lisey's Story
by Stephen King
Scribner, 10/24/2006
 
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy....more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by Antonia Fraser
Nan A. Talese, 10/24/2006
 
The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Miracle on 49th Street
by Mike Lupica
Philomel, 10/24/2006
 
Josh Cameron has it all: a World Championship ring with the Boston Celtics, an MVP award, a clean-cut image, and the adoration of millions. What he ...more
Literary Fiction
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
by Thomas Cahill
Nan A. Talese, 10/24/2006
 
After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
by Antoinette May
William Morrow, 10/24/2006
 
Pilate's Wife is an impressive marriage of research and imagination in which Antoinette May introduces Claudia, one of the Bible's most enigmatic ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Terrier: Beka Cooper #1
by Tamora Pierce
Random House, 10/24/2006
 
Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, an amazing young woman who lived 200 years before Pierce's popular Alanna ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The English Roses, Too Good to be True
by Madonna, illustrated by Jeffrey Fulvimari
Callaway, 10/24/2006
 
With a whirling dervish of a teacher and a sprinkle of magic fairy dust, the English Roses learn valuable lessons about friendship and surviving their...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Series, and More. Much More.
by Jan Karon & Brenda Furman
Viking, 10/24/2006
 
Jan Karon’s Mitford Years series is a publishing phenomenon that, since 1996, has sold more than twenty-five million books and attracted millions...more
Literary Fiction
God's War: A New History of the Crusades
by Christopher Tyerman
Belknap Press, 10/27/2006
 
From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God.

God's War ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dear John
by Nicholas Sparks
Gallup Press, 10/30/2006
 
An extraordinary, moving story, Dear John explores the complexities of love -- how it survives time and heartbreak, and how it transforms us forever.more
Romance
Probuditi!
by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 10/30/2006
 
For his birthday, Calvin's mother gives him two tickets to see Lomax the Magnificent (magician and hypnotist extraordinaire!). Even though Mama hints ...more
Literary Fiction
Ruler of the Realm: Faerie Wars Chronicles
by Herbie Brennan
Bloomsbury USA, 10/30/2006
 
It is Henry's third visit to the Faerie Realm, but this time in a rather different guise and to a rather different kind of place. Holly Blue is Queen ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
by Courtney Love
Gallup Press, 10/31/2006
 
Simultaneously candid and enigmatic, Love has a mordant wit and vivid intelligence matched in intensity only by the extraordinary life she has led, ...more
Biography/Memoir
French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure
by Mireille Guiliano
Knopf, 10/31/2006
 
Fench women not only stay slim while relishing life to the fullest, they also have the longest life expectancy in the Western world. And now Mireille ...more
Advice
Keeper of the Keys
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Gallup Press, 10/31/2006
 
For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the nightmare begins one sultry California night when his wife disappears. No phone call, no ransom ...more
Thrillers
On Truth
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Knopf, 10/31/2006
 
Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won...more
Advice
Provence A-Z
by Peter Mayle
Knopf, 10/31/2006
 
An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.
Advice
Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People
by Richard Carlson
HarperSanFrancisco, 10/31/2006
 
A jewel of a handbook on how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who haunt your holidays. Whether it's the salesclerk who ignores you in...more
Advice
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power
by James Traub
Gallup Press, 10/31/2006
 
Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Kofi Annan and the UN from 1992 to the present. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
Knopf, 10/31/2006
 
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Threat: Dan Lenson Series
by David Poyer
St. Martin's Press, 10/31/2006
 
Lenson reports to the West Wing to direct a multiservice team working to interdict the flow of drugs from Latin America. Never one to just warm a ...more
Thrillers
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Shirley Jackson
Penguin Classics, 10/31/2006
 
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated...more
Literary Fiction
You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled: A Puzzle Lady Mystery
by Parnell Hall
Gallup Press, 10/31/2006
 
