Arlington Park
by
Rachel Cusk
Gallup Press, 01/01/2007
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. ...
more
Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents
by
Janusz Korczak & Sandra Joseph
Algonquin Books, 01/01/2007
Born in Poland in 1878, educator, physician, and legendary child advocate Janusz Korczak believed that simply understanding children is the key to ...
more
The Associates: How Four Capitalists Created California
by
Richard Rayner
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2007
One hundred forty years ago, four men rose from their position as middle-class merchants in Sacramento, California, to become the force behind the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage
by
Laura C. Schlessinger
Gallup Press, 01/01/2007
In the follow up to
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura now focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the ...
more
Advice
Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
by
Christina Katz
Writers Digest Books, 01/01/2007
Kids change your life, but they don't necessarily have to end your career. Stay-at-home moms will love this handy guide to rearing a successful ...
more
Advice
Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers
by
Naomi Judd
Gallup Press, 01/02/2007
Freedom is the focus, and there's no better time than now to free yourself from untrue and outdated ideas about your own potential. Naomi is full of ...
more
Advice
Sliver of Truth
by
Lisa Unger
Gallup Press, 01/02/2007
Recently, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she...
more
Mysteries
The Great Physician's Rx for Women's Health
by
Jordan Rubin, Nicki Rubin
Thomas Nelson, 01/02/2007
Jordan Rubin, along with his wife Nicki and Dr. Panchetta Wilson, give the 7 Keys to Health and wellness, customized to the unique needs of women.
Advice
The Hunters
by
W.E.B. Griffin
Gallup Press, 01/02/2007
The Hunters picks up right where
The Hostage left off. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal ...
more
Thrillers
The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, but Could Have, and May Yet
by
Jill Conner Browne & Karin Gillespie
Gallup Press, 01/02/2007
"I have no pride. I tell anything", Jill Conner Browne is fond of saying. As Her Royal Highness, Boss Queen of the Sweet Potato Queens, she has told ...
more
Literary Fiction
When Darkness Falls
by
James Grippando
Gallup Press, 01/02/2007
Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck isn't looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless and in jail for threatening to jump off ...
more
Thrillers
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place
by
David H. Freedman
Little Brown & Company, 01/03/2007
A groundbreaking book that sheds new light on ideas of order--and shows how chaos, disorder, and mess make our world a better place!
Like
...more
Advice
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by
Daniel Tammet
Free Press, 01/09/2007
Born on a Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as ...
more
Biography/Memoir
City of Glory: A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan
by
Beverly Swerling
Gallup Press, 01/09/2007
Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's second war for independence, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-...
more
Historical Fiction
Exile
by
Richard North Patterson
Gallup Press, 01/09/2007
From one of America's most compelling novelists comes the mesmerizing story of a lawyer who must defend the woman he loves against a charge of ...
more
Thrillers
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
by
Mark Harris
Scribner, 01/09/2007
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of
Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by
Harriet A. Washington
Doubleday, 01/09/2007
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Off Armageddon Reef
by
David Weber
Gallup Press, 01/09/2007
Here is the saga of humanity, reduced by an implacable alien enemy to a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. To avoid broadcasting to the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Plum Lovin'
by
Janet Evanovich
Gallup Press, 01/09/2007
It's a new year for Stephanie, Lula and the gang--and Connie Rosolli has a secret admirer. Or does she? Connie is getting two kinds of anonymous mail:...
more
Mysteries
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by
Robert Stone
Gallup Press, 01/09/2007
From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California,
Prime Green ...
more
Biography/Memoir
These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
by
Pamela Aidan
Touchstone, 01/09/2007
Set vividly against the colourful historical and political background of the Regency period, Pamela Aidan writes in a style comfortably at home with ...
more
Web of Evil: A Novel of Suspense
by
J.A. Jance
Gallup Press, 01/09/2007
The highway from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is parched, unforgiving, and deadly. In the suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a man -- his...
more
Thrillers
Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction
by
Jake Halpern
Gallup Press, 01/10/2007
For the past few years, Jake Halpern has reported on fame for NPR's
All Things Considered. This book chronicles his journey through the underbelly of ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On The Wealth of Nations
by
P. J. O'Rourke
Gallup Press, 01/10/2007
As one of the first titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' "Books That Changed the World" series, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, ...
more
Other
Fangland
by
John Marks
Gallup Press, 01/11/2007
In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television news ...
more
Thrillers
Skylight Confessions
by
Alice Hoffman
Gallup Press, 01/11/2007
A stunning new novel about three generations of a family haunted by love ... a family so real, so tragic, so devoted it is as if they have written ...
more
Bad Blood: An Alexandra Cooper Mysteries
by
Linda Fairstein
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
Bad Blood finds Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper deeply involved in a complicated, high-profile homicide case. Defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent ...
more
Thrillers
Breakpoint
by
Richard A. Clarke
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
Against All Enemies warned about how we were conducting the war against terror.
The Scorpion's Gate demonstrated what could happen. And now America's ...
more
Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
by
Martha Grimes
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
Scotland Yard Supt. Richard Jury is dragged into his 22nd case by the first of many children wise and meddlesome beyond their years.
Mysteries
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
by
Jacqueline L. Tobin, Hettie Jones
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. In prose rich in detail and imagery,
From Midnight ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Suspect
by
John T. Lescroart
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart ...
more
Thrillers
The Successor
by
Stephen Frey
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day’s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York’...
more
Thrillers
You Suck: A Love Story
by
Christopher Moore
Gallup Press, 01/16/2007
Being dead sucks. Make that being undead sucks.
Literally. Just ask Thomas C. Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever ...
more
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
by
Rafe Esquith
Gallup Press, 01/18/2007
In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth graders inside are ...
more
Traveler
by
Ron McLarty
Gallup Press, 01/18/2007
Jono Riley is an aging part-time actor and bartender trying to make ends meet in Manhattan when he receives a letter from a childhood friend telling ...
more
Literary Fiction
Trouble
by
Jesse Kellerman
Gallup Press, 01/18/2007
Young, idealistic, and overworked, Jonah is living the lonely life of a medical student in New York City when he accidentally stumbles across a murder...
more
At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
by
Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/23/2007
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, ...
more
Cupcake
by
Rachel Cohn
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/23/2007
When Cyd Charisse moves from San Francisco to start a new life in New York City, she leaves behind her family -- and her true love, Shrimp. She wants...
more
Fruit of the Lemon: A Novel
by
Andrea Levy
Picador, 01/23/2007
Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC ...
more
Hurricane Punch: A Novel
by
Tim Dorsey
William Morrow, 01/23/2007
Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms. Serge storms.
His cherished home state is about to take a beating, and from...
more
Lords of the North: The Saxon Stories Series
by
Bernard Cornwell
Gallup Press, 01/23/2007
The year is 878, and as
Lords of the North begins, the Saxons of Wessex, under King Alfred, have defeated the Danes to keep their kingdom free. Uhtred...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Matters of Honor
by
Louis Begley
Gallup Press, 01/23/2007
An unforgettable portrait of friendship and a meditation on loyalty and honor, set in Harvard in the 1950s.
