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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.
March 2007
Nonfiction
- Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Author: Anthony, Lawrence & Graham Spence
Publisher: Thomas Dunne $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312358327 Date: 2007
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The amazing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo.
Updated 1.31.07 - Dog Years
Author: Doty, Mark
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780061171000 Date: 2007LJKirkus
Both moving and entertaining, Dog Years is the story of two beloved retrievers and is a pointed, perceptive meditation on life, death, and the nature of companionship.
Updated 1.17.06 - Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space
Author: Jones, Chris
Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385514651 Date: 2007LJ
In the 37 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has seemed more and more a routine enterprise--at least until the shuttle "Columbia" blew up, and the "Challenger" before it. Now, this true-life adventure vividly captures the dangerous realities of space travel.
Updated 2.1.07
Fiction
- Heyday
Author: Anderson, Kurt
Publisher: Random $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780375504730 Date: 2007LJPW
In a sweeping, brilliantly imagined romp through the boisterous coming of age of America, Anderson has written an irresistible old-fashioned epic as well as a thoroughly modern novel of ideas. This is a gritty, authentic, vivid story unlike any other.
Updated 1.17.06 - Finn
Author: Cinch, Jon
Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781400065912 Date: 2007KirkusPWLJ
In this masterful debut novel, Clinch takes readers on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own.
Updated 1.17.06 - Then We Came to the End
Author: Ferris, Joshua
Publisher: Little Brown $ 23.99 ISBN: 9780316016384 Date: 2007Kirkus
This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.
Updated 12.28.06 - The Hourglass
Author: Metzger, Barbara
Publisher:Signet $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780451220790 Date: 2007BooklistLJ
Coryn, Earl of Ardeth, has spent an eternity in hell. Fed up, he gambles with the Devil and wins a second chance: if he can find his heart, his soul, and his hourglass in six months, he can return to life. Then he meets Genie, a disgraced water-girl at the Battle of Waterloo. Now, her only hope is this crazy stranger.
Updated 2.19.07 - Jamestown
Author: Sharpe, Matthew
Publisher: Soft Skull $ 25 ISBN: 9781933368603 Date: 2007PW
Jamestown chronicles a group of “ settlers” (more like survivors) from the ravaged island of Manhattan, departing just as the Chrysler Building has mysteriously plummeted to the earth. This ragged band is heading down what’ s left of I-95 in a half-school bus, half-Millennium Falcon. Their goal is to establish an outpost in southern Virginia, find oil, and exploit the Indians controlling the area. Based on actual accounts of the Jamestown settlement from 1607 to 1617, Jamestown features historical characters including John Smith, Pocahontas, and others enacting an imaginative re-version of life in the pioneer colony. In this retelling, Pocahontas’ s father Powhatan is half-Falstaff, half-Henry V, while his consigliere is a psychiatrist named Sidney Feingold. John Martin gradually loses body parts in a series of violent encounters, and John Smith is a ruthless and pragmatic redhead continually undermining the aristocratic leadership. Communication is by text-messaging, IMing, and, ultimately, telepathy. Punctuated by jokes, rhymes, “ rim shot” dialogue, and bloody black-comic tableaux, Jamestown is a trenchant commentary on America's past and present that confirms Matthew Sharpe’ s status as a major talent in contemporary fiction. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 11.27.06 - Ten Days in the Hills
Author: Smiley, Jane
Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 9781400040612 Date: 2007PWBooklistLJ
This glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner is a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal--and the allure of the movies.
Updated 2.19.07 - Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
Author: Weir, Alison
Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780345494856
Date: 2007BooklistLJ
The exciting fiction debut of acclaimed historian Weir breathes life into themany dynamic personalities involved in this fascinating novel. Losing none ofits historical authenticity, the author takes the reader inside the minds andhearts of the key characters in Lady Jane Grey's story.
Updated 12.28.06 - Medicus
Author: Downie, Ruth
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781596912311 Date: 2007BooklistLJKirkus
Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. When he rescues an injured slave girl, she drags trouble in her wake.
Updated 11.1.06 - Looking Good Dead
Author: James, Peter
Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 25.95/14.95 ISBN: 9780786718801/9780786716425 Date: 2007KirkusPWLJ
Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statemenet to the murder enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons of his own to contend with. And from that moment, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality — and a grisly attraction. Kellie and Tom's deaths have already been posted on the internet; you can log on and see them on a website. They are looking good dead.
Updated 1.16.06 - Con Ed
Author: Klein Matthew
Publisher: Warner $ 23.99 ISBN: 9780446579551 Date: 2007Booklist
This darkly comic debut novel is about the world's greatest con man (before he got busted), the con man's son (who's in debt to the Russian mob), and a billionaire's beautiful wife (who's got an evil plan).
Updated 12.1.06 - Vinnie's Head
Author: Lecard, Marc
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312360214 Date: 2007PW
Lecard's debut novel, a darkly comic whodunit, is quickly drawing comparisons to Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard. After Johnnie reels in the biggest catch of his life--his best friend's Vinnie's head--he finds that Mafia thugs, bounty hunters, and Vinnie's girlfriend are after him.
Updated 1.27.07 - What the Dead Know
Author: Lippman, Laura
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061128851 Date: 2007PW
Bestselling author Lippman returns to the compelling terrain of Every Secret Thing and To the Power of Three with this indelible story of crime and vengeance in which the past becomes all too present.
Updated 1.27.07 - The Spellman Files
Author: Lutz, Lisa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 9781416532392 Date: 2007Kirkus
Meet Izzy Spellman, a 28-year-old private eye working for her family's investigative business--a family that puts the 'fun' in dysfunctional--in this irresistible, laugh-out-loud debut novel.
Updated 11.13.06 - Disturbing the Dead
Author: Parshall, Sandra
Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590583784 Date: 2007LJ
Tom Bridger thought he had escaped his mountain community's prejudice when he left to work for the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department. When a family tragedy brings him back home and into his father's job as sheriff's deputy, he discovers that his father was not the man he idolized.
Updated 12.27.06
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