Nonfiction

• Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
  by Carrerre, Emmanuel
  Publisher: Holt $ 22 ISBN: 0805065830
  Kirkus LJ
  Carrere presents the shocking, true story of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go. The Adversary--another name for the Devil in the Bible--is also a meditation on the mystery of identity, evil, and the desperate logic by which it is easier to kill than confess.
  
• Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present and Future
  by Epstein, Jason
  Publisher: Norton $ 21.95 ISBN: 0393049841
  PW Kirkus
  In this book based on his W.W. Norton Lectures given at the New York Public Library in October, 1999, Epstein discusses the severe crisis facing the book business today--a crisis that affects writers and readers as well as publishers--and looks ahead to the radically transformed industry that will revolutionize the idea of the book.
  
  
• Fast Food Nation
  by Schlosser, Eric
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 25 ISBN:0395977894
  PW Kirkus LJ
  To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.
  

Fiction

• The Hiding Place
  Author: Azzopardi, Trezza
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138158
  Kirkus Library Journal PW
  Set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff Wales, The Hiding Place is the story of Frankie Gauci, his wife Mary, their six daughters, and about Frankie's betrayal, gambling away his family's livelihood and eventually the family itself. A young British novelist bursts onto the international literary scene with this iridescent first novel.
  
• In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
  Author: Cambor, Kathleen
  Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 23 ISBN: 0374165378
  PW Kirkus
  This elegantly crafted love story is set against the backdrop of the greatest industrial disaster in American history: the construction and subsequent collapse in 1889 of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dam. It was a tragedy that cost 2,200 lives, implicated some of the most illustrious financiers of the day, and irreparably changed the lives of those who survived it.
  
• True History of the Kelly Gang
  Author: Carey, Peter
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0375410848
  PW Kirkus
  Speaking from the grave, out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people--Ned Kelly--a mythic outlaw whose life embodies tragedy, perseverance, and freedom. Executed more than a century ago, he resonates still as that country's most potent legend, now brought to life by the award-winning author of Oscar & Lucinda.
  The World of Ned Kelly and Ned Kelly Iron Outlaw.
  
• A Heart of Stone
  Author: Dorrestein, Renate
  Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 067089558x
  Kirkus PW Booklist
  Ellen Van Bemmel lives with her parents and three siblings in an Amsterdam suburb. Her idyllic childhood is suffused with Americana, such as Coca-Cola, potato chips, and the moon landing. But when disaster strikes on her 12th birthday, Ellen's world begins to unravel, and years later, she confronts the ghosts of her childhood.
  
• Gabriel's Story
  Author: Durham, David Anthony
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385498144
  PW Booklist
  In this literary debut, Durham recounts the adventures and trials of a black pioneer family in the late 1870s. At the center of the story is Gabriel, a young man who moves reluctantly from the urban North with his mother and younger brother to join his stepfather, a homesteader in Kansas. When he runs away to become a cowboy, his search for excitement brings trouble and danger.
  
• Sweethearts
  Author: Thon, Melanie Rae
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 23 ISBN: 0395785898
  Kirkus PW Booklist
  Set in the wild and beautiful plains and forests of Montana, Sweet Hearts recounts the searing story of a brother and sister haunted by their family's turmoil and half-forgotten Native American heritage. It is the story of 16-year-old Flint, who has already spent eight years in detention, and the one person he loves--his little sister, Cecile.
  
• Miss Garnet's Angel
  Author: Vickers, Sally
  Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 25 ISBN: 0786708239
  Kirkus PW
  Stories magically unfold within this novel's tale of Miss Julia Garnet, a schoolteacher who decides, after the death of her longtime friend Harriet, to take an apartment for six months in Venice. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the city and its magnificent art, Miss Garnet's English reserve begins to melt away. For the first time in her life she falls in love and her once ordinary world is further transformed.
  
  
• Crooked River Burning
  Author: Winegardner, Mark
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 27 ISBN: 0151002940
  PW Kirkus LJ
  A turbulent relationship between rich and poor counterpoints the epic story of a great Midwestern city drifting towards decline and the chaos of the 60s. This sweeping novel of a star-crossed romance is by the author of The Veracruz Blues.
  

Mystery and Suspense

• The 25th Hour
  Author: Benioff, David
  Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 24 ISBN: 0786707720
  PW
  Wall Street speculators, the Manhattan downtown club scene, Russian gangsters, immigrant neighborhoods; all the elements in the urban turf of this finely crafted contemporary crime novel wed danger with excitement and possibility. They're among the rewards lost by Monty Brogan on his last day "out" with his two friends before entering prison for seven years.
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• A Darkness More Than Night
  Author: Connelly, Michael
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316154075
  Kirkus PW
  Terrence McCaleb, the retired FBI agent featured in the bestselling Blood Work, is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specializes in solving, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the excitement of tracking down a homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile that McCaleb develops is someone he has known and worked with in the past: Detective Harry Bosch.
  
• Dead of Winter
  Author: Parrsh, P.J.
  Publisher: Pinnacle $ 6.99 (paper) ISBN: 0786011890
  In the quaint town of Loon Lake, Michigan, a killer is taking his vengeance. One by one, the bodies are found, brutally executed with coded death cards beside each corpse -- the signature of a psychopath. Detective Louis Kincaid had come north looking for refuge to forget the horrors of his past. But now he's landed in the middle of an investigation that's more than a mystery.
  
• Declare
  Author: Powers, Tim
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0380976528
  Kirkus
  A coded message draws Professor Andrew Hale back into Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1963. Elements from his past are gathering in Beirut, rushing toward a deadly confrontation on Mt. Ararat, where a covert Soviet expedition is closing in on the biblical Ark.
  
• Temple
  Author: Reilly, Matt
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312266596
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  This sensational new action/adventure blockbuster is by the bestselling author of Ice Station. When the U.S. Army beaks through the doors of an Incan temple to remove an idol carved out of a strange stone--a stone that could be used in a terrifying new weapon--they discover they have broken a golden rule. Some doors are meant to be unopened.
  
• On Night's Shore
  Author: Silvis, Randall
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312262019
  Booklist
  Edgar Allan Poe investigates the mysterious death of a New York City shop girl in the summer of 1840.
  

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