The Castle In The Forest
by
Norman Mailer
Gallup Press, 01/23/2007
The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler's father and...
more
Travels in the Scriptorium
by
Paul Auster
Gallup Press, 01/23/2007
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Deep Storm
by
Lincoln Child
Gallup Press, 01/30/2007
Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . .
scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the ...
more
Thrillers
Hide
by
Lisa Gardner
Bantam Books, 01/30/2007
You have good reason to be afraid. . . .
It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life ...
more
Lost City Radio
by
Daniel Alarcon
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/30/2007
For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their ...
more
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
by
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
Simon & Schuster, 01/30/2007
From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African-Americans all over the country. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Send Me: A Novel
by
Patrick Ryan
Random House, 01/30/2007
In the Florida of NASA launches, ranch houses, and sudden hurricanes, Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to hold her life together. ...
more
Short Stories
Star Wars Allegiance
by
Timothy Zahn
Gallup Press, 01/30/2007
The dean of Star Wars fiction returns with this exploration of events between
A New Hope and
The Empire Strikes Back.
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Surveillance: A Novel
by
Jonathan Raban
Pantheon Books, 01/30/2007
In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The government’...
more
The Alexandria Link: A Novel
by
Steve Berry
Ballantine Books, 01/30/2007
Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. State Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But ...
more
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
by
Milan Kundera
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/30/2007
In this entertaining and always stimulating essay, Kundera cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western ...
more
Blade of Fire: The Icemark Chronicles
by
Stuart Hill
The Chicken House, 02/01/2007
Many years have passed since Queen Thirrin and her allies defended the Icemark against a brutal invasion. But now General Bellorum is back, along with...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Knots
by
Nuruddin Farah
Riverhead Books, 02/01/2007
A strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America, Cambara returns to Mogadiscio to escape a failed marriage and an...
more
Why Can't We Be Good?: An Inquiry
by
Jacob Needleman
Jeremy P Tarcher, 02/01/2007
The widely respected social philosopher embarks on his most gripping and broadly appealing work, asking the ultimate question of human nature: Why do ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life
by
Allen Shawn
Viking, 02/01/2007
Allen Shawn is afraid of heights, water, fields, parking lots, tunnels, and unknown roads. He avoids taking subways, using elevators, or crossing ...
more
At the Center of the Storm
by
George Tenet
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/06/2007
In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that has attended the post-9/11 world, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Tree
by
Barbara Delinsky
Doubleday, 02/06/2007
Dana Clarke has always longed for the stability of home and family—her own childhood was not an easy one. Now she has married a man she adores ...
more
Hell Hath No Curry: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery
by
Tamar Myers
NAL, 02/06/2007
Three days before he's due to tie the knot with Priscilla Livengood, eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a massive heart attack - in another ...
more
High Profile
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/06/2007
When the body of controversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone ...
more
Napoleon's Pyramids
by
William Dietrich
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/06/2007
William Dietrich's books have been hailed for their vivid imagery, evocative atmospheres, impeccable historical accuracy, and ambitious plots. Now, in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Natural Born Charmer
by
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
William Morrow, 02/06/2007
Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable ...
more
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
by
Chalmers Johnson
Metropolitan Books, 02/06/2007
In his prophetic book
Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In
The Sorrows of Empire, he...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
by
John Patrick Diggins
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/06/2007
Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized thanks to liberal biases that dominate the teaching of American history, says John...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Step on a Crack
by
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Little Brown & Company, 02/06/2007
Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career. The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected ...
more
Strangled
by
Brian McGrory
Atria Books, 02/06/2007
Deadly and deep-seated political conspiracies are nothing new to Jack Flynn, the popular lead reporter of the Boston Record. But in
Strangled, he ...
more
The Story of the Cannibal Woman: A Novel
by
Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox (Translator)
Atria Books, 02/06/2007
One dark night in Cape Town, Rosélie's husband goes out for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back. Not only is she left with unanswered ...
more
Water Like a Stone: A Novel (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels)
by
Deborah Crombie
William Morrow, 02/06/2007
When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced ...
more
Looks to Die For
by
Janice Kaplan
Touchstone, 02/13/2007
As the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous decorator to the stars, Lacy Fields ...
more
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
by
Margaret MacMillan
Random House, 02/13/2007
With the publication of her landmark bestseller
Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life”...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Past Perfect: A Novel
by
Susan Isaacs
Scribner, 02/13/2007
In
Past Perfect, Susan Isaacs gives us one of her most glorious characters ever: bright, buoyant, and borderline luscious Katie Schottland. Katie ...
more
The Double Bind: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Shaye Areheart Books, 02/13/2007
When a homeless man dies at the shelter where Laurel works, leaving behind a hoard of photographs substantiating his claim that he knew jazz and blues...
more
Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both.
by
Laura Sessions Stepp
Riverhead Books, 02/15/2007
In
Unhooked, Stepp follows three groups of young women (one in high school, one each at Duke and George Washington universities). She sat with them in...
more
Advice
Finn
by
Jon Clinch
Random House, 02/20/2007
Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
by
Joe Conason
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/20/2007
For the first time since the Nixon era, Americans have reason to doubt the future---or even the presence---of democracy. We live in a society where ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can Too!
by
Kim Lavine
St. Martin's Press, 02/20/2007
Real-world advice, secrets and lessons on how to make a million dollars from a mom who turned her kitchen table idea into a successful business while ...
more
Poor People
by
William Vollman
Ecco, 02/20/2007
because i was bad in my last life.
because allah has willed it.
because the rich do nothing for the poor.
because the poor do nothing for...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
by
Stephen Flynn
Random House, 02/20/2007
Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster?
Where are we most vulnerable?
How have we allowed our government to ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Fifth Vial
by
Michael Palmer
St. Martin's Press, 02/20/2007
In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career. . . . Four thousand miles away, in a jungle ...
more
The Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century
by
Tracy Wilkinson
Grand Central Publishing, 02/21/2007
John Paul II was the first pope since the early 1600s to view the devil and his minions not only as formidable foes, but as tangible, present forces ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Death of a Maid: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
by
M. C. Beaton
Mysterious Press, 02/22/2007
Mrs. Gillespie is famous for being the best maid in the northwest of Sutherland. But to Hamish Macbeth, she is a malicious gossip who bangs around the...
more
Capitol Threat: A Novel
by
William Bernhardt
Ballantine Books, 02/27/2007
Ben Kincaid is now a U.S. senator, but he barely has time to settle into his office before he has another murder to solve.
Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
by
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 02/27/2007
Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Key Lime Pie Murder: Hannah Swensen Mysteries
by
Joanne Fluke
Kensington, 02/27/2007
When one of her fellow judges at the Tri-County Fair is murdered, Hannah determines to sniff out the killer.