When Benny Southstreet, a small-time hustler with a big-time gift for constructing crosswords, accuses Cora of stealing one of his creations, it’...more
Mysteries
You On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Free Press, 10/31/2006
 
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our ...more
Advice
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Harvard University Press, 11/01/2006
 
Much has been written about the efforts of the Royal Navy in shuttling soldiers (of the British Expeditionary Force and French Army) to safety (at ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
by Richard Tedlow & Andy Grove
Gallup Press, 11/02/2006
 
Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel during its years of explosive growth, is on the shortlist of America’s most admired businesspeople, along with Steve...more
Biography/Memoir
What Paul Meant
by Garry Wills
Gallup Press, 11/02/2006
 
A stellar interpretation of Paul’s writing, examining his tremendous influence on the first explosion of Christian belief and chronicling the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Other
The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama
by Thomas Laird
Grove Press, 11/06/2006
 
A work of monumental importance and a crucial addition to our understanding of a country with one of the world's richest backgrounds. Over the course ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
Grand Central Publishing, 11/06/2006
 
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club - a men's club set in an Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
A Christmas Secret
by Anne Perry
Gallup Press, 11/07/2006
 
Dominic Corde is thrilled to “fill the robe” as substitute vicar in the village of Cottisham, while the Reverend Wynter is away on a three-...more
Literary Fiction
Born in Death
by J. D. Robb
Gallup Press, 11/07/2006
 
Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm - are brutally killed ...more
Mysteries
Inés of My Soul: A Novel
by Isabel Allende
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/07/2006
 
Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is...more
Literary Fiction
Point to Point Navigation
by Gore Vidal
Gallup Press, 11/07/2006
 
The celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
Atria Books, 11/07/2006
 
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark...more
Literary Fiction
The Doors
by The Doors, Henry Rollins, Ben Fong-Torres, Perry Farrell
Hyperion, 11/07/2006
 
An essential companion for fans of the Doors: a comprehensive collection of their lyrics, including live material and the posthumously issued poetry ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Godfather's Revenge
by Mark Winegardner
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/07/2006
 
The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family-one of the most enduring lineages in American literature...more
Literary Fiction
The Gods of Newport
by John Jakes
Gallup Press, 11/07/2006
 
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of undeclared class warfare where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind ...more
Historical Fiction
The Handmaid and the Carpenter
by Elizabeth Berg
Gallup Press, 11/07/2006
 
We see Mary – young, strong, and inquisitive – as she first meets Joseph, a serious-minded young carpenter who is steadfastly devoted to the...more
Historical Fiction
The House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege
by Jerry Oppenheimer
Crown, 11/07/2006
 
This intimate, shocking--and thoroughly unauthorized--portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Phony Marine
by Jim Lehrer
Gallup Press, 11/07/2006
 
Late one night, Hugo (an unremarkable, middle-aged salesman) stumbles upon an online auction for a Silver Star, the medal awarded for bravery in ...more
Literary Fiction
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog
by Dave Barry
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/07/2006
 
The year is 1960, and, as it is every year, the Christmas pageant at St. John's Episcopal Church, directed by Mrs. Elkins, who used to be in The ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Cross
by James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 11/13/2006
 
From the man USA Today has called the "master of the genre," Cross is the high-velocity thriller James Patterson and Alex Cross's fans have waited ...more
Thrillers
Critique of Criminal Reason: A Mystery
by Michael Gregorio
St. Martin's Press, 11/14/2006
 
It has been years since Immanuel Kant's landmark philosophical work, Critique of Pure Reason, brought him fame throughout Europe and made him Kö...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives
by John Edwards
Collins, 11/14/2006
 
Most of us can trace the shape of our lives back to a physical place - a childhood home that played an enormous role in defining how we see ourselves ...more
Essays
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
by David Crystal
Gallup Press, 11/14/2006
 
A parrot uncomprehendingly rattles off a string of words learned by rote. And we marvel! Yet we seem to take our own astonishing linguistic powers for...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Jamie's Italy
by Jamie Oliver
Hyperion, 11/14/2006
 
