Featured Titles

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 2007

Nonfiction

• Love is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, And What I Listened To
  Author: Sheffield, Rob
  Publisher: Crown $ 22.95 ISBN: 9781400083022 Date: 2007
  KirkusPWLJ
  Sheffield relates the two important love affairs of his life, the first with music and the fine art of the perfect mix tape, and the second with a woman who changes him forever.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Memoirs | Musical Nonfiction
  Updated 12.29.06

Fiction

• Arlington Park
  Author: Cusk, Rachel
  Publisher: Faber & Faber $ 23 ISBN: 9780374100803 Date: 2007
  PWLJ
  Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Darkly comic, deeply affecting, and wise, Arlington Park is a page-turning imagining of the extraordinary inner nature of ordinary life, by one of Britain's most exciting young novelists. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 11.1.06
• White Blood
  Author: Fleming, James
  Publisher: Atria $ 25 ISBN: 9780743299381 Date: 2007
  PW
  An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution. Beautifully written, richly imagined, by turns savage and tender, this exhilarating novel confirms James Fleming as one of the very best novelists at work today. - Publisher Marketing
  Suggested Reading: Family Matters
  Updated 10.16.06
• Fangland
  Author: Marks, John
  Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594201172 Date: 2007
  PWLJ
  An acclaimed novelist and former producer for CBS's "60 Minutes" reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy journals, and other artifacts of early 21st-century American professional-class life, this vampire novel is a biting commentary on the way we live and work now.
  Updated 12.28.06
• The Terror
  Author: Simmons, Dan
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780316017442 Date: 2007
  KirkusPWLJ
  Based on the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during the Sir John Franklin Expedition in 1845.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Arctic Stars
  Updated 11.16.06

Crime Fiction

• Wild Indigo: A Jamaica Wild Novel
  Author: Ault, Sandi
  Publisher: Berkley $23.95 ISBN: 9780425213698 Date: 2007
  PWLJ
  In this debut mystery, Jamaica Wild, an agent with the Bureau of Land Management, witnesses a Tanoah man being trampled to death by stampeding buffalo. Was it an accident? Suicide? Foul play?
  Suggested Reading:Debuts | Wild Life Updated 12.28.06
• Trouble
  Author: Kellerman, Jesse
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399154034 Date: 2007
  KirkusKirkus
  Following up his critically acclaimed debut Sunstroke, Kellerman pens a brilliant new thriller--twisted, sexy, and unrelentingly gripping.
  Suggested Reading: Family Matters
  Updated 11.27.06
• Silent in the Grave
  Author: Raybourn, Deanna
  Publisher: Mira $ 21.95 ISBN: 9780778324102 Date: 2007
  PWKirkus
  When her husband dies under suspicious circumstances, Lady Julia Grey investigates and discovers "disturbing truths about a husband she never truly knew and a world of deception, disease and sexual obsession she could never have imagined" ("Publishers Weekly").
  Updated 11.27.06
• The Blade Itself
  Author: Sakey, Marcus
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780312360313 Date: 2007
  LJPW
  In an explosive debut thriller reminiscent of the best of Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben, a young Chicago professional learns that the more he has, the more he has to lose. "Taut, involving, and memorable, Marcus Sakey is an authentic, original new voice in crime fiction."--George Pelecanos.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | Hard-Boiled Stars
  Updated 10.18.06