All The King's Men
by
Robert Penn Warren
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/01/2005
Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its...
more
Historical Fiction
Brief Happiness: The Correspondence of Theo Van Gogh and Jo Bonger (Cahier Vincent, No. 7.)
by
Theo Van Gogh
W Books, 01/01/2005
After some initial hesitation on Jo's part, they became a couple in December 1888, and were separated by Theo's mental breakdown in early October 1890...
more
Biography/Memoir
Inside Job
by
Connie Willis
Subterranean Press, 01/01/2005
Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Gemma Bovery
by
Posy Simmonds
Pantheon Books, 02/01/2005
Gemma is the pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children, and the bête noire of his ex-wife. A sudden windfall...
more
Graphic Novels
The Lost Mother: A Novel
by
Mary McGarry Morris
Viking, 02/17/2005
Since the publication of her astonishing debut,
Vanished, Mary McGarry Morris has been compared with John Steinbeck and Carson McCullers and widely ...
more
Literary Fiction
Rosa: A Novel
by
Jonathan Rabb
Crown, 02/22/2005
A murdered revolutionary . . .
A vicious serial killer . . .
A city in chaos . . .
All lead to Rosa.
In the last days of the First World War, socialist...
more
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by
Azadeh Moaveni
Perseus Publishing, 03/01/2005
A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have ...
more
Looking For Alaska
by
John Green
Dutton, 03/03/2005
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet ...
more
Literary Fiction
Chore Whore
by
Heather Howard
HarperEntertainment, 03/28/2005
Information not available.
Europe Central
by
William Vollman
Viking, 03/28/2005
A series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures—some famous, some infamous, some ...
more
Hard Truth
by
Nevada Barr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/28/2005
Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger ...
more
Junior: A Novel
by
Macaulay Culkin
Miramax, 03/28/2005
A novel by the now 23 year old 'child actor' - part memoir, part rant, part comedic tour-de-force.
Long Spoon Lane
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 03/28/2005
In the newest novel featuring Victorian-era sleuth Thomas Pitt, London is a city besieged by anarchists. After a violent gun battle between rioters ...
more
Nothing's Sacred
by
Lewis Black
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 03/28/2005
Lewis Black (The Daily Show) translates his volcanic eruptions into book form in
Nothing's Sacred, a collection of rants against stupidity and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Literary Fiction
The Serpent on the Crown
by
Elizabeth Peters
William Morrow, 03/28/2005
The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 where a widow's strange story -- and even stranger request -- is about to plunge them ...
more
Mysteries
The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by
Jennifer Chiaverini
Simon & Schuster, 03/28/2005
A dutiful daughter and niece, Dorothea Granger finds her dreams of furthering her education thwarted by the needs of home. A gifted quilter, she ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Third Translation
by
Matt Bondurant
Hyperion, 03/28/2005
Walter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by the British Museum with the task of unlocking the ancient riddle of the ...
more
The Harmony Silk Factory
by
Tash Aw
Riverhead Books, 03/31/2005
Conrad, Maugham, and Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that ...
more
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Knopf, 04/01/2005
American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic ...
more
Assassination Vacation
by
Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2005
Vowell visits assassination sites throughout the country to consider how political violence gets manipulated.
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World
by
James J Cramer
Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2005
Former hedge-fund manager and longtime Wall Street commentator Jim Cramer explains how to invest wisely in chaotic times.
Advice
Magical Mystery Tours: My Life with the Beatles
by
Tony Bramwell with Rosemary Kingsland
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/01/2005
No information available.
Biography/Memoir
Paula Deen and Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style
by
Paula Deen with Martha Nesbit
Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2005
Author, restaurateur, and Food Network star - turns to her friends to share their stories, ideas for entertaining Southern style, and, most important,...
more
Advice
Spin
by
Robert Charles Wilson
Tor Books, 04/01/2005
He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
The effect is ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Stalin: A Biography
by
Robert Service
Belknap Press, 04/01/2005
Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert ...
more
The Princess Diaries: Volume VI: Princess in Training
by
Meg Cabot
HarperTeen, 04/01/2005
Student body president, that is—nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, but ...
more
Literary Fiction
Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man: Speaking My Mind on Race, Celebrity, Sports and American Life
by
Charles Barkley
Penguin, 04/01/2005
Charles Barkley (author of
I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It) is a studio analyst for TNT's Inside the NBA¸ a regular contributor to CNN's TalkBack ...
more
Other
A Stroke of Midnight: A Meredith Gentry Novel
by
Laurel Hamilton
Ballantine Books, 04/04/2005
4th in the series: Everyone's favorite private investigator - and sexy faerie princess - is back home in the treacherous Unseelie Court, trying to ...
more
Romance
Alibi
by
Joe Kanon
Henry Holt and Company, 04/04/2005
A murder mystery, a love story, and a superbly crafted novel about the nature of moral responsibility set in post WWII Europe.
Advice
Cut and Run
by
Ridley Pearson
Hyperion, 04/04/2005
A U.S. federal marshal is pitted against the mob's most resourceful killer -- in a race to save the woman he loves.
Daddy's Girl
by
Garrison Keillor
Hyperion, 04/04/2005
See my baby walking down the street
Walks so lightly on her baby feet
Walks like a sailor rolling side to side
Smile on her face about a mile wide.
more
Literary Fiction
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
by
Ruth Reichl
Penguin, 04/04/2005
Third volume of Ruth Reichl's memoirs recounts her "adventures in deception," as she goes undercover in the world's finest restaurants. Reichl knows ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Lighthousekeeping
by
Jeanette Winterson
Harcourt, 04/04/2005
My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate.
Orphaned and anchorless, Silver is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the ...
more
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
by
James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 04/04/2005
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "Flock"--Fang, Iggy,...
more
Thrillers
My Life So Far
by
Jane Fonda
Random House, 04/04/2005
Actress, activist, feminist, wife and workout guru talks about her life to date. No reviews available.
Biography/Memoir
No Mountain High Enough: Raising Lance, Raising Me
by
Linda Armstrong Kelly
Broadway Books, 04/04/2005
Lance Armstrong has dazzled the world with his six straight Tour de France championships, his winning personality, and his poignant victory over life-...
more
Biography/Memoir
No Place Like Home
by
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, 04/04/2005
A young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever -- her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza ...
more
One Soldier's Story
by
Bob Dole
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/04/2005
Bob Dole looks back on his WWII experiences and the injuries that nearly cost him his life.