Now You See Her
by
Jacquelyn Mitchard
HarperTeen, 02/27/2007
Hope has it all: brains, beauty, and acceptance at Starwood, a prestigious arts prep school. A mere sophomore, she has won the lead in
Romeo and ...more
Puss 'n Cahoots: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by
Rita Mae Brown
Bantam Books, 02/27/2007
Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeen leave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the...
more
Shopaholic & Baby
by
Sophie Kinsella
Dial Books, 02/27/2007
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is pregnant! She couldn’t be more overjoyed – especially since discovering that shopping cures morning ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Storm Runners
by
T Jefferson Parker
William Morrow, 02/27/2007
Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion meant for him. Wounded severely in both body and spirit, Stromsoe...
more
The Accidental Florist:: A Jane Jeffry Mystery
by
Jill Churchill
William Morrow, 02/27/2007
Jane Jeffry and longtime beau Detective Mel VanDyne finally decide to marry, but during what should have been a blissful interval between the ...
more
The Warrior Heir: The Heir Chronicles #1
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Hyperion Books for Children, 02/27/2007
Before he knew about the Roses, 16-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Watchman: Joke Pike Series #1
by
Robert Crais
Simon & Schuster, 02/27/2007
When the U. S. Marshals and the finest private security firm that money can buy can't protect Larkin Conner Barkley from the men who want her dead, ...
more
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
by
Suze Orman
Spiegel & Grau, 02/27/2007
Why is it that women, who are so competent in all other areas of their lives, cannot find the same competence when it comes to matters of money? Suze...
more
Advice
Pig Island
by
Mo Hayder
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/28/2007
A riveting, disturbing thriller of religious fanatics, hoax debunkers, and the dark side of belief. Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing ...
more
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit
by
Kerry Max Cook
William Morrow, 03/01/2007
the riveting chronicle of how a small town murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history—and sent the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show: James A. Michener Fiction Series
by
Richard Wiley
University of Texas Press, 03/01/2007
The long-awaited prequel--more than a decade in the making--to Richard Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel,
Soldiers in Hiding. A sword-swinging ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Death Comes for the Fat Man: Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries
by
Reginald Hill
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/01/2007
Caught in the full blast of a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel lies on a hospital bed, with only a life support system and his ...
more
Emma Jean Lazarus Fell out of a Tree
by
Lauren Tarshis, illustrated by Kristin Smith
Dial Books, 03/01/2007
Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logicto solve the “messy” everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. It&#...
more
Nerve Damage
by
Peter Abrahams
William Morrow, 03/01/2007
Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams . . . at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a ...
more
On The Wings of Heroes
by
Richard Peck
Dial Books, 03/01/2007
World War II has invaded Davy’s homefront boyhood. There’s an air raid drill in the classroom, and being a kid is an endless scrap drive. ...
more
Soul Eater: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #3
by
Michelle Paver
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/01/2007
It's winter, and Wolf, Torak's beloved pack-brother, has been captured by an unknown foe. In a desperate bid to rescue him, Torak and Renn must brave ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team
by
Michael Weinreb
Gotham Books, 03/01/2007
With strict admission standards and a progressive curriculum, Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York’s public...
more
Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
by
Sabine Kuegler
Grand Central Publishing, 03/02/2007
Sabine Kuegler's childhood was far from typical. The child of German linguists and missionaries, she spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in ...
more
A Far Country
by
Daniel Mason
Knopf, 03/06/2007
Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen-year-old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of "seeing farther." When ...
more
Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul
by
Caroline Myss
Free Press, 03/06/2007
Internationally renowned motivational teacher, spiritual instructor, and popular theologian Caroline Myss has created a transcendent work of unique ...
more
In Dublin's Fair City
by
Rhys Bowen
Minotaur Books, 03/06/2007
Molly Murphy’s beau Captain Daniel Sullivan may be out of jail on bail, but he’s still a ways from clearing his name, and his foul mood has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mississippi Sissy
by
Kevin Sessums
St. Martin's Press, 03/06/2007
Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, ...
more
My French Whore
by
Gene Wilder
St. Martin's Press, 03/06/2007
The beloved actor and screenwriter’s first novel, set during World War I, delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. It’s ...
more
Priest
by
Ken Bruen
Minotaur Books, 03/06/2007
Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional...
more
Reaching for Sun
by
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Bantam Books, 03/06/2007
Josie Wyatt knows what it means to be different. Her family's small farmhouse seems to shrink each time another mansion grows up behind it. She lives ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Reading Judas: Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
by
Elaine Pagels & Karen King
Viking, 03/06/2007
When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately...
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Other
Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
by
Steven Saylor
St. Martin's Press, 03/06/2007
Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shadowplay: Shadowmarch Volume II
by
Tad Williams
DAW Books, 03/06/2007
Just a year ago, all seemed well in the March Kingdoms: Peace reigned in the land; the Eddon family ruled securely; and court and commoners alike were...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sugar Daddy
by
Lisa Kleypas
St. Martin's Press, 03/06/2007
Liberty Jones is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks in Welcome, Texas. But Liberty has dreams and determination that will take her far - if she ...
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The Bloomsday Dead
by
Adrian McKinty
Scribner, 03/06/2007
In the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy, tough guy Michael Forsythe -- bad-boy antihero of the critically acclaimed
Dead I Well May Be and
...more
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by
David Damrosch
Henry Holt and Company, 03/06/2007
Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic--lost to the world for 2,000 years, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War
by
Dan Gilgoff
St. Martin's Press, 03/06/2007
A provocative yet balanced look at James Dobson and Focus on the Family: the untold story of the most powerful religious and political force in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vinnie's Head
by
Marc Lecard
Minotaur Books, 03/06/2007
From the twisted mind of first-timer Marc Lecard comes a darkly comic and sensational new crime masterpiece, which is quickly drawing comparisons to ...
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When the Light Goes
by
Larry McMurty
Simon & Schuster, 03/06/2007
Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all ...
more
Whitehorn Woods
by
Maeve Binchy
Knopf, 03/06/2007
When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town...
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
by
Trenton Lee Stewart, illustrated by Carson Ellis
Little Brown & Company, 03/07/2007
Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with...
more
Weekend with Warren Buffett: And Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures
by
Randy Cepuch
Thunder's Mouth Press, 03/10/2007
Every spring, Randy Cepuch spends a weekend wtih Warren Buffett. Mr. Buffett shares what he thinks of the world these days, provides an annual dose of...
more
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistance of the Product That Defined America
by
llan M. Brandt
Basic Books, 03/12/2007
The industrial manufacture of cigarettes began in the late nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the invention of the modern consumer, advertising ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cold Day in Hell
by
Richard Hawke
Random House, 03/13/2007
When two women linked with charismatic late-night TV personality Marshall Fox are found brutally slain in Central Park, Fox becomes the prime suspect ...
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Daddy's Girl
by
Lisa Scottoline
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/13/2007
Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class and secretly feels like Faculty ...
more
What the Dead Know
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 03/13/2007
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been ...
more
You Don't Love Me Yet
by
Jonathan Lethem
Doubleday, 03/13/2007
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work ...
more
My Father's Secret War: A Memoir
by
Lucinda Franks
Miramax, 03/14/2007
In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the ...
