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New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on these lists. Books for kids and teens (fiction and nonfiction) are also listed.

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May 2006

Nonfiction

• Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
  Author: Hessler, Peter
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26.95 ISBN: 0060826584 Date: 2006
  PWKirkus
  From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of 21st-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  Updated 2.28.06
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
  Author: Maraniss, David
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0743217810 Date: 2006
  PWLJKirkus
  From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of When Pride Still Mattered comes a book destined to become a modern classic--a full-scale biography of great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, who lived, played, and died with enduring passion and grace.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Sports Stars
  Updated 3.8.06

Fiction

• Theft
  Author: Carey, Peter
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0307263711 Date: 2006
  BooklistPWKirkusLJ
  A two-time Booker Prize-winner takes on the topic of what people will do for art, for love, and for money. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo--and exploring themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption--this novel will make readers laugh out loud.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.16.06
• The Stolen Child
  Author: Donohue, Keith
  Publisher: Nan Talese $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385516169 Date: 2006
  LJ
  When Henry Day is seven years old, he is kidnapped by ageless beings called changelings, who leave another child in Henry's place, a boy who will be his duplicate. Haunted by memories, both boys are driven to search for the keys to who they once were before they switched places.
  Suggested Reading: Contemporary Fantasy
  Updated 2.14.06
• The Good Works of Ayela Linde
  Author: Forbes, Charlotte
  Publisher: Arcade $ 24 ISBN: 1559708077 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  From an O. Henry Prize–winner, this dazzling novel in stories marks the arrival of a powerfully original and beguiling new voice in American fiction.
  The linked stories that make up this spare and beautifully written novel follow the life of Ayela, the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker, born in 1933 in the Texas border town of Santa Rosalia. - Publisher Marketing
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 3.8.06
• Firebird
  Author: Garcias y Robertson, R.
  Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765313561 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  A young orphan girl falls in love with a foreign knight, who's carrying with him the most precious artifact of the kingdom--the egg of the Firebird. The two set out on a wonderful quest, filled with spectacle, romance, and hairsbreadth escapes, to save the land and find a life together.
  Suggested Reading: Cross Genres
  Updated 3.8.06
• Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
  Author: Tiffany, Carrie
  Publisher: Scribner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0743286375 Date: 2006
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  Sensual, witty, and startlingly original, Tiffany's debut novel--about a young woman, her passionate relationship with an agricultural expert, and their efforts at scientific living--marks the arrival of a great new voice in fiction.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | All Stars
  Updated 1.28.06

Crime Fiction

• Bust
  Author: Bruen, Ken & Jason Starr
  Publisher: Hardcase $ 6.99 ISBN: 0843955910 Date: 2006
  PW
  Two of crime fiction's hottest rising stars collaborate for the first time in this suspenseful story. Everything goes wrong when cheating husband Max Fisher hires a psychotic hitman to murder his wife.
  Suggested Reading: Hard-Boiled | Noir Stars
  Updated 3.16.06
• The Saddlemaker's Wife
  Author: Fowler, Earlene
  Publisher: Berkley $ 23.95 ISBN: 0425207781 Date: 2006
  KirkusPW
  After the death of her husband, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in California. She's even more shocked to learn the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. Driven to discover the whole story, Ruby discovers a legacy of pain and denial.
  Updated 3.21.06
• The King of Lies
  Author: Hart, John
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 031234161x Date: 2006
  PWBooklistLJ
  When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface, and he sees his own carefully constructed facade begin to crack.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Debuts | Legal Stars
  Updated 3.20.06
• Rabbit Factory
  Author: Karp, Marshall
  Publisher: Macadam Cage $ 25 ISBN: 1596921749 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  Rambunctious Rabbit--Rambo to his fans--is an American icon and a theme park's biggest draw. When the actor inside the Rambo costume and two other theme park employees are murdered, LAPD detectives must catch the madman before he brings the family entertainment giant to its knees.
  Updated 4.10.06
• Field of Darkness
  Author: Read, Cornelia
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 22.95 ISBN: 089296023x Date: 2006
  KirkusBooklistLJ
  A tough-talking, shotgun-toting debutante gets in over her head investigatinga pair of cold case murders in this assured, thrilling first novel.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Debuts
  Updated 3.20.06

Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages

Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.

 

• Lilly's Big Day
  Author: Henkes, Kevin
  Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060742364 Date: 2006
  Horn Book Kirkus Booklist PW SLJ
  The Caldecott Medal-winning author/illustrator of Kitten's First Full Moon brings back his beloved character from Lilly's Chocolate Heart to star in a brand-new picture book in which Lilly prepares to be the flower girl at her teacher's wedding.
  Ages: 4-8 Category: Fiction

 

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