Biography/Memoir
Pretty Woman
by
Fern Michaels
Wheeler Publishing, 04/04/2005
This pretty woman is making a fresh start, and no one's greed or bitterness -- or even her own occasional self-doubts -- will stop her from jumping ...
more
Romance
Slim and Sexy Forever: The Hormone Solution for Permanent Weight Loss and Optimal Living
by
Suzanne Somers
Crown, 04/04/2005
Somers outlines a program specifically designed to address the needs of women and men who want to lose weight and replace the lust for life that ...
more
Advice
Sudden Rain
by
Maritta Wolff
Scribner, 04/04/2005
Information not available.
The 6-Day Body Makeover: Drop One Whole Size in Six Day by Eating More!
by
Michael Thurman
Grand Central Publishing, 04/04/2005
Lightning fast weight loss is now a reality .... With customized meal plans, menus and recipes, fat burning exercise secrets, a maintenance plan, and ...
more
Advice
The Alpine Quilt: An Emma Lord Mystery
by
Mary Daheim
Ballantine Books, 04/04/2005
Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who ...
more
The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women
by
Sue Shellenbargar
Henry Holt and Company, 04/04/2005
The writer of the Work & Family column in the Wall Street Journal shows how various options women use to cope with the turmoil of midlife--from ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons
by
Dugald Steer
Candlewick Press, 04/04/2005
First, Dr. Ernest Drake's
Dragonology (2003) was discovered and published to great acclaim. And now, a student's course in dragonology, written by Dr....
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True Believer
by
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 04/04/2005
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural. A born skeptic, he ...
more
Romance
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
by
Matthew Woodring Stover
Del Rey, 04/10/2005
After years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate ...
more
Literary Fiction
Tokyo Cancelled
by
Rana Dasgupta
Black Cat, 04/10/2005
To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Hundred and One Days
by
Asne Seierstad
Basic Books, 04/13/2005
A portrait of Baghdad under siege based on Seierstad's 101 days in the city, by the author of
The Bookseller of Kabul.
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
by
Pam Peeke
Rodale Books, 04/13/2005
Emphasizes weight training, and suggests a relatively limited number of food choices, also recommends using various tools such as journals, checklists...
more
Advice
Company Man
by
Joseph Finder
St. Martin's Press, 04/13/2005
The exciting new thriller from the international bestselling author Peoplemagazine hailed as 'a new John Grisham' W ith his breakout novel Paranoia, ...
more
Embroideries
by
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon Books, 04/13/2005
From the best-selling author of
Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries ...
more
Monster
by
Frank Peretti
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/13/2005
Reed Shelton organized this survival weekend. Hired the best guide in the region. Meticulously trained, studied, and packed while enouraging his wife,...
more
Oh My Stars
by
Lorna Landvik
Ballantine Books, 04/13/2005
A tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery–as Violet, who’s always considered herself a minor character in her own ...
more
Literary Fiction
Searching for the Sound: My Life in the Grateful Dead
by
Phil Lesh
Little Brown & Company, 04/13/2005
The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead.
Biography/Memoir
Two-Dollar Bill: A Stone Barrington
by
Stuart Woods
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/13/2005
Stone Barrington is caught between a clever con man - who's just become his client - and a beautiful prosecutor.
Watch Your Back: A Dortmunder Novel
by
Donald Westlake
Mysterious Press, 04/13/2005
Hapless criminal John Dortmunder returns in another rollicking tale of disorganized crime from Grand Master of Mystery Donald E. Westlake. It's the ...
more
Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
by
Yaroslav Trofimov
Henry Holt and Company, 04/14/2005
In the aftermath of 9/11, Yaroslav Trofimov spent three years crisscrossing the Islamic world to create this unprecedented report. A speaker of Arabic...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Being Perfect
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 04/20/2005
Quindlen shares wisdom that, perhaps without knowing it, you have longed to hear: about 'the perfection trap,' the price you pay when you become ...
more
Advice
Dead Run
by
P.J. Tracy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/20/2005
Monkeewrench founders Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky, along with Deputy Sharon Mueller, are driving from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where...
more
Thrillers
Guys Write for Guys Read
by
Jon Scieszka
Viking, 04/20/2005
What is a typical guy moment, anyhow? Selected by voters at the Guys Read Web site and compiled by Jon Scieszka, this wide-ranging collection of ...
more
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?
by
Michael Eric Dyson
Basic Books, 04/20/2005
The acclaimed "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve of class and generational warfare in black America with this provocative defense of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mother of Sorrows
by
Richard McCann
Vintage, 04/20/2005
With the breadth and cumulative force of a novel,
Mother of Sorrows presents ten interwoven stories of an American family starting out in the post ...
more
Literary Fiction
Puttin' On The Grits: A Guide to Southern Entertaining
by
Deborah Ford
Dutton, 04/20/2005
Covers all the details of hosting festivities large and small.
Advice
The Portrait
by
Iain Pears
Riverhead Books, 04/20/2005
A perfectly rendered short novel of suspense about a painter driven to extremes.
Voices from Chernobyl
by
Svetlana Alexievich
Daleky Archive Press, 04/30/2005
Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
by
Brooke Shields
Hyperion, 05/01/2005
Brooke Shields talks candidly about her experience with postpartum
depression after the birth of her daughter, and provides millions of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Advice
Elvis by the Presleys
by
Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley
Crown, 05/01/2005
For the first time, the inside story of legendary entertainer Elvis
Presley’s life as a husband, father, son, cousin, friend, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud
by
Goldie Hawn
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/01/2005
Goldie Hawn's life is an ongoing tableau of stories, and she has a
born knack for telling them. In this candid and insightful book,
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Haunted
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 05/01/2005
Appallingly entertaining,
Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his
finest—which means his most extreme and his most provocative.
more
Hunter Killer
by
Patrick Robinson
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/01/2005
Saudi Arabia, the world's leading producer of oil, is on the brink
of revolution. Inside the opulent palaces and lavish mansions, the
...
more
Thrillers
Let George Do It!
by
George Foreman
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/01/2005
George has four brothers: George, George, George, and George. It's
their father Big George's birthday, and everyone wants to help. Even ...
more
Literary Fiction
Life's Journeys According To Mr. Rogers: Things to Remember Along The Way
by
edited by Joanne Rogers
Hyperion, 05/01/2005
Fred Rogers has been an enduring presence in American homes for over
30 years as the beloved host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and ...
more
Advice
Meet Wild Boars
by
Meg Rosoff
Henry Holt and Company, 05/01/2005
Meet Wild Boars! Or maybe you better not. After all, they are dirty
and smelly, bad-tempered and rude. They might try to fool you, but
...
more
Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home
by
Mario Batali
Ecco, 05/01/2005
More than 300 easy-to-understand, easy-to-read recipes from master
chef and Food Network star Mario Batali.
Other
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition
by
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Touchstone, 05/01/2005
A revised, expanded edition of the 1970's classic.
