All Stars - Fiction

• The Hakawati
  Author: Alameddine, Rabih
  Publisher: Knopf $25.95 ISBN: 9780307266798 Date: 2008
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  Alameddine's astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel takes readers from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of 21-century Lebanon. The Hakawati is a modern Arabian Nights--a funny, captivating novel that enchants and dazzles.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• A Golden Age
  Author: Anam, Tahmima
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061478741 Date: 2008
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  In her deeply moving debut novel, Anam tells the story of a young widow who becomes embroiled in the violent political turmoil in 1971 that transforms a brutal Pakistani civil war into a fight for the death for Bangladeshi independence.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Debuts
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• City of Thieves
  Author: Benioff, David
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670018703 Date: 2008
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  A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
  Updated4.24.08
  
• Atmospheric Disturbances
  Author: Galchen, Rivka
  Publisher: FSG $ 23 ISBN: 9780374200114 Date: 2008
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  At once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind, this highly inventive debut explores the mysterious nature of human relationships.
  Updated 5.2.08
  
• Lavinia
  Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 9780151014248 Date: 2008
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  In "The Aeneid," Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a this novel set in the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• Killing Rommel
  Author: Pressfield, Steven
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385519700 Date: 2008
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  Hitler's legions have swept across Europe, leaving Churchill and the English isolated. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oil fields of the Middle East, in Pressfield's latest riveting historical novel.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Lush Life
  Author: Price, Richard
  Publisher: FSG $ 26 ISBN: 9780374299255 Date: 2008
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  In Lush Life, Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour, in this novel that reads like a movie in prose" ("New York Times").
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• Three Girls and Their Brother
  Author: Rebeck, Theresa
  Publisher: Crown $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307394149 Date: 2008
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  In this sharp-edged drama that unfolds in New York's celebrity fast lane, it takes an awful incident with a famous movie star to blast three famous girls--and their brother--out of their self-destructive spiral.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories
  Author: Strout, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Random $ 25 ISBN: 9781400062089 Date: 2008
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  "New York Times" bestselling author Strout binds together 13 rich, luminous narratives through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge, who offers profound insights into the human condition.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  Author: Wroblewksi, David
  Publisher: Ecco $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780061374227 Date: 2008
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  This riveting saga of an American family captures the deep and ancient alliance between humans and dogs, and the power of fate through one boy's epic journey into the wild.
  Updated 4.24.08
  

All Stars - Crime Fiction

• Hold Tight
  Author: Coben, Harlan
  Publisher: Dutton $26.95 ISBN: 9780525950608 Date: 2008
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  The "New York Times" bestselling author of The Woods asks the provocative and terrifying question: How much do parents really want to know about their kids and how far will they go to find out?
  Updated 3.31.08
  