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Poison Pen
by
Sheila Lowe
Capital Crime Press, 03/15/2007
Forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose uses her wide range of experience when her old friend-turned-enemy, Lindsey Alexander, is found dead in her ...
more
Rat Run
by
Gerald Seymour
Overlook, 03/15/2007
All traces of self-esteem have been brutally stripped from Malachy Kitchen, an Intelligence officer posted to Iraq. He is accused of cowardice while ...
more
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by
Claire Nouvian
University Of Chicago Press, 03/15/2007
Combining the latest scientific discoveries with astonishing color imagery,
The Deep takes readers on a voyage into the darkest realms of the ocean. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies-and How You Can, Too
by
Cate Colburn-Smith
TarcherPerigee, 03/15/2007
It all began when IBM manager Cate Colburn-Smith sat down in the company's employee lactation room, shed a few silent tears, and wrote the following ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Spellman Files
by
Lisa Lutz
Simon & Schuster, 03/17/2007
Part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry, Izzy walks an indistinguishable line between Spellman family member and Spellman employee. Duties include: ...
more
Canaan: A Novel of the Reunited States after the War
by
Donald McCaig
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/19/2007
This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Burning Bright
by
Tracy Chevalier
Dutton, 03/20/2007
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rebels
by
Sandor Marai, translated by George Szirtes
Knopf, 03/20/2007
It is the summer of 1918. As graduation approaches at a boys’ academy in provincial Hungary, the senior class finds itself in a ghost town. ...
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Twisted
by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Viking, 03/20/2007
High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, ...
more
Certainty
by
Madeleine Thien
Little Brown & Company, 03/21/2007
Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in present-day Vancouver, finds herself haunted by events in her parents' past in war-torn Asia, a past ...
more
Hunter's Moon
by
Randy Wayne White
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/22/2007
When Ford saves a controversial former president of the United States from assassination he has no idea what he's just let himself in for. J. C. ...
more
Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery
by
C. J. Sansom
Viking, 03/22/2007
Autumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Gentle Axe: A Novel
by
R. N. Morris
Penguin Press, 03/22/2007
Porfiry Petrovich, the police investigator who worked on the case involving the deranged student Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's
Crime and Punishment, is ...
more
Companions of Paradise: A Riveting Novel of Victorian England and Afganistan
by
Thalassa Ali
Bantam Books, 03/27/2007
Mariana Givens aches to return to the rose-scented city of Lahore, home of Hassan Ali Khan, the Muslim stranger she has come to love, his mystical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dark Room
by
Andrea Kane
William Morrow, 03/27/2007
Seventeen years ago, Morgan Winter was traumatized by the discovery of her parents' brutally murdered bodies in a Brooklyn basement on Christmas Eve. ...
more
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
by
David Sloan Wilson
Delacorte Press, 03/27/2007
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Flawless: Pretty Little Liars #2
by
Sara Shepard
HarperTeen, 03/27/2007
In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liars—Spencer, Aria, ...
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Literary Fiction
Physik: Septimus Heap, Book 3
by
Angie Sage
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/27/2007
When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Alibi Man
by
Tami Hoag
Bantam Books, 03/27/2007
Finding her friend's killer will put Elena at odds with her old life, with her new lover, and with herself. But she is determined to reveal the truth ...
more
The Alpine Scandal: An Emma Lord Mystery
by
Mary Daheim
Ballantine Books, 03/27/2007
Welcome to mystery lovers’ favorite destination: Alpine, Washington, Mary Daheim’s picturesque old logging town in the foothills of the ...
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Mysteries
The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One
by
Patrick Rothfuss
DAW Books, 03/27/2007
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Secret Magdalene
by
Ki Longfellow
Crown, 03/27/2007
Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning - a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Year of Fog
by
Michelle Richmond
Delacorte Press, 03/27/2007
Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée soon-to-be-stepmother—looks into her...
more
Troy: Shield of Thunder
by
David Gemmell
Ballantine Books, 03/27/2007
The second exciting volume in the bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, adventure and love, this is epic storytelling at its best.
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents
by
Jane Isay
Flying Dolphin Press, 03/27/2007
We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for...
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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
by
Hugh Brogan
Yale University Press, 03/28/2007
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign ...
more
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
by
Riane Eisler
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 03/28/2007
In this powerful book, eminent social scientist Riane Eisler shows that the great problems of our time — such as poverty, inequality, war, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
bang Bang
by
Lynn Hoffman
Kunati Incorporated, 04/01/2007
Paula Sherman embarks upon a one-woman quest to change America, ultimately becoming national hero and villain, enforcer and outlaw, lover and leader, ...
more
Chestnut Soldier: Magician Trilogy Book Three
by
Jenny Nimmo
Orchard Books, 04/01/2007
Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken toy horse that holds the evil spirit of a prince who...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by
Jeff Kinney
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 04/01/2007
Boys don’t keep diaries—or do they? The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Johnny and the Bomb: Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 3.
by
Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/01/2007
Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lone Creek
by
Neil McMahon
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/01/2007
After a failed career and marriage in California, Hugh Davoren is back in Helena, Montana, as a construction hand at the old Pettyjohn Ranch, home of ...
more
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
by
Nick Drake
Harper, 04/01/2007
She is Nefertiti - beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Set Sail for Murder: A Henrie O Mystery
by
Carolyn Hart
William Morrow, 04/01/2007
When retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, receives a call for help, she discovers that love once kindled ...
more
The Perfect Man
by
Naeem Murr
Random House, 04/01/2007
Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr’s captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s ...
more
What Makes Women Happy
by
Fay Weldon
Chicago Review Press, 04/01/2007
With inimitable wit and insight, this encouraging tome humorously leaps into what makes women happy and what women can do to lead more rounded and ...
more
Depths: A Novel
by
Henning Mankell
New Press, 04/02/2007
It is October 1914, and Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm ...
more
The Naming of the Dead: Inspector John Rebus Series
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 04/02/2007
The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except...
more
American Detective: An Amos Walker Novel
by
Loren D. Estleman
Forge Books, 04/03/2007
Hardboiled detective Amos Walker returns for his nineteenth outing in his most challenging case yet. Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants...
more
Angelica
by
Arthur Phillips
Random House, 04/03/2007
The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke one another, ...
more
Atherton #1: The House of Power
by
Patrick Carman
Little Brown & Company, 04/03/2007
From the creator of the
Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world created as a refuge from a dying Earth that ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ghost Ship
by
Mary Higgins Clark, illus. Wendell Minor
Paula Wiseman Books, 04/03/2007
Thomas loved his summer visits to his grandmother's on Cape Cod. He spent hours wondering about the sailing ships of the past and imagining their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Heartstopper: A Novel
by
Joy Fielding
Atria Books, 04/03/2007
Welcome to Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators to date in his tiny hamlet were the ...
more
I Heard That Song Before: A Novel
by
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, 04/03/2007
In a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most ...