Other
Literary Fiction
Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks and the Sea
by
Peter Benchley
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 05/01/2005
In this riveting true adventure and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller Peter Benchley draws on more than four decades of diving ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic
by
Avi
Hyperion, 05/01/2005
In the ancient Northumbrian town of Fulwich, there is an old man
whom nobody knows. This man, Thorston by name, has lived a secret
...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Instant Cook
by
Donna Hay
4th Estate, 05/01/2005
Donna Hay pulls together flavor combinations and cooking skills from the Mediterranean and the Pacific Rim - two of the most luscious and
...
more
The Italian Secretary
by
Caleb Carr
Carroll & Graf, 05/01/2005
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen
Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes' brother, Mycroft, a
...
more
Mysteries
The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See
by
Naomi Wolf
Simon & Schuster, 05/01/2005
For the first time, the inside story of legendary entertainer Elvis
Presley’s life as a husband, father, son, cousin, friend, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
You: The Owner's Manual
by
Michael Roizen
Collins, 05/01/2005
Powerhouse doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen describe each
integral part of the body (including organs, bones, and immune
...
more
Advice
Thrillers
The Story of the Night: A Novel
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 05/03/2005
In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his...
more
Literary Fiction
Out of Range: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C J Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/05/2005
Game warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of
greed, power, and murder. Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy--all ...
more
Thrillers
Them: A Memoir of Parents
by
Francine du Plessix Gray
Penguin, 05/05/2005
At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted ...
more
Arthur and the Minimoys
by
Luc Besson
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/08/2005
Deep underground, the Minimoys are waiting . . . for a champion.
Arthur's grandfather disappeared four years ago. All he left behind are his ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Behind The Lines
by
Andrew Carroll
Scribner, 05/08/2005
Andrew Carroll traveled to 35 countries to collect personal letters
for this book. Like Carroll's
War Letters,
Behind the
...more
Essays
Broken Prey
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/08/2005
The "Big Three" are a trio of inmates locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital over the years, each a particularly vicious serial killer, each ...
more
Literary Fiction
Genevieve
by
Eric Jerome Dickey
Dutton, 05/08/2005
In a story packed with revelations at every turn, Eric Jerome Dickey
takes us on a journey filled with deception, careening down a
...
more
Romance
Judy Moody Declares Independence
by
Megan McDonald
Candlewick Press, 05/08/2005
Hear ye! Hear ye! Everyone knows that Judy Moody has a mood for
every occasion, and now a visit to Boston has put our famous third
...
more
Literary Fiction
Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make With Money
by
Lois Frankel
Business Plus, 05/08/2005
Do you have outstanding balances on your credit cards? Are you afraid to change jobs? Will you retire with nothing? If you
answered yes...
more
Advice
Rough Weather Ahead for Walter The Farting Dog
by
William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray
Dutton Children's Books, 05/08/2005
Professor Kompressor visits Walter's family, offering a remedy for
the dog's digestive disorder: special food that must be mixed in his ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
by
Neil McKenna
Basic Books, 05/08/2005
Drawing on long-lost or overlooked material, this is a major new
biography of Wilde's emotional and sexual life.
Transgressions
by
edited by Ed McBain
Forge Books, 05/08/2005
10 novellas (each between 10-40,000 words) combine into a whopping 780 page book. Contributions from Donald E. Westlake, Anne Perry,
...
more
Short Stories
Boy Meets Boy
by
David Levithan
Knopf, 05/10/2005
When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he's found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 against him ...
more
Romance
Countdown
by
Iris Johansen
Bantam Books, 05/10/2005
'Don’t kill her. She’s no good to us dead.' These words haunt Jane
MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in an ...
more
Thrillers
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
by
Michael Lewis.
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/16/2005
Lewis (
Liar's Poker,
The New New Thing, etc) pens an
ode to his irascible and often terrifying baseball coach, Coach Fitz
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cracking The Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth
by
Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen
Harmony Books, 05/22/2005
Why do some people struggle financially while others seem destined
for more prosperous lives? What if you could enjoy a more abundant
...
more
Advice
Marker
by
Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/22/2005
Cook's 25th medical thriller. New York City medical examiners Dr.
Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton are back, in Robin Cook's
...
more
Thrillers
Rage
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 05/22/2005
Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they
kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless
...
more
Thrillers
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers: More Mad, Marvy Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by
Louise Rennison
HarperTeen, 05/22/2005
Let the overseas snogfest begin!
Georgia and Jas are off to Hamburger-a-gogo land! Georgia plans to track down Masimo, the Italian-American ...
more
Velocity
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 05/22/2005
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his
usual ...
more
Canaan's Tongue
by
John Wray
Knopf, 05/24/2005
An explosive allegorical novel set on the eve of the Civil War, about a gang of men hunted by both the Union and the Confederacy for dealing in stolen...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Act of War: A Novel
by
Dale Brown
William Morrow, 05/29/2005
Dale Brown goes beyond anything he's done
before, taking readers deep into the new world of
intelligence-focused warfare, ...
more
Thrillers
Devil's Corner
by
Lisa Scottoline
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/29/2005
When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the
...
more
Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive!
by
David Baldacci
Little Brown & Company, 05/30/2005
It all begins when Freddy Funkhauser, an off-beat nine-year-old with a knack for science, embarks on an ambitious plan to win new
...
more
Literary Fiction
Notebook for Fantastical Observations: Spiderwick Chronicles
by
Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/30/2005
This handy interactive storybook features 17 mini-adventures collected from faerie watchers around the globe as well as plenty of
pages ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Literary Fiction
Angelhead:My Brother's Descent into Madness
by
Greg Bottoms
University Of Chicago Press, 06/01/2005
Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Broken Verses
by
Kamila Shamsie
Harvest Books, 06/01/2005
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by...
more
The Blue Bistro
by
Elin Hilderbrand
St. Martin's Press, 06/01/2005
Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat ...
more
Romance
The Washingtonienne
by
Jessica Cutler
Hyperion, 06/01/2005
Deliciously gossipy and impossible to put down,
The
Washingtonienne is every bit as outrageously scandalous as the
real-...
more
Literary Fiction
The Wonder Spot
by
Melissa Bank
Viking, 06/01/2005
Bank (author of
The Girl's Guide to Hunting & Fishing) is back with her signature combination of devilishly self-deprecating humor, seriousness and ...
more
Literary Fiction
25 Ways to Win With People: How to Make Others Feel like a Million Bucks
by
John Maxwell and Les Parrot
Thomas Dunne Books, 06/06/2005
A companion to John Maxwell's bestselling
Winning with People.
Advice
Appaloosa
by
Robert B Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/06/2005
Western, set in the 1800s. When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of
...
more
Lie by Moonlight
by
Amanda Quick
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/06/2005
A novel of thrilling historical romantic suspense, set in late
Victorian England.