• Gas City
  Author: Estleman, Loren D.
  Publisher: Forge $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780765319562 Date: 2008
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  Setting this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption--in all, a stunning portrait of the human condition.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• The Forgery of Venus
  Author: Gruber, Michael
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060874483 Date: 2008
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  Gruber creates a fascinating world of secrets, genius, and conspiracies and combines it with brilliant storytelling, complex characterizations, and sterling prose to produce this spellbinding novel.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Art | Forgery of Venus
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Cheating at Solitaire
  Author: Haddam, Jane
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312343088 Date: 2008
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  Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, fleeing from his own wedding preparations, is hired to review a case--one that he finds has little evidence and twisted by an out-of-control media--in what may be the most compelling case of his entire career.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• The Cruelest Month: Three Pines
  Author: Penny, Louise
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312352578 Date: 2008
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  The cozy, seemingly idyllic town of Three Pines is thrown into chaos when an impromptu sance turns deadly. In this complex, accomplished mystery, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must confront a myriad of baffling questions surrounding the case.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• Salt River
  Author: Sallis, James
  Publisher: Walker $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780802716170 Date: 2008
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  The poignant and surprising new thriller by one of Americas most acclaimed writers follows ex-cop, ex-con, and war veteran John Turner as he goes in search of a truth hes not sure he can live with.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• Judas Horse: Ana Grey
  Author: Smith, April
  Publisher: Knopf $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781400042050 Date: 2008
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  Maverick FBI Special Agent Ana Grey goes undercover to infiltrate the volatile core of a domestic terrorist cell, where she must negotiate a minefield of loyalty and betrayal under constant threat of discovery.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• Child 44
  Author: Smith, Tom Rob
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446402385 Date: 2008
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  In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• Vienna Blood
  Author: Tallis, Frank
  Publisher: Random $ 15 ISBN: 9780812977769 Date: 2008
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  In 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons Dr. Max Liebermann to assist him with the case. The investigation draws them into the sphere of Viennas secret societies, in this second novel to feature literature's first psychoanalytic detective.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• The Fault Tree
  Author: Ure, Louise
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312375850 Date: 2008
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  Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran is no stranger to darkness. She was blinded in a horrific car accident eight years ago that also took the life of her three-year old niece. She knows she was only partially to blame, but that doesn't make the loss any easier to bear. She's learned to get by, but there are still painful memories. When she is almost run down by a speeding car on the way home from work, Cadence at first thinks that she is the victim of road rage or a bad driver. But that's not the case. In fact, she is the only witness to the murder of her elderly neighbor, and now the killer believes that she's seen the getaway car.Louise Ure paints the glare of a Southwestern summer with the brush of a blind woman's darkness in this novel of jeopardy and courage ... and the fine line between them--as Cadence fights to stop a killer she can't see. - Publisher Marketing
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.30.08
  

Crime Fiction

Action and Adventure Booklist

Fiction

• The Sugar Queen
  Author: Allen, Sarah Addison
  Publisher: Bantam $ 22 ISBN: 9780553805499 Date: 2008
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  In this irresistible follow-up to her "New York Times"-bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Somnambulist
  Author: Barnes, Jonathan
  Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780061375385 Date: 2008
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  This extraordinary tale involves Edward Moon, stage magician and detective, his silent sidekick the Somnambulist, and a devilish plot to re-create the apocalyptic prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and bring the British Empire crashing down.
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• Beginner's Greek
  Author: Collins, James
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 23.99 ISBN: 9780316021555 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams, but in his room that night Peter discovers the paper on which she wrote her phone number is inexplicably gone. Both incisive and wonderfully funny, this is a brilliantly understated comedy of manners in which love lost is found again.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 10.2.07
  
• The Konkans
  Author: D'Souza, Tony
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 9780151015191 Date: 2008
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  Francisco D'Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son in a long line of proud Konkans. His mother and his uncle Sam feed Franciscos imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history, in this novel filled with romance, comedy, and masterful storytelling.
  Updated 10.23.07
  
• Mudbound
  Author: Jordan, Hillary
  Publisher: Algonquin $ 21.95 ISBN: 9781565125698 Date: 2008
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  Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, Mudbound is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.
  Updated 1.3.08
  
• Song Yet Sung
  Author: McBride, James
  Publisher: Riverhead $ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594489723 Date: 2008
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  A runaway slave and a determined slave catcher become tangled in a web of intrigue and adventure in James McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre-Civil War Maryland.
  Updated 10.26.07
• Cost
  Author: Robinson, Roxana
  Publisher: FSG $ 25 ISBN: 9780374271879 Date: 2008
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  In this luminous and gripping new novel, Robinson tackles addiction and explores its effects on the bonds of family, dazzling readers with her hallmark subtlety and precision in evoking the emotional interiors of her characters.
  Updated 5.2.08
  