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Mysteries
It's Kind of a Funny Story
by
Ned Vizzini
Miramax, 04/03/2007
At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his ...
more
Kalooki Nights: A Novel
by
Howard Jacobson
Simon & Schuster, 04/03/2007
Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled
Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British ...
more
Laced: A Regan Reilly Mystery
by
Carol Higgins Clark
Scribner, 04/03/2007
A haunted castle, a pair of international jewel thieves, and a hotel fire -- so begins Regan and Jack Reilly's honeymoon in Ireland . . .
Filled ...
more
Mysteries
Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'
by
Paula Deen
Simon & Schuster, 04/03/2007
Courageously honest, downright inspiring, and just a little bit saucy, Paula shares the highs and lows of her life in the inimitable charming and ...
more
Rollback
by
Robert J. Sawyer
Tor Books, 04/03/2007
Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spindrift
by
Allen Steele
Ace Books, 04/03/2007
June 1, 2288 - Europe's first starship, the EASS Galileo, launches on its maiden voyage to investigate an unidentified object, code-named Spindrift, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bad Quarto: An Imogen Quy Mystery
by
Jill Paton Walsh
Minotaur Books, 04/03/2007
Imogen Quy, college nurse at St. Agathas College, Cambridge University is inquisitive by nature. So her interest is piqued when a research fellow ...
more
The Canyon of Bones: A Barnaby Skye Novel
by
Richard S. Wheeler
Forge Books, 04/03/2007
With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?
by
Leslie Bennetts
Voice, 04/03/2007
Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for ...
more
The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
by
Peter Green
Modern Library, 04/03/2007
The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, from the days of Philip and Alexander of Macedon to the death of Cleopatra and the final ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
by
Michael S. Malone
Portfolio, 04/05/2007
This is the most authoritative version ever of the most famous start-up story in business history. In 1938, working out of a small garage in Palo Alto...
more
Biography/Memoir
God's Spy: A Novel
by
Juan Gomez-Jurado
Dutton, 04/05/2007
In the days following the Pope’s death, a cardinal is found brutally murdered in a chapel in Rome, his eyes gouged and his hands cut off. Called ...
more
Miss Julia Strikes Back
by
Ann B. Ross
Viking, 04/05/2007
It’s lonely and boring in Miss Julia’s normally boisterous town, what with husband Sam off on a long-planned tour of Russia and Hazel Marie ...
more
The Mistress's Daughter
by
A. M. Homes
Viking, 04/05/2007
Before A.M. Homes was born, she was put up for adoption. Her birth mother was a twenty-two- year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much...
more
The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive Through Adolescence
by
SuEllen Hamkins, Renee Schultz
Hudson Street Press, 04/05/2007
There is no comment more troubling to the mother of a young girl than “she loves you now, but just wait ’til she’s a teenager.” ...
more
The Sun Over Breda
by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/05/2007
In
The Sun over Breda, Pérez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hire, as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
by
Al Gore
Viking, 04/10/2007
Former Vice President Al Gore's New York Times #1 bestselling book is a daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Become Who You Were Born to Be: We All Have a Gift. . . . Have You Discovered Yours?
by
Brian Souza
Harmony Books, 04/10/2007
Do you ever feel burned out, beat up, or just plain bored, wondering, “Is this all there is?” Do you ever feel trapped in a stressful job ...
more
Advice
Coal Black Horse
by
Robert Olmstead
Algonquin Books, 04/10/2007
When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable. She instructs her only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Edith Wharton
by
Hermione Lee
Knopf, 04/10/2007
The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Delving into ...
more
Fresh Disasters: A Stone Barrington Novel
by
Stuart Woods
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/10/2007
Stone Barrington embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when he takes on a job as a lawyer for a sleazy and clueless con man - and ends up ...
more
From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live by
by
Robin Roberts
Hyperion, 04/10/2007
While most people will say that the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts ...
more
Advice
Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed
by
Paul Trynka
Broadway Books, 04/10/2007
Paul Trynka, former editor of Mojo magazine, has spent much time with Iggy’s childhood friends, lovers, and fellow musicians, gaining a profound ...
more
Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by
Jennifer Chiaverini
Simon & Schuster, 04/10/2007
Newly wed in a festive yet poignant ceremony at Elm Creek Manor, bride Elizabeth Nelson takes leave of her ancestral Pennsylvania home. Setting off ...
more
The Secret River: A Novel
by
Kate Grenville
Canongate Books, 04/10/2007
The Orange Prize–winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wizardology Handbook: A Course for Apprentices
by
Master Merlin, Dugald Steer
Candlewick Press, 04/10/2007
Calling all aspiring wizards! Do you know the appropriate tools (including flattery) to have on hand should you encounter a Western wizard? Have you ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Shall Not Sleep: A Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 04/10/2007
In
We Shall Not Sleep, the series' final volume, the guns finally fall silent in November 1918 as the war draws to an end. Finally, the Reavley ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Vol. 2
by
Saul Friedlander
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/10/2007
The extermination of the Jews of Europe triggers disbelief. This volume presents a thorough historical study of the events while attempting to keep ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi
by
Primo Levi
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/11/2007
A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of ...
more
Body of Lies: A Novel
by
David Ignatius
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/16/2007
Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission—to ...
more
Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936
by
David Clay Large
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/16/2007
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Accidental American: A Novel
by
Alex Carr
Random House, 04/17/2007
Nicole Blake had planned to leave her criminal life in the past. She had done her time in a dank prison in Marseille and relinquished the world of ...
more
Love and War in California: A Novel
by
Oakley Hall
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/17/2007
Love and War in California tells the story, through the eyes of Payton Daltrey, of the last sixty years of an evolving America.
The award-winning ...
more
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive: The New Novel in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
by
Alexander Mccall Smith
Pantheon Books, 04/17/2007
In the life of Mma Ramotswe – a woman duly proud of her fine traditional build – there is rarely a dull moment, and in her newest round of ...
more
The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe
by
Mayer Hillman, Tina Fawcett, Sudhir Chella Rajan
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/17/2007
Climate change is the single biggest problem that humankind has ever had to face, as we continue with lifestyles that are way beyond the planet's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Woods
by
Harlan Coben
Dutton, 04/17/2007
Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four ...
more
White Walls: Collected Stories
by
Tatyana Tolstaya
New York Review of Books, 04/17/2007
The wonderful verve, unflagging verbal invention, and wicked charm that Tatyana Tolstaya brings to the short story have earned her a devoted audience ...
more
John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography
by
John Stubbs
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/23/2007
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating...
more
The Custodian of Paradise: A Novel
by
Wayne Johnston
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/23/2007
In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to an island off the coast of Newfoundland, deserted except for some horses and a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Body Surfing: A Novel
by
Anita Shreve
Little Brown & Company, 04/24/2007
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and
once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor ...
more
Edenville Owls
by
Robert B. Parker
Philomel, 04/24/2007
There is something evil in the air. Fourteen-year-old Bobby senses it. Who is that man he saw arguing with his pretty new English teacher? And what ...
more
Literary Fiction
Fellow Travelers: A Novel
by
Thomas Mallon
Pantheon Books, 04/24/2007
Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers, dominated by such outsized characters as ...