Romance
Lotsa de Casha
by
Madonna
Callaway, 06/06/2005
Lotsa de Casha is the richest - and most miserable - man in the world. No matter how colossal his castles, how fast his horses, nor
how ...
more
Literary Fiction
Mr Muo's Traveling Couch
by
Dai Sijie
Knopf, 06/06/2005
Following his runaway best seller,
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East
meets West...
more
Literary Fiction
The Twelfth Card
by
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 06/06/2005
A two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs
try to ...
more
Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France
by
Daniel Coyle
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/13/2005
The extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits, a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of Armstrong -- perhaps the most
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Killing Time
by
Linda Howard
Ballantine Books, 06/13/2005
In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in
2085. ...
more
Romance
Marriage Most Scandalous
by
Johanna Lindsey
Pocket Books, 06/13/2005
Lady Margaret Landor first met Sebastian Townshend as a child, when
he caught her peeking into her older sister's engagement ball. ...
more
Romance
One Shot
by
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 06/13/2005
When a former soldier is accused of a random killing spree, Jack Reacher heads not to his rescue, but to aid his prosecution. For
...
more
Thrillers
The Nobodies
by
N E Bode
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/13/2005
Ages 12+.
2nd in the series (starting with
The Anybodies). Now reunited with her real family, eleven-year-old Fern goes to a camp to learn to ...
more
Mysteries
The Ranger's Apprentice
by
John Flanagan
Philomel, 06/13/2005
They have always scared him in the past—the Rangers, with their dark
cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The United States of Wal-Mart
by
John Dicker
Jeremy P Tarcher, 06/13/2005
An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest - and most reviled - corporation, which reveals that while Wal-Mart's
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Record-Breaking Victory
by
John Wilcockson
Da Capo Press, 06/14/2005
Taking place over twenty-three days in July and across more than 2,100 miles of smooth blacktop, rough cobblestones, and punishing mountain terrain, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
by
Rick Riordan
Miramax, 06/15/2005
There is no such twelve-year-old boy as Perseus 'Percy' Jackson. The Greek gods are nothing more than old myths. They certainly never have children ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Locked Rooms
by
Laurie R King
Bantam Books, 06/20/2005
After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband
Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San
...
more
Summer of Roses
by
Luanne Rice
Bantam Books, 06/20/2005
Revisiting the characters introduced in
Summer’s Child, she brings full circle one of her most compelling explorations of the
human...
more
Romance
Berenstain Bears Go Back to School
by
Stan, Jan and Michael Berenstain
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/27/2005
It's summer break, and the bear cubs are reminded by Mama Bear that fall is arriving and soon they will be going back to school. The
...
more
Literary Fiction
Case of Lies
by
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Delacorte Press, 06/27/2005
For lawyer and single mother, Nina Reilly, the mountain town of Lake Tahoe is home. It’s where she forged a successful career as a tough,
...
more
Thrillers
Cross Bones
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 06/27/2005
When an Orthodox Jewish man is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure
out ...
more
Fire Sale
by
Sara Paretsky
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/27/2005
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When she takes over
coaching...
more
High Plains Tango
by
Robert James Waller
Shaye Areheart Books, 06/27/2005
Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever
...
more
Romance
Magic Street
by
Orson Scott Card
Del Rey, 06/27/2005
In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los
Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mine Are Spectacular!
by
Lynn Schnurnberger and Janice Kaplan
Ballantine Books, 06/27/2005
From the authors of
The Botox Diaries. In the wealthy New York suburb of Hadley Farms, divorced mom Sara Turner is juggling a new fiancé, a new ...
more
Literary Fiction
72 Hour Hold
by
Bebe Moore Campbell
Knopf, 06/28/2005
Keri Whitmore wishes that her daughter's bipolar disorder would merely lift, leaving Trini as the bright and beautiful young girl
she ...
more
Adored
by
Tilly Bagshawe
Grand Central Publishing, 06/28/2005
Siena McMahon inherited much more from her grandfather than his smoldering good looks. Like the famous Duke McMahon, she has a
rapacious...
more
Literary Fiction
Blood of Angels
by
Reed Arvin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/28/2005
Thomas Dennehy, senior prosecutor in Davidson County, Tennessee,
doesn't recognize Nashville anymore: a decade of relentless
...
more
Thrillers
How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
by
The Dalai Lama
Atria Books, 06/28/2005
A simple yet illuminating program for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and
...
more
Advice
Lunch Money
by
Andrew Clements
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/28/2005
Greg Kenton has always had a natural talent for making
money -- despite the annoying rivalry of his neighbor Maura Shaw.
...
more
Literary Fiction
Olympos
by
Dan Simmons
Eos, 06/28/2005
A monumental work that blurs the often arbitrary line between great
sf and serious literature, Dan Simmons's
Olympos -- together
...
more
Literary Fiction
Seasons of the Sandstorms: The Magic Tree House #34
by
Mary Pope Osborne
Random House, 06/28/2005
Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the
Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to
...
more
Literary Fiction
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Pale Criminal
by
Philip Kerr
Penguin Books, 06/28/2005
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a “brilliantly innovative thriller-writer,” Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries ...
more
Freddy and Fredericka: A Novel
by
Mark Helprin
Penguin, 07/01/2005
Freddy and Fredericka will ascend the English throne only if they
reacquire the American colonies and become noble spirits in an
...
more
Literary Fiction
Heaven: A Prison Diary
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 07/01/2005
In 2001, bestselling novelist Archer was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for perjury. Volume one of his diaries detailed his
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Other
Sherlock Holmes and The King's Governess
by
Barrie Roberts
Severn House, 07/01/2005
From a manuscript believed to be the work of John H. Watson, MD:
The summer of 1897 brings visitors flocking to London for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee...
more
The Power of Three
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 07/01/2005
A riveting stand-alone novel that takes on the secret -- and not-so-secret -- lives of teenage girls, illuminating a dark tragedy with startling ...
more
Across the Wall
by
Garth Nix
Eos, 07/05/2005
Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the Wall
Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams, and he has come to realize that his destiny ...
more
Short Stories
Always Time To Die
by
Elizabeth Lowell
William Morrow, 07/05/2005
Researching personal histories isn't just Carolina "Carly" May's profession, it's her passion....But digging into the past is ...
more
Romance
Homesick Creek
by
Diane Coplin Hammond
Doubleday, 07/05/2005
Anita and Bunny have been friends since high school, when Anita was
a beauty queen runner-up and Bunny a sweet single mother of no more ...