Romance

• Deep Dish
  Author: Andrews, Mary Kay
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060837365 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Deep Dish offers a delicious treat full of Southern sass, wit, and charm from the author of Savannah Breeze and Hissy Fit.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Sizzle and Burn
  Author: Krentz, Jayne Ann
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399154454 Date: 2008
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  The "New York Times" bestselling author of White Lies presents her newest Arcane Society novel. A member of the Society must recruit a reluctant woman to use her psychic gift against a powerful enemy, in this a delightful new caper filled with suspense and wit.
  Updated 1.3.08
  
• Accidently Yours
  Author: Mallery, Susan
  Publisher: Hqn $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780373772056 Date: 2008
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  Kerri Sullivan courageously cares for her son Cody and convinces him that he has supergenes that will control his deadly disease. After wealthy developer Nathan King refuses to fund research that could prolong Cody's life, Kerri won't take no for an answer.
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• Silent in the Sanctuary
  Author: Raybourn, Deanna
  Publisher: Mira $ 13.95 ISBN: 9780778324928 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Lady Julia returns to celebrate the holidays only to find her fathers home crowded with family, friends, and Nicholas Brisbane, the one man she had hoped to forget. The celebrations take a ghastly turn after a guest is found brutally murdered, and one of Lady Julias cousins confesses to the crime.
  Updated 10.23.07
  

Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror

Three wolfish titles for the summer

• Sharp Teeth
  Author: Barlow, Toby
  Publisher: Harpercollins $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780061430220 Date: 2008
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  Capturing the pace and feel of a graphic novel, this spellbinding debut blends dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos. Overbooked note: And it is written in blank verse...
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• Lonely Werewolf Girl
  Author: Martin, Millar
  Publisher: Soft Skull $ 15.95 ISBN: 978097663666 Date: 2008
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  The latest urban fantasy from Martin Millar, featuring a parallel world of werewolves of every stripe and character causing intentional and unintentional mayhem on the streets of London and the moors of Scotland... - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 3.31.08
  
• The Wolfman
  Author: Pekearo, Nicholas
  Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780765320261 Date: 2008
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  Marlowe Higgins is a werewolf. For years he struggled with his affliction, until he finds a way to use this unfortunate curse for good--he only kills really bad people. Settling at last in a small town, Higgins realizes he isn't the only monster lurking in the area.
  Updated 5.12.08
  

If you don't want to join a wolfpack, try these...

• Vicious Circle (July)
  Author: Carey, Mike
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446580311 Date: 2008
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  Following in the footsteps of bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Jim Butcher, comic book writer Carey presents his second hip supernatural thriller featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Black Ships
  Author: Graham, Jo
  Publisher: Orbit $ 14 ISBN: 9780316068000 Date: 2008
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  Gull--chosen at the age of seven to be the voice of the Lady of the Dead--is destined to counsel kings. When nine black ships appear, captained by an exiled Trojan prince, Gull must decide whether to accept the life for which she has been chosen.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• The Dreaming Void
  Author: Hamilton, Peter F.
  Publisher: Del Rey $ 27 ISBN: 9780345496539 Date: 2008
  LJ Kirkus
  Featuring characters from the bestselling Judas Unchained, this novel begins a stunning new trilogy set in a far future where one great mystery remains: the nature of what is hiding within the Void, an area of space from which amazing dreams are being projected, allowing people everywhere to experience a reality never before imagined.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities
  Author: Lennon, Tim and Christopher Golden
  Publisher: Spectra $ 12 ISBN: 9780553384697 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Two of today's brightest stars of dark fantasy combine their award-winning talents in this spellbinding new tale of magic, terror, and adventure that begins when a young woman slips through the space between the everyday world and the one hiding just beneath it.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Victory of Eagles (July)
  Author: Novik, Naomi
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780345496881 Date: 2008
  PW
  The acclaimed series, starring the fighting dragon Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, reaches a peak of excitement with this latest installment from award-winning author Novik.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Veil of Gold (August)
  Author: Wilkins, Kim
  Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN:9780765320063 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus
  The Veil of Gold is a startling new fantasy novel from one of Australia's bestselling fantasy talents.
  Updated 5.29.08