Italy and its wonderful flavors have always had a major influence on Jamie Oliver’s food and cooking. In Jamie’s Italy, he travels this ...more
Advice
Leonard Woolf: A Biography
by Victoria Glendinning
Gallup Press, 11/14/2006
 
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Limitations
by Scott Turow
Gallup Press, 11/14/2006
 
Paperback original. The master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest questions of ...more
Thrillers
Nature Girl
by Carl Hiaasen
Knopf, 11/14/2006
 
Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes"—has a scheme to help rid the world of ...more
Literary Fiction
Red Chrysanthemum: Sano Ichiro Mysteries
by Laura Joh Rowland
Gallup Press, 11/14/2006
 
Sano Ichiro, chamberlain to the Emperor, is faced with his greatest crisis yet his pregnant wife is found terrified and naked next to the dead body of...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Santa Cruise:: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
by Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Scribner, 11/14/2006
 
Filled with suspense and humor, Santa Cruise is a holiday mystery you won't want to miss. Join the Clarks as they bring this unpredictable voyage to a...more
Literary Fiction
Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy
by David Crane
Gallup Press, 11/14/2006
 
A richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott, and the first to transcend the myths that have taken root in the story of his life.
Biography/Memoir
The Green Trap
by Ben Bova
Forge Books, 11/14/2006
 
Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it…and why. Accompanied by a beautiful ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Long Night of Winchell Dear
by Robert James Waller
Shaye Areheart Books, 11/14/2006
 
The Long Night of Winchell Dear finds master storyteller Robert James Waller at his best as he takes us through the wind and dust of the high desert ...more
Romance
Bleeding Hearts
by Ian Rankin
Gallup Press, 11/15/2006
 
Michael Weston is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. When you're a professional assassin, total secrecy is part of the job. But after a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson
Houghton Mifflin, 11/15/2006
 
Dale Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have ...more
Biography/Memoir
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
by John Mortimer
Gallup Press, 11/16/2006
 
Mortimer returns with another Rumpole novel to tackle a truly relevant topic with his signature wit and style. While defending a mind-numbingly dull ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Against The Day
by Thomas Pynchon
Gallup Press, 11/21/2006
 
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Capital Crimes
by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman
Gallup Press, 11/21/2006
 
Husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes, a gripping pair of original crime thrillers set...more
Short Stories
John's Story: The Last Eyewitness: Jesus Chronicles Series #1
by Tim F. LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Gallup Press, 11/21/2006
 
At ninety years old, John is the last of the original twelve apostles still alive, the only one who was not martyred. Committed to spreading the Good ...more
Historical Fiction
The Shape Shifter: Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Series, #18
by Tony Hillerman
Gallup Press, 11/21/2006
 
Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
Soarer's Choice: The Sixth Book of the Corean Chronicles
by L. E. Modesitt
Gallup Press, 11/24/2006
 
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to the world of Corus and concludes the trilogy of the intertwined stories of Dainyl, the Alector, and Mykel, the native ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Brother Odd
by Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 11/28/2006
 
"Loop me in, odd one." The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite ...more
Thrillers
Empire
by Orson Scott Card
Tor Books, 11/28/2006
 
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hollywood Station
by Joseph Wambaugh
Gallup Press, 11/28/2006
 
They call their sergeant the Oracle. He's a seasoned LAPD veteran who keeps a close watch over his squad from his understaffed office at Hollywood ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
Next
by Michael Crichton
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/28/2006
 
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future--it's the world right now.