more
Literary Fiction
Only You Can Save Mankind
by
Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/05/2005
As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Pampered Chef: The Story behind the Creation of One of Today's Most Beloved Companies
by
Doris Christopher
Currency, 07/05/2005
In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former home economist and teacher, was itching to get back into the workforce after an eight-year hiatus as
...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
by
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 07/06/2005
The secret inside story of Watergate and Deep Throat is revealed - by the famed Washington Post duo of Woodward and Bernstein, who
broke the story...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lifeguard
by
James Patterson & Andrew Gross
Little Brown & Company, 07/11/2005
For lifeguard Nick Kelley, things are almost too perfect. He spends
his days eying bikini blondes at a posh Florida resort and shares
...
more
Over Her Dead Body
by
Kate White
Grand Central Publishing, 07/11/2005
If Bailey Weggins wanted job security, she should have stayed out of
the magazine business. After getting the heave-ho from
Gloss,
...
more
Breaking Point: A Novel
by
Suzanne Brockmann
Ballantine Books, 07/12/2005
As commander of the nation’s most elite FBI counterterrorism unit, agent Max Bhagat leads by hard-driving example: pushing himself to the limit ...
more
Romance
Charles Colson: A Life Redeemed
by
Jonathan Aitken
Doubleday, 07/12/2005
He was Nixon's hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.
Biography/Memoir
Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/12/2005
James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and
...
more
Double Cross Blind
by
Joel Ross
Doubleday, 07/12/2005
It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to ...
more
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs
by
illustrated Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
Candlewick Press, 07/12/2005
From renowned pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved extinct animals and their ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Romance
Origin in Death
by
J. D. Robb
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/12/2005
Set in 2059 in New York City, the number-one bestselling
In Death series has given fans a searing glimpse into near-future law and order. Now, as ...
more
Until I Find You
by
John Irving
Random House, 07/12/2005
Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shapes him are his relationships with older women. John Irving
renders ...
more
Literary Fiction
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Down Range: Navy SEALs in The War on Terrorism
by
Dick Couch
Crown, 07/19/2005
'Down range' is what SEALs in Afghanistan and Iraq call their area of operations. In this new mode of warfare, 'down range' can refer
to...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Literary Fiction
Romance
Double Tap
by
Steve Martini
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/26/2005
Emiliano Ruiz, is an enigma - a career soldier who refuses to discuss his past though it is clear that he is a battle-tested pro.
Ruiz ...
more
Mysteries
Long Time Gone
by
J.A. Jance
William Morrow, 07/26/2005
After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working
for the...
more
Thrillers
Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel
by
Meg Cabot
HarperTeen, 07/26/2005
Ages 12+.
Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for:
10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David
9. With her boyfriend, the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
by
Stephen Walker
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/26/2005
The Japanese Supreme Council surrendered nine days later, after a second bomb, to similarly devastating effect, had leveled Nagasaki.
...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Chill of Fear
by
Kay Hooper
Bantam Books, 07/26/2005
FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even
before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special ...
more
Romance
The Patriot's Club
by
Christopher Reich
Delacorte Press, 07/26/2005
Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he’s managed to put his past behind
him,...
more
Thrillers
Field of Blood
by
Denise Mina
Little Brown & Company, 07/28/2005
The first in a new series by Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina. Fresh from school, Paddy Meehan has just started work on the Scottish Daily ...
more
False Alarm: The Truth About The Epidemic of Fear
by
Marc Siegel
Wiley, 08/01/2005
Life today for citizens of the developed world is
far safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history. Modern
medicine has ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson
by
Keith Ablow
St. Martin's Press, 08/01/2005
The Scott Peterson murder case is the most gripping
and highly publicized crime story of the 21st Century. It has captivated a
public hungry ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Match Me If You Can
by
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
William Morrow, 08/01/2005
Annabelle is tired of being the lone failure in a
family of overachievers. She's endured dead-end jobs and a broken engagement.
Even her ...
more
New Rules: Polite Musings of a Timid Observer
by
Bill Maher
Rodale Books, 08/01/2005
Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who have begun to influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Summer He Didn't Die
by
Jim Harrison
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/01/2005
Three novellas that celebrate life, wit, and
family in all its forms. In the title novella, "The Summer He Didn't Die,"
Harrison ...
more
Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Thirty-Three Teeth
by
Colin Cotterill
Soho Press, 08/01/2005
The national coroner of Laos, Dr. Siri Paiboun, is no respecter of persons or party; at his advanced age he can afford to be independent. With the ...
more
Dying For A Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease
by
Murray Waldman, MD and Marjorie Lamb
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/04/2005
It's widely accepted nowadays that memory loss comes with age.
Alzheimer's currently robs at least 15 million people of their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dead End
by
Mariah Stewart
Ballantine Books, 08/09/2005
Bestselling author Mariah Stewart proved she can
knock 'em dead with the best when she delivered the resounding one-two-three
punch of her ...
more
Romance
Sweetwater Creek
by
Ann Rivers Siddons
HarperCollins Publishers, 08/09/2005
At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well.
Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her
beloved ...
more
The Book of Spirits
by
James Reese
William Morrow, 08/09/2005
September, 1826. The witch Herculine stands on the
deck of a ship bound for Virginia, leaving behind a strange and violent
childhood in ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Vacation
by
Polly Horvath
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/09/2005
When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary
in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care
of his Aunts...
more
Children's Books
Chill Factor
by
Sandra Brown
Simon & Schuster, 08/15/2005
Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the
kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking
violations. Not ...
more
Thrillers
Literary Fiction
Lunar Park
by
Bret Easton Ellis
Knopf, 08/16/2005
Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost
immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long
seeing your ...
more
Literary Fiction
Pirate
by
Ted Bell
Atria Books, 08/16/2005
Aboard the Star of Shanghai in the south of France, an
American spy is held captive. He possesses vital, explosive intelligence
linking two ...
more
Thrillers
Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
by
Roy Adkins
Viking, 08/18/2005
On the battle's 200th anniversary, Roy Adkins offers
readers a brutally vivid, gunport-level account of the battle. For more than
five hours ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Straight Into Darkness
by
Faye Kellerman
Grand Central Publishing, 08/22/2005
In 1920s Munich, the body of Anna Gross, a young society wife, has been found in the English Gardens, still clothed in finery. Soon a second body is ...
more
Thrillers
Perfect Nightmare
by
John Saul
Ballantine Books, 08/23/2005
Someone is trolling this peaceful community – undetected
and undeterred – harvesting victims for a purpose no sane mind can fathom.