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Historical Fiction
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
by
Robert Dallek
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/24/2007
More than thirty years after working side-by-side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger remain two of the most compelling, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Simple Genius
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 04/24/2007
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are back, and struggling in the emotional aftermath of the events that brought them to the brink in
Hour Game. Dogged ...
more
Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
by
Frank W. Abagnale
Broadway Books, 04/24/2007
When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers around the country about identity theft, he asks officers for their names and addresses and ...
more
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
by
Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher
Doubleday, 04/24/2007
Supreme Discomfort tracks the personal odyssey of perhaps the least understood man in Washington, from his poor childhood in Pin Point and Savannah, ...
more
The Life of Kingsley Amis
by
Zachary Leader
Pantheon Books, 04/24/2007
Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering ...
more
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
by
Sara Wheeler
Random House, 04/24/2007
Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a ...
more
Warriors: The Sight: Power of Three #1
by
Erin Hunter
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/24/2007
The wild cats have flourished in their new home on the banks of the lake for several seasons, and the Clans are growing strong and healthy with new ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
American Outrage
by
Tim Green
Grand Central Publishing, 04/25/2007
As an investigative journalist, Jake Carlson has made a
career of digging up the truth. Award-winning work for the network news and NPR have led to a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My First Five Husbands..: ..And the Ones Who Got Away
by
Rue McClanahan
Broadway Books, 04/25/2007
Before Carrie Bradshaw and her cosmo-sipping friends on
Sex and the City or the D
esperate Housewives of Wisteria Lane, there were the
Golden Girls - ...
more
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
by
Lee Iacocca
Scribner, 04/25/2007
Confessing that he has "flunked retirement," Iacocca calls on citizens of all ages to vote, get involved, and choose our leaders carefully. Along the ...
more
What's So Funny?: A Dortmunder Novel
by
Donald E. Westlake
Grand Central Publishing, 04/26/2007
In his classic caper novels, Donald E. Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down. The bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord...
more
Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/28/2007
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions ...
more
Quantico
by
Greg Bear
Vanguard Press, 04/30/2007
It's the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. New weapons are being spawned in remote ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Wrinkle in Time: Book 1 of the Time Quintet Series
by
Madeleine L'Engle
Square Fish, 05/01/2007
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict
by
Alice Cooper, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman
Crown, 05/01/2007
The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons—with a golf club. It started one ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bloodthirsty
by
Marshall Karp
MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 05/01/2007
It s a bloodthirsty town, Hollywood. No matter how popular you are, there's always someone who'd be happier if you were dead. Barry Gerber, one of the...
more
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
by
Deepak Chopra
HarperSanFrancisco, 05/01/2007
Buddha is an inspiring re-imagining of the life of a prince who gave up the trappings of royalty for something much more important - wisdom and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Evil Genius
by
Catherine Jinks
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/01/2007
Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he’s ...
more
Literary Fiction
Falling Man
by
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 05/01/2007
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that ...
more
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
by
Conn Iggulden
Delacorte Press, 05/01/2007
He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty
by
Keith Ablow
Little Brown & Company, 05/01/2007
Dr. Keith Ablow, bestselling author and host of a new
daily one-hour daytime-TV talk show, presents his first
self-help book. Based on more than 20 ...
more
Advice
Lying with Strangers
by
James Grippando
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/01/2007
Peyton Shields had always wanted to be a doctor, and now, thanks to her relentless drive, stellar academic credentials, and a mountain of debt to ...
more
Marley: A Dog Like No Other
by
John Grogan
Collins, 05/01/2007
This nonfiction book has been faithfully adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir
Marley & Me by John Grogan!
Marley...
more
Biography/Memoir
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
by
Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
Hyperion, 05/01/2007
While Don Cheadle was filming
Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Pants on Fire
by
Meg Cabot
HarperTeen, 05/01/2007
Katie Ellison is not a liar. It's just that telling the truth is so . . . tricky. She knows she shouldn't be making out with a drama club hottie ...
more
Literary Fiction
Prince of Nantucket
by
Jan Goldstein
Shaye Areheart Books, 05/01/2007
"I could never be a good father because I turned my back on being your son." Perhaps Teddy Mathison is right when he makes this heart-wrenching ...
more
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 05/01/2007
Buster Casey was every small kid born in a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. The high ...
more
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
by
Gina Kolata
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/01/2007
In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society’s obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about...
more
Still Life: Inspector Gamache Novel, #1
by
Louise Penny
St. Martin's Press, 05/01/2007
Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the ...
more
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems
by
Anthony Destefano
Doubleday, 05/01/2007
There have been thousands of books written about prayer and millions of sermons preached about it, yet people continue to wonder: Why doesn’t God...
more
The Big Girls: A Novel
by
Susanna Moore
Knopf, 05/01/2007
The Big Girls is a powerful and audacious novel about the anarchy of families, the sometimes destructive power of the maternal instinct, the vitality ...
more
The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love
by
Douglas C. Abrams
Atria Books, 05/01/2007
It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
by
Sarah Susanka
Random House, 05/01/2007
Most of us have lives that are as cluttered with unwanted obligations as our attics are cluttered with things. The bigger-is-better idea that ...
more
Advice
The Pesthouse
by
Jim Crace
Nan A. Talese, 05/01/2007
Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a barren, lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Seal of Solomon: Alfred Kropp 2
by
Rick Yancey
Bloomsbury USA, 05/01/2007
Thousands of years ago, King Solomon used a powerful ring, known as the Great Seal, to imprison the fallen angels of heaven in a sacred vessel. Now ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Silent Assassin: (A Dr. Alexandra Blake Novel)
by
Lori Andrews
Minotaur Books, 05/01/2007
When a John Doe with a bayonet wound in his chest is discovered in a Washington, D.C. alley, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake of the Armed Forces ...
more
The Society of S: A Novel
by
Susan Hubbard
Simon & Schuster, 05/01/2007
"If you ever want to hide from the world, live in a small city, where everyone seems anonymous." That's the advice of twelve-year-old Ariella Montero...
more
The Wedding Officer
by
Anthony Capella
Bantam Books, 05/01/2007
Captain James Gould arrives in wartime Naples assigned to discourage marriages between British soldiers and their gorgeous Italian girlfriends. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major
by
John Feinstein
Little Brown & Company, 05/02/2007
With arresting accounts from the players, established winners, rising stars, the
defeated, and the endlessly hopeful, America's favorite sportswriter...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Richness of Life
by
Stephen Jay Gould
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2007
Upon his death in 2002, Stephen Jay Gould stood at the pinnacle among observers of the natural world, recognized by Congress as a "living legend." His...
