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Page Modified: May 2, 2008
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.
January 2008
Nonfiction
Fiction
- A Golden Age
Author: Anam, Tahmima
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061478741 Date: 2008
PW Kirkus Booklist
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.
Updated 11.19.07
- Children of the Book
Author: Brooks, Geraldine
Publisher: Viking $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670018215 Date: 2008
Booklist
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March comes this novel--inspired by a true story--that traces the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
Updated 10.2.07
- Beaufort
Author: Leshem, Ron
Publisher: Delacorte $24 ISBN: 9780553806823 Date: 2008
Booklist LJ
By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem's debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel's top award for literature and the basis for a prizewinning film. Charged with brilliance and daring, hypnotic in its intensity, Beaufort is at once a searing coming-of-age story and a novel for our times--one of the most powerful, visceral portraits of the horror, camaraderie, and absurdity of war in modern fiction.
Updated 11.19.07
- Accidently Yours
Author: Mallery, Susan
Publisher: Hqn $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780373772056 Date: 2008
Booklist
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 Codys life, Kerri wont take no for an answer.
Updated 11.19.07
- How the Dead Dream
Author: Millet, Lydia
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard $ 24 ISBN: 9781593761844 Date: 2008
Booklist
T. is a young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions. His orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out-of-the-closet father. After his mother's suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon he's living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals. A series of calamities forces T. to a tropical island, where he takes a Conrad-esque journey up a river into the remote jungle. Millet's devastating wit, psychological acuity, and remarkable empathy for flawed humankind contend with her vision of a world slowly murdering itself.
Updated 9.24.07
Crime Fiction
- Saturday's Child
Author: Banks, Ray
Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 9780151013227 Date: 2008
Booklist
Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord "Uncle" Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn't owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan's psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer who's absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernan's son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturday's child has to work hard to keep living. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 11.19.07
- Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
Author: Brandreth, Gyles
Publisher: Touchstone $ 14 ISBN: 9781416534839 Date: 2008
Booklist
One of Britains premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries, featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective.
Updated 10.31.07
- Blue Heaven
Author: Box, C.J.
Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312365707 Date: 2008
Booklist Kirkus
With true-to-life, unforgettable characters, Box has created a thriller that delves into issues close to the heart--the pervasiveness of greed, the banality of evil, and the truth about what constitutes a family.
Updated 10.12.07
- Vienna Blood
Author: Tallis, Frank
Publisher: Random $ 15 ISBN: 9780812977769 Date: 2008
Booklist PW
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 literatures first psychoanalytic detective.
Updated 11.19.07
- The Fault Tree
Author: Ure, Louise
Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312375850 Date: 2008
Kirkus
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
Updated 11.19.07
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