...
more
Mysteries
Point Blank
by
Catherine Coulter
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/23/2005
Point Blank's propulsive story takes off when FBI agents
Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed while trying to rescue popular
...
more
Romance
Scooter
by
Mick Foley
Knopf, 08/23/2005
The time is 1969. Scooter Riley is a regular kid growing up in the Bronx, on
Shakespeare Avenue, just north of Yankee Stadium. His father, Patrick...
more
Literary Fiction
Star Struck
by
Pamela Anderson
Atria Books, 08/23/2005
Star Wood Leigh is star struck in life
and love. A hasty secret marriage to rock 'n' roll bad boy Jimi Deed
triggers a chain of events ...
more
Literary Fiction
Science, Health and the Environment
Tyrannosaur Canyon
by
Douglas Preston
Forge Books, 08/23/2005
A moon rock missing for thirty years...Five buckets
of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...A scientist with ambition
enough to ...
more
Thrillers
Vanish
by
Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books, 08/23/2005
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant
homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a
hostage crisis ...
more
Thrillers
Without Mercy
by
Jack Higgins
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/23/2005
In Jack Higgins's acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice,
intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the
United States ...
more
Thrillers
Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turmed a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies
by
Paul Orfalea with Ann M
Workman, 08/28/2005
A charismatic, heart-warming business memoir that's filled with life lessons on overcoming obstacles,
Copy This! is a book for every business ...
more
A Field Guide to Buying Organic
by
Luddene Perry
Bantam Books, 08/30/2005
What does it really mean when a food is labeled organic? While many of us believe there are good reasons to buy organic, what exactly are they? The ...
more
Advice
Angels In The Gloom
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 08/30/2005
An intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder
that features an honorable English family – brothers Joseph and Matthew
Reavley ...
more
Literary Fiction
Faithless
by
Karin Slaughter
Delacorte Press, 08/30/2005
Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton returns in Slaughter's Grant County crime
thriller series (
Indelible), and this time she's hot on the trail ...
more
Thrillers
First Warning: Acorna's Children
by
Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth A. Scarborough
Eos, 08/30/2005
Khorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her
lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of
her own through...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Scribner, 08/30/2005
The human animal in all its fascinating
quirks of nature is showcased in this thoughtful and entertaining essay
collection from America's ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Polar Shift
by
Clive Cussler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/30/2005
Polar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may
have occurred many times in the past. At the very least, it disorients birds
and animals...
more
Thrillers
Slow Burn
by
Julie Garwood
Ballantine Books, 08/30/2005
Set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, The Last Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches...
more
Romance
The Hunt Ball
by
Rita Mae Brown
Ballantine Books, 08/30/2005
The
trouble begins at Custis Hall, an exclusive girls' school in Virginia that has
gloried in its good name for nearly two hundred years. At ...
more
Mysteries
The Last Days of Dogtown
by
Anita Diament
Scribner, 08/30/2005
Set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, The Last Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches...
more
Literary Fiction
Fan-Tan
by
Marlon Brando, Donald Cammell & David Thompson
Knopf, 09/01/2005
A wholly unexpected, hugely entertaining work from one of the greatest actors of our time: the story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
by
Selwyn Raab
Thomas Dunne Books, 09/01/2005
Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For
decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or
Cosa Nostra)...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
by
Kate Dicamillo, illus. by Chris Van Dusen
Candlewick Press, 09/01/2005
Welcome to the wry and endearing world of Mercy Watson—the
beloved "porcine wonder" of the Watson household. In a new series from the
author ...
more
Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment
by
Gregory Berns
Henry Holt and Company, 09/01/2005
In a riveting narrative filled with trenchant insights,
Satisfaction proposes nothing less than a new way of understanding our own lives. By its ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Days of Abandonment: A Novel
by
Elena Ferrante
Europa Editions, 09/01/2005
With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house, cook meals with ...
more
Literary Fiction
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Painted Drum
by
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/01/2005
When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover...
more
Literary Fiction
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
by
Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/01/2005
Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new
novel by the author of the international bestsellers
The Alchemist and
...
more
Literary Fiction
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
by
Lisa Randall
Ecco, 09/01/2005
Randall explains the concept of additional spatial dimensions through the use of creative analogies.
Science, Health and the Environment
Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Lipstick Jungle
by
Candace Bushnell
Hyperion, 09/06/2005
The new novel that fans of the bestselling author (
Sex In The City etc) have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career women who will do ...
more
Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books, 09/07/2005
Barbara Ehrenreich's
Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in
Bait and Switch,, she enters another hidden realm of the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Foretelling
by
Alice Hoffman
Little Brown & Company, 09/07/2005
A transformative coming-of-age story that pierces the soul and heals the spirit. Rain is a girl of the Amazon tribe of women warriors, the daughter of...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pornified: How the Culture of Pornography Is Changing Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
by
Pamela Paul
Times Books, 09/08/2005
Critically acclaimed author Pamela Paul argues that as porn has become more pervasive, it has changed our marriages and families as well as our ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by
John Battelle
Portfolio, 09/08/2005
Jumping into the game long after Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and other pioneers, Google offered a radical new approach to search, redefined the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Cities: A Magisterial Exploration of the Nature and Impact of the City from Its Beginnings to the Mega-Conurbations of Today
by
John Reader
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/09/2005
An eye-opening journey from the earliest settlements in Mesopotamia to the sprawling megalopolises of today—Tokyo, Mexico City, and Sao Paolo. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Elsewhere
by
Gabrielle Zevin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/09/2005
Welcome to Elsewhere. The beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick, and you'll never turn even a day older ...
This is ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fury
by
Robert Tanenbaum
Atria Books, 09/09/2005
In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a ...
more
Thrillers
Goodnight Nobody
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 09/09/2005
New York Times–bestselling author Jennifer Weiner's newest novel tells the story of a young mother's move to a postcard perfect Connecticut town ...
more
The Republican War on Science
by
Chris Mooney
Basic Books, 09/09/2005
A stinging indictment of how one party has placed politics over science and embraced politically motivated pseudoscience.....In the White House and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fiddlers: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
by
Ed McBain
Harcourt, 09/12/2005
Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct
series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the
profile. A ...
more
Mysteries
America's Constitution: A Biography
by
Akhil Reed Amar
Random House, 09/13/2005
One of this era's most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cinnamon Kiss
by
Walter Mosley
Little Brown & Company, 09/13/2005
Easy Rawlins is up against his greatest challenge
ever--a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love.