more
Imposture: A Novel
by
Benjamin Markovits
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2007
Lord Byron was the greatest writer and most notorious, scandalous lover of his age—an irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Landing
by
Emma Donoghue
Harcourt, 05/07/2007
A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and ...
more
The Nature of Monsters
by
Clare Clark
Harcourt, 05/07/2007
1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral rising above a rebuilt city. She arrives as an apothecary’...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sea Lady: A Novel
by
Margaret Drabble
Harcourt, 05/07/2007
This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they ...
more
After Dark
by
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 05/08/2007
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn. At its center are two sisters—Eri, a ...
more
Allah is Not Obliged
by
Ahmadou Kourouma
Anchor Books, 05/08/2007
When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for...
more
Boots on the Ground by Dusk: The Remarkable Life and Death of Pat Tillman
by
Mary Tillman, Narda Zacchino
Hyperion, 05/08/2007
Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract ...
more
Biography/Memoir
How to Be Sexy
by
Carmen Electra
Broadway Books, 05/08/2007
From her role on the internationally popular syndicated show
Baywatch, to her hostessing duties on MTV’s dating show
Singled Out, her reality ...
more
Advice
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
by
Michael Barone
Crown, 05/08/2007
The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989
by
Michael R. Beschloss
Simon & Schuster, 05/08/2007
Michael Beschloss has brought us a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous President ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sheer Abandon: A Novel
by
Penny Vincenzi
Doubleday, 05/08/2007
Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to ...
more
The 6th Target
by
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Little Brown & Company, 05/08/2007
When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind ...
more
Thrillers
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by
Natalie Angier
Houghton Mifflin, 05/08/2007
The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It’s vital reading for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Folded World: A Novel
by
Amity Gaige
Other Press, 05/08/2007
Charlie Shade was born into a quiet, prosperous life, but a sense of injustice dogs him. He feels destined to leave his life of "bread and laundry," ...
more
The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
by
Sally Jenkins
Doubleday, 05/08/2007
If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Sirens of Baghdad: A Novel
by
Yasmina Khadra
Nan A. Talese, 05/08/2007
Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade, a young man returns to his village where he witnesses three horrifying events ...
more
Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
by
Stephen Post, Jill Neimark, Reverend Otis Moss Jr.
Broadway Books, 05/08/2007
Dr. Stephen Post has been making headlines by funding studies at the nation’s top universities to prove once and for all the life-enhancing ...
more
Free Fire: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C. J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/10/2007
For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of ...
more
Presence: Stories
by
Arthur Miller
HarperTeen, 05/10/2007
Throughout his career as one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller wrote a remarkable series of highly regarded short ...
more
Short Stories
Crashing Through: A Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
by
Robert Kurson
Random House, 05/15/2007
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the...
more
Biography/Memoir
FDR
by
Jean Edward Smith
Random House, 05/15/2007
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In ...
more
Invisible Prey
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/15/2007
In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items ...
more
Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th, Book One of the Pacific War Series
by
Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Thomas Dunne Books, 05/15/2007
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and half minutes. But his words and tone—in a monologue that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Saturnalia: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel
by
Lindsey Davis
Minotaur Books, 05/15/2007
It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. Marcus Didius Falco and Helena have returned from Greece only to find that Helena’s brother Justinus’...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
by
William Langewiesche
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/15/2007
In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Edict: A Novel from the Beginnings of Golf
by
Bob Cupp
Knopf, 05/15/2007
Loosely based on a true but short-lived event which occurred March 4, 1457, Caeril and his friend and caddie Micael Carrick are favorites to win the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
by
Helen Epstein
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/15/2007
In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed firsthand...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Quest
by
Wilbur Smith
Thomas Dunne Books, 05/15/2007
Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows—the Nile fails. The waters that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Religion: A Novel
by
Tim Willocks
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/15/2007
May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Second Objective
by
Mark Frost
Hyperion, 05/15/2007
Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Unquiet: A Thriller
by
John Connolly
Atria Books, 05/15/2007
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has gone missing. His daughter insists that he killed himself after allegations surfaced that he had ...
more
Witch of Portobello
by
Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/15/2007
How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of whom we are?
That is the central question of international ...
more
Five Skies
by
Ron Carlson
Viking, 05/17/2007
Five Skies is the story of three men gathered high in the Rocky Mountains for a construction project that is to last the summer. Having participated ...
more
In the Woods
by
Tana French
Viking, 05/17/2007
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do...
more
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by
Joan Druett
Algonquin Books, 05/17/2007
In the winter of 1864, five seamen aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the remote and icy Auckland Island, 285 miles south of New Zealand. An ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families
by
Jeremy Paxman
PublicAffairs, 05/20/2007
The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power .... How then ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
by
Frances Kiernan
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2007
Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in ...
more
A Good and Happy Child
by
Justin Evans
Shaye Areheart Books, 05/22/2007
Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his ...
more
Free Food for Millionaires
by
Min Jin Lee
Grand Central Publishing, 05/22/2007
Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean ...
more
God in My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir
by
George Foreman, Ken Abraham
Thomas Nelson, 05/22/2007
George Foreman is one of the most highly recognizable figures on the planet. God in My Corner tells not only the life story of George, but more ...
more
The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
by
Michael Scott
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 05/22/2007
He holds the secret that can end the world.
The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is ...
more
The Overlook: A Novel
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 05/22/2007
In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a ...
more
Requiem for an Assassin
by
Barry Eisler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/25/2007
When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner ...
more
Entitled: A Tale of Modern Basketball
by
Frank Deford
Sourcebooks, 05/28/2007
They were an odd couple, Howie and Jay. Howie, an aging failure at the game of baseball until he became the manager of the Cleveland Indians. And Jay ...
more
Divisadero
by
Michael Ondaatje
Knopf, 05/29/2007
In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of ...
more
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by
Jean Pfaelzer
Random House, 05/29/2007
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
If Today Be Sweet
by
Thrity Umrigar
William Morrow, 05/29/2007
Tehmina Sethna's beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home. Now Tehmina is being asked to ...
more
Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life
by
Bill Engvall, Alan Eisenstock
St. Martin's Press, 05/29/2007
In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Bill Engvall takes you on the rollicking ride of his life, beginning with his childhood in Texas and ...
more
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by
Vincent Bugliosi
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/29/2007
Polls reveal that over 75 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald; some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Thrillers
Tales of the City: A Novel (Tales of the City, 1)
by
Armistead Maupin
Harper Perennial, 05/29/2007
For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's
Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Broken Shore: A Novel
by
Peter Temple
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/29/2007
Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is—...
more
The Fourth Order
by
Stephen Frey
Ballantine Books, 05/29/2007
Dynamic chief financial officer Michael Rose is looking to add an exciting and profitable new dimension to energy conglomerate Trafalgar Industries ...
more
The Gladiator
by
Harry Turtledove
Tor Books, 05/29/2007
The Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Good Guy
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 05/29/2007
Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery ...
