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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.

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March 2008

Nonfiction

• The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
  Author: Lee, Jennifer 8
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446580076 Date: 2008
  PW
  Readers take an unexpected and entertaining journey through culinary, social, and cultural history in this delightful first book on the origins of the customary after-Chinese-dinner treat by "New York Times" reporter Lee.
  Updated 2.27.08
  
• God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
  Author: Richard, Grant
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 15 ISBN: 9781416534402 Date: 2008
  PW
  Part gonzo misadventure, part cultural history, God's Middle Finger explores a fascinating land--the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico--where few outsiders are foolish enough to venture.
  Updated 2.27.08
  

Fiction

• Black Ships
  Author: Graham, Jo
  Publisher: Orbit $ 14 ISBN: 9780316068000 Date: 2008
  PW LJ Booklist
  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 Outcast
  Author: Jones, Sadie
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061374036 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  In this brilliant debut, Jones tells the story of a boy who refuses to accept the polite lies of a tightly knit community that rejects love in favor of appearances. Written with nail-biting suspense, The Outcast is an emotionally powerful testament to the powers of love and understanding.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | All Stars
  Updated 1.31.08
  
• Mudbound
  Author: Jordan, Hillary
  Publisher: Algonquin $ 21.95 ISBN: 9781565125698 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  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
  
• The Philospher's Apprentice
  Author: Morrow, James
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780061351440 Date: 2008
  LJ
  For Mason Ambrose, a failed philosopher with lots of smarts but not much common sense, the prospect of tutoring a lonely adolescent for a small fortune seems irresistible. But all is not as it seems, in this beguiling book from one of America's premier satirists.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Lush Life
  Author: Price, Richard
  Publisher: FSG $ 26 ISBN: 9780374299255 Date: 2008
  Booklist Kirkus
  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").
  Updated 1.3.08
  
• Animal's People
  Author: Sinha, Indra
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: Sinha, Indra Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist
  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Animal's People is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Captivity
  Author: Wesselmann, Debbie Lee
  Publisher: John F. Blair $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780895873538 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  When someone releases the chimpanzees at the South Carolina Primate Project, its director, Dana Armstrong, is forced to confront the complexity of both her past and the present as she struggles to preserve the chimps' sanctuary.
  Updated 1.3.08
  

Crime Fiction

• Missing
  Author: Alvtegen, Karin
  Publisher: Felony & Mayhem $ 24 ISBN: 9781933397863 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  Ruth Rendell-style suspense set in Stockholm, by Sweden's Queen of Crime.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• The Silver Swan
  Author: Banville, John/Benjamin Black
  Publisher: 9780805081534 $ 25 ISBN: 9780805081534 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist LJ
  The inimitable Quirke--the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist--returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Terra Incognita
  Author: Downie, Ruth
  Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781596912328 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  Army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain in this highly anticipated sequel to Downie's "New York Times" bestselling debut, Medicus.
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• The Price of Blood: An Irish Novel of Suspense
  Author: Hughes, Declan
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060825515 Date: 2008
  LJ
  What's in a name? Apparently everything for Ed Loy, because that's the only information Father Vincent Tyrrell, brother of prominent racehorse trainer F. X. Tyrrell, offers when he asks for Ed's help in finding a missing person. Even the best private eye needs more than just a name, but hard times and a dwindling bank account make it difficult for Loy to say no. In The Price of Blood, Declan Hughes once again paints an arresting portrait of an Ireland not found in any guidebooks. Deadly passions beget dark secrets in a chilling story that will have readers on edge right up to its shocking conclusion. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Pinkerton's Secret
  Author: Lerner, Eric
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 9780805082784 Date: 2008
  Allan Pinkerton's story opens in Chicago on the eve of the American Civil War. After battling con men, train robbers, and gunmen, Pinkerton senses that change is inevitable. Kate Warne joins the Pinkerton Agency--its first female detective--and quickly takes her place as Allan's closest confidante.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• Calumet City
  Author: Newton, Charlie
  Publisher: Touchstone $ 14 ISBN: 9781416533221 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  Among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, Calumet City detonates a hardnosed cocktail of character-driven suspense and Chicago-ghetto intrigue.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 2.20.08
  
• The Cruelest Month: Three Pines
  Author: Penny, Louise
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312352578 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ PW
  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
  

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