Flush
by
Carl Hiassen
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/13/2005
Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor – which has made taking a dip at the ...
more
Harriet The Spy: Double Agent
by
Louise Fitzhugh & Maya Gold
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 09/13/2005
Harriet is impressed to learn that the girl she has befriended, now called Annie Smith, is the person who not only created three names–Rosarita ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
by
Jonathan Kozol
Crown, 09/13/2005
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Turning: New Stories
by
Tim Winton
Scribner, 09/13/2005
Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds -- changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and ...
more
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
by
The Dalai Lama
Broadway Books, 09/13/2005
In this rare, personal investigation, His Holiness the
Dalai Lama discusses his vision of science and faith working hand in hand to
alleviate ...
more
Advice
Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
by
Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert, John Howe, Tomislav Tomic and Helen Ward
Candlewick Press, 09/13/2005
A remarkable new find for devotees of the bestselling
Dragonology and
Egyptology and Apprentices seeking the Power of Wizards for Good Purpose. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
by
Yiyun Li
Random House, 09/20/2005
Brilliant and original,
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
by
David Rakoff
DoubleDay, 09/20/2005
At once a Wildean satire of our ridiculous culture of overconsumption and a plea for a little human decency,
Don't Get Too Comfortable shows that ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Advice
Beyond the Blonde
by
Kathleen Flynn-Hui
Grand Central Publishing, 09/21/2005
Welcome to Jean-Luc, New York's hottest salon du jour, where high above Madison Avenue, Georgia Watkins - star colorist - tends the hair of ...
more
Literary Fiction
Slow Man
by
J. M Coetzee
Viking, 09/22/2005
When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed whether he likes it or not. Stubbornly ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Lioness and Her Knight: The Squire's Tales
by
Gerald Morris
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 09/26/2005
Luneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother and father (who happens to be the most boring knight of King Arthur's Round Table). She ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
by
Diana Gabaldon
Delacorte Press, 09/27/2005
The sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time...
more
Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship
by
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Ballantine Books, 09/27/2005
The challenge that bestselling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson set for himself was formidable: to create a true interspecies peaceable kingdom within...
more
Other
School Days
by
Robert B Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/27/2005
The celebrated series continues as a troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his career.
The Divide
by
Nicholas Evans
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/27/2005
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman
embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police
work with ...
more
Romance
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by
Melanie Rehak
Harcourt, 09/30/2005
A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, ...
more
Other
The Dark Side of the Moon: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece
by
John Harris
Da Capo Press, 09/30/2005
A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time........
more
Biography/Memoir
Missing Mom
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 10/01/2005
Oates returns to upstate New York's Mount Ephraim, the setting of
We Were the Mulvaneys. This time, she focuses on the middle class - Nikki Eaton...
more
Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption
by
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
William Morrow, 10/01/2005
Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by
Nathaniel C. Fick
Houghton Mifflin, 10/03/2005
If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for the
Reconnaissance...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by
Simon Winchester
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/04/2005
Simon Winchester brings his inimitable take to this story, exploring not only what happened in Northern California in 1906, but what we have learned ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
by
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 10/04/2005
The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young...
more
Biography/Memoir
Blue Smoke
by
Nora Roberts
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/04/2005
The blaze that night at her family's pizzeria changed young Reena Hale's life. Neighbors and relatives would help the Hales rebuild. The Baltimore ...
more
Romance
Everyone Worth Knowing
by
Lauren Weisberger
Simon & Schuster, 10/04/2005
On paper, Bette Robinson's life is good. At twenty-six, she's got a great deal on an apartment in Manhattan, and she's on target to become...
more
Literary Fiction
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by
Tony Judt
Penguin Press, 10/06/2005
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Healthy Aging
by
Andrew Weil
Knopf, 10/08/2005
Spontaneous Healing . . . Eight Weeks to Optimum Health . . . Eating Well for Optimum Health . . . The Healthy Kitchen – in each of his widely ...
more
Advice
A Wedding in December
by
Anita Shreve
Little Brown & Company, 10/10/2005
The author of the New York Times bestseller
Light on Snow returns with a powerful new novel about old friends, a wedding, and a gathering that will ...
more
Literary Fiction
American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release
by
Micah Garen, Marie-Helene Carleton
Simon & Schuster, 10/11/2005
Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton were journalists and filmmakers working in Iraq on a documentary about the looting of the country'...
more
Biography/Memoir
Knife of Dreams: Wheel of Time, Book 11
by
Robert Jordan
Tor Books, 10/11/2005
The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy.
The dead are walking, men die ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Best Recipes in the World: More than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home
by
Mark Bittman
Broadway Books, 10/11/2005
The author of
How to Cook Everything takes you on the culinary trip of a lifetime. Mark Bittman traveled the world to find and bring back the best ...
more
The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business
by
Martha Stewart
Rodale Books, 10/11/2005
For the first time, Martha Stewart shares her business knowledge and advice in this handbook for success. Tapping into her years of experience in ...
more
Advice
The Planets
by
Dava Sobel
Viking, 10/11/2005
With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers
Longitude and
Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving ...
more
Vox: The Edge Chronicles, Book 6
by
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
David Fickling Books, 10/11/2005
The sixth part of this dramatic and exuberant fantasy adventure series. This is the second title to feature young librarian-knight, Rook, as he and ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by
George Packer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/15/2005
Recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL
by
John Feinstein
Little Brown & Company, 10/17/2005
An up-close look inside an NFL powerhouse, from the only writer in America who players and coaches would trust with their secrets. Despite--or perhaps...
more
Other
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Twelfth
by
Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/18/2005
Little is known about
The Penultimate Peril in this alarming phenomenon. What we do know is contained in the following brief list:
In this book ...
more
Literary Fiction
At First Sight
by
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 10/18/2005
Nicholas Sparks brings back two characters from his beloved bestseller,
True Believer, in this continuing saga of extraordinary love.
Romance
First Man: The Life of Neil A Armstrong
by
James R Hansen
Simon & Schuster, 10/18/2005
In a penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. In ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by
Mary Roach
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/24/2005
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that - the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Iron Orchid
by
Stuart Woods
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/25/2005
Holly Barker, the small-town cop turned CIA agent, tracks a master of disguise - and a consummate killer.
Predator
by
Patricia Cornwell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/25/2005
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to ...
more
Thrillers
Literary Fiction
The Camel Club
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 10/25/2005
It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. ...
more
The Google Story
by
David Vise & Mark Malseed
Delacorte Press, 10/25/2005
Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate
by
Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro
Viking, 10/28/2005
Whether you are negotiating a business contract or curfew with your teenager, emotions can get you in trouble. They also can help you get what you ...
more
Advice
Mencken: The American Iconoclast
by
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Oxford University Press, 10/29/2005
A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
700 Sundays
by
Billy Crystal
Grand Central Publishing, 11/01/2005
A poignant, hilarious, and personal portrayal of his youth. Crystal's play broke Broadway box office records and failed to leave a dry eye in the...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Christmas Guest
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 11/01/2005
Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Short History of Myth
by
Karen Armstrong
Canongate Books, 11/01/2005
This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history
of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title
of the groundbreaking ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
At All Costs
by
David Weber
Baen Books, 11/01/2005
'What price victory? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor ...
more
Literary Fiction
Between You and Me: A Memoir
by
Mike Wallace with Gary Paul Gates
Hyperion, 11/01/2005
At the age of 87, Mike Wallace is a legendary figure in broadcast journalism. Now, after 60 years of reporting on important events around the world, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
by
John McCain & Mark Salter
Random House, 11/01/2005
John McCain and Mark Salter have written three
acclaimed bestsellers, but
Character Is Destiny may be their most
influential and enduring book yet ...
more
Advice
Comfort and Joy
by
Kristin Hannah
Ballantine Books, 11/01/2005
In this modern-day fairy tale, New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah gives us a very special gift: the heartwarming story of a woman at a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Counting Heads
by
David Marusek
Tor Books, 11/01/2005
Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique ...
more
Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
by
Kenneth C. Davis
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/01/2005
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About series -- a magical journey into the timeless world of mythology. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
End of the Beginning
by
Harry Turtledove
NAL, 11/01/2005
In this alternate history of World War II, the Japanese follow up their Pearl Harbor attack with the successful occupation of Hawaii. Now America is ...
more
Flashman on the March: From the Flashman Papers, 1867-8
by
George Macdonald Fraser
Knopf, 11/01/2005
12th in the series. It's 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain...
more
Literary Fiction
Hot Flash Holidays
by
Nancy Thayer
Ballantine Books, 11/01/2005
3rd in the series featuring the intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club. They're back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed ...
more
Literary Fiction
Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dream
by
Aleta St. James
Fireside, 11/01/2005
Aleta St. James has spent the past twenty-five
years as an emotional healer and life coach developing a system for
creating deep and dramatic life ...
more
Advice
Mary Magdalene: A Biography
by
Bruce Chilton
Doubleday, 11/01/2005
After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Memories of John Lennon
by
edited by Yoko Ono
HarperEntertainment, 11/01/2005
John Lennon . . . as much a part of our world today as he ever was. He touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues to move and inspire...
more
Biography/Memoir
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by
Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster, 11/01/2005
President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In
Living Faith, a huge bestseller, he recounted the values and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets
by
Jude Morgan
St. Martin's Press, 11/01/2005
In the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, three poets--Byron, Shelley, and Keats--come to prominence, famous and ...
more
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 11/01/2005
On May 18, 1860, in the midst of the nominating
battle at the Republican National Convention, four contenders – Lincoln,
Seward, Chase and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Beatles: The Biography
by
Bob Spitz
Little Brown & Company, 11/01/2005
As soon as the Beatles became famous, the spin machines began to construct a myth, a myth that has continued to this day. Biographers have come and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Vanishing Act
by
Art Wolfe
Bulfinch, 11/01/2005
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Other
The Other Side of Me
by
Sidney Sheldon
Grand Central Publishing, 11/05/2005
Sidney Sheldon is truly an entertainment legend: Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award¨-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4
by
George R.R. Martin
Bantam Spectra, 11/08/2005
Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s ...
more
Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide
by
Maureen Dowd
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/08/2005
Fresh from her success with the bestselling
Bushworld, Maureen Dowd turns her lapidary prose and wicked wit to a
topic even more incendiary than ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Light From Heaven: Mitford Years (Final Volume)
by
Jan Karon
Viking, 11/08/2005
All good things—even laughter and orange marmalade cake—must come to an end. And in
Light from Heaven, the long-anticipated final volume in...
more
Literary Fiction
Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education
by
Jonathan Kaplan
Grove Press, 11/09/2005
From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book
The Dressing Station, comes an electrifying memoir of a doctor's education...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
by
Margaret Atwood
Canongate Books, 11/09/2005
Homer's
Odyssey is not the only version of the
story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth
would be told one way in one ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
by
Jeanette Winterson
Canongate Books, 11/09/2005
"When I was asked to choose a myth to write
about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up
the world was in my mind before ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mary, Mary: An Alex Cross Novel
by
James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 11/14/2005
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family at Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her ...
more
The Truth of the Matter
by
Robb Forman Dew
Little Brown & Company, 11/14/2005
Widowed years before by her husband Warren's early death in an icy morning car crash, Agnes Scofield has grown into a woman of fierce and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Forever Odd
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 11/29/2005
Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, ...
more
Thrillers
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
by
Doris Lessing
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/01/2005
Toward the end of his long life, Goethe said that
he had only just learned how to read. In this collection of the very
best of Doris Lessing's ...
more
Brokeback Mountain
by
Annie Proulx
Scribner, 12/02/2005
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "...
more
Literary Fiction
S Is For Silence
by
Sue Grafton
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/06/2005
Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In...
more
Target
by
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
Laurel-Leaf, 12/13/2005
Savagely violated by two strangers, 16-year-old Grady West retreats into a deep silence. Everything about the life he knew fades away. He switches to ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Abs Diet Get Fit Stay Fit Plan: The Exercise Program to Flatten Your Belly, Reshape Your Body, and Give You ABS for Life!
by
David Zinczenko & Ted Spiker
Rodale Books, 12/13/2005
The third book in the bestselling Abs Diet series—hundreds of exercise options to help you rev up your metabolism, burn fat, build muscle, and ...
more
Advice
She Got up off the Couch
by
Haven Kimmel
Free Press, 12/20/2005
Haven Kimmel invites us to rejoin the quirky and hilarious Jarvis family saga (first seen in
A Girl Named Zippy). Zippy is growing up and struggling ...
more
Every Breath You Take
by
Judith McNaught
Ballantine Books, 12/27/2005
Unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and riveting suspense: These are the trademarks of beloved author Judith McNaught. With millions of ...
more
Thrillers
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by
Caroline Elkins
Owl Books, 12/27/2005
Forty years after Kenyan independence from Britain, the words "Mau Mau" still conjure images of crazed savages hacking up hapless white settlers with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On The Run
by
Iris Johansen
Bantam Books, 12/27/2005
The picture was a warning: they'd found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn't come–and knew in her heart that it would.
...
more
Advice
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
by
Kaye Gibbons
Harcourt, 12/27/2005
This sequel to Gibbons's beloved classic
Ellen Foster stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out...
more
Literary Fiction
Warriors: The New Prophecy #3: Dawn
by
Erin Hunter
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/27/2005
Something terrifying is happening in the world of the Clans. Amid the destruction of the forest, cats are disappearing, including ThunderClan's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again: the True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny
by
Suzanne Hansen
Crown, 12/27/2005
When Oregon native Suzanne Hansen becomes a live-in nanny to the children of Hollywood über-agent Michael Ovitz, she thinks she's found the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Homer Price
by
Robert McCloskey
Puffin, 12/29/2005
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy ...
more
Literary Fiction