We live in a time ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
by Meg Cabot
Gallup Press, 11/28/2006
 
Student Heather Wells finds herself on a new case when the head of a college cheerleader turns up in a cafeteria cooking pot.
Mysteries
The Boss
by Stan Pottinger
St. Martin's Press, 11/28/2006
 
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Thrillers
Treasure of Khan
by Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/28/2006
 
From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot sands of the Gobi Desert, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino find intrigue, adventure, and peril while collecting ...more
Thrillers
Trouble Magnet: A Pip & Flinx Adventure
by Alan Dean Foster
Del Rey, 11/28/2006
 
From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing new Pip & Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game-And How it Got that Way
by Philip E. Orbanes
Gallup Press, 11/30/2006
 
Philip Orbanes, the leading expert on all things Monopoliana, tells the remarkable history of the game, from its predecessor's birth as a teaching ...more
Other
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness: Meditations
by Alice Walker
New Press, 11/30/2006
 
A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who ...more
Advice
Valentine Princess: A Princess Diaries Book
by Meg Cabot
HarperTeen, 12/01/2006
 
When you're Princess Mia, nothing happens the way it's supposed to. For one thing, Grandmère seems determined to prove that boy (or Michael, as ...more
Literary Fiction
Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work
by Martin Geck
Harcourt, 12/04/2006
 
The focus in this comprehensive, thoroughly researched book is on the extraordinary work that came of the composer's life. From the Goldberg ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
Delacorte Press, 12/05/2006
 
He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.
Thrillers
Mistral's Kiss: A Meredith Gentry Novel
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Ballantine Books, 12/12/2006
 
The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie - where her efforts ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
by George Weller
Gallup Press, 12/26/2006
 
George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September ...more
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel
by Walter Mosley
Gallup Press, 12/26/2006
 
This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest portrayal of a man on a quest for sexual redemption in midlife.
Literary Fiction
Maelstrom: Book Two of the Twins of Petaybee
by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Gallup Press, 12/26/2006
 
In Changelings, bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough returned to the sentient planet Petaybee with a story of growth and ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
More Twisted: The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver, Volume II
by Jeffery Deaver
Gallup Press, 12/26/2006
 
Deaver is back with sixteen stories in the tradition of O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe. His subjects range from a Westchester commuter to a brilliant ...more
Short Stories
Shadow Dance
by Julie Garwood
Ballantine Books, 12/26/2006
 
A powerful thug who rules by fear, a man who harbors a simmering secret, and an unexpected romance that pierces all defenses – beloved author ...more
Romance
Stalemate: Eve Duncan Forensics Thrillers
by Iris Johansen
Bantam Books, 12/26/2006
 
One of the world’s most wanted men, little is really known about Luis Montalvo except that he is extraordinarily dangerous and that he never ...more
Thrillers
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
by Julia Navarro, Andrew Hurley (translator)
Gallup Press, 12/26/2006
 
Following a trail that stretches from the humble meeting places of the earliest Christian communities to the highest councils of the Vatican and the ...more
Thrillers
The Stone Light: The Dark Reflections Series
by Kai Meyer
Gallup Press, 12/26/2006
 
Merle -- carrying the mysterious Flowing Queen within her -- and Vermithrax, the winged stone lion, are flying into Hell. They are looking for help in...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trap Door: Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries
by Sarah Graves
Bantam Books, 12/26/2006
 
When Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree left behind her high-powered, high-risk career on Wall Street for the charming town of Eastport, Maine, she expected a ...more
Mysteries
Find Me: Kathleen Mallory Series
by Carol O'Connell
Gallup Press, 12/28/2006
 
A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66, a road of many names. And ...more
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Thrillers
Paula Spencer
by Roddy Doyle
Gallup Press, 12/28/2006
 
When Roddy Doyle published The Woman Who Walked into Doors in 1996, critics and readers alike hailed it as a tour de force of literary ventriloquism ...more
Literary Fiction
Is it Hot in Here? Or Is it Me?: The Complete Guide to Menopause
by Barbara Kantrowitz, Pat Wingert Kelly
Gallup Press, 12/30/2006
 
For significant milestones, significant books: first, Our Bodies, Ourselves, then What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and now, Is it Hot in ...more
Advice
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