more
White Corridor: A Bryant and May Mystery
by
Christopher Fowler
Bantam Books, 05/29/2007
It’s an “impossible” crime—a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a locked autopsy room populated only by the dead and...
more
A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius the XII
by
Dan Kurzman
Perseus Publishing, 05/30/2007
In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome and ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Consequences
by
Penelope Lively
Viking, 05/31/2007
A chance meeting in St. James’s Park begins young Lorna and Matt’s intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in ...
more
Barefoot: A Novel
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/01/2007
Three women—burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues—tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac ...
more
Literary Fiction
Charlie Bone and the Beast: Children of the Red King Series
by
Jenny Nimmo
Orchard Books, 06/01/2007
Life should be perfect for Charlie now that his parents have been reunited. But mystery and adventure always find him. This time Asa, a fellow ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Jango: Book Two of the Noble Warriors
by
William Nicholson
Harcourt Children's Books, 06/01/2007
Seeker, Morning Star, and the Wildman return in this gripping sequel to Seeker and discover that the mysterious warrior sect they were so desperate to...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Justice for the Damned
by
Priscilla Royal
Poisoned Pen Press, 06/01/2007
It is May of 1272, and Prioress Eleanor, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, returns to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Silence
by
Thomas Perry
Harcourt, 06/01/2007
Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her ...
more
The Secret Hangman
by
Peter Lovesey
Soho Press, 06/01/2007
Widowed Inspector Peter Diamond is being pursued by a secret admirer as he pursues a serial killer. Delia Williamson, a mother of two young girls who ...
more
Be Near Me
by
Andrew O'Hagan
Harcourt, 06/04/2007
"Always trust a stranger," said David's mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down."
Half a life later, ...
more
The Off Season
by
Catherine Murdock
Houghton Mifflin, 06/04/2007
Grade 7–10. Life is looking up for D.J. Schwenk. She's in eleventh grade, finally. After a rocky summer, she's reconnecting in a big way with her...
more
Bangkok Haunts
by
John Burdett
Knopf, 06/05/2007
Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok’s District 8, but nothing like the video he’s just been sent anonymously: “...
more
Dedication
by
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Atria Books, 06/05/2007
What if your first love left town, without a word to anyone, hours before your senior prom? What if, within months, he became one of the biggest ...
more
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by
Alison Bechdel
Mariner Books, 06/05/2007
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Grace Will Lead Me Home
by
Robin Givens
Miramax, 06/05/2007
As an honor student at Sarah Lawrence, Robin Givens landed a job on the Cosby Show. She was a golden girl; success came instantly. And then she met ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Short Stories
Spare Change: A Sunny Randall Novel
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/05/2007
When a serial murderer dubbed "The Spare Change Killer" by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out ...
more
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
by
Andrew Keen
Currency, 06/05/2007
In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Harlequin: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15
by
Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Books, 06/05/2007
Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that ...
more
The Navigator
by
Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/05/2007
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get ...
more
The Pentagon: A History
by
Steve Vogel
Random House, 06/05/2007
The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption
by
John Perkins
Dutton, 06/05/2007
In his stunning memoir,
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sleeping Doll: A Novel
by
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 06/05/2007
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question ...
more
Throw Like a Girl
by
Jean Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 06/05/2007
Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible ...
more
Tom Bedlam: A Novel
by
George Hagen
Random House, 06/05/2007
Born in a shabby tenement in Victorian London, young Tom Bedlam is employed stoking the furnaces in a massive porcelain factory; he is son to a father...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
by
Ann Rule
Free Press, 06/05/2007
Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale suburbs of Atlanta, ...
more
Mysteries
Vineyard Stalker: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
by
Philip R. Craig
Scribner, 06/05/2007
J. W. Jackson, the ex-Boston cop turned fisherman, cook, and jack-of-all-trades, delves deep into the mysterious depths of his beloved Vineyard in ...
more
Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas
by
Rick Moody
Little Brown & Company, 06/06/2007
Right Livelihoods begins with a cataclysmic vision of New York City after the leveling of 50 square blocks of Manhattan. Four million have died. ...
more
Advice
Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by
Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta
Little Brown & Company, 06/08/2007
She is one of the most influential and recognizable figures in our country, and perhaps the single most divisive individual in our political landscape...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein
by
David Anthony Durham
Doubleday, 06/12/2007
Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity, won ages ago by his ancestors. A widower of high ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash
by
John Carter Cash
Thomas Nelson, 06/12/2007
June Carter was born in the rugged mountains of Maces Springs, Virginia, to Ezra and Maybelle Carter, pioneers of country music. On stage from a very ...
more
Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 06/12/2007
The fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller. Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer&#...
more
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by
Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko
Free Press, 06/12/2007
Alex Goldfarb, the close friend of murdered defector Litvinenko, with the help of his widow, tells the full story of the ex-spy's career, from his ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Double Take: An FBI Thriller
by
Catherine Coulter
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/12/2007
It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned ...
more
Lawn Boy
by
Gary Paulsen
Wendy Lamb Books, 06/12/2007
One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow ...
more
Love Kills: A Britt Montero Novel
by
Edna Buchanan
Simon & Schuster, 06/12/2007
When a bulldozer in the Everglades unearths the skull of an infamous kidnapper, the Cold Case Squad is brought in to investigate. Britt was the last ...
more
Mere Anarchy
by
Woody Allen
Random House, 06/12/2007
Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics
Getting Even,
Without Feathers and
Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a ...
more
Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel
by
Armistead Maupin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/12/2007
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved ...
more
Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World
by
Josh Rushing
Palgrave Macmillan, 06/12/2007
Blending his riveting personal story with innovative ideas about how to win the war on terror, former marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent
by
James Morrow, Kathryn Morrow (editors)
Tor Books, 06/12/2007
This is the best book of its kind in at least two decades. It is a literate, intelligent book of powerful SF stories from across Europe. These tales ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
by
Martin Cruz Smith
Simon & Schuster, 06/12/2007
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-...
more
The Diana Chronicles
by
Tina Brown
Doubleday, 06/12/2007
Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair; and The New Yorker could possibly give us ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Sonnet Lover
by
Carol Goodman
Ballantine Books, 06/12/2007
Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionate sonnets, unknown to modern scholarship, ardently praising a mysterious dark-haired beauty? This tantalizing...
more
The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal
by
Victoria Zackheim
Grand Central Publishing, 06/13/2007
She's been called the harpy, the Jezebel, the Lorelei, the
bitch...and other choice names. In truth, she is someone's
daughter, mother, friend, ...
more
The Fire Thief Fights Back: Book Three in The Fire Thief Trilogy
by
Terry Deary
Kingfisher, 06/15/2007
Ages 9-12. Sam and his mother are swindling the people of Eden City with their medicine show, selling "miracle" cures to their gullible audiences. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Summer of the World
by
Emily Mitchell
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/18/2007
In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. France is ...
more
Lean Mean Thirteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel
by
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press, 06/19/2007
New secrets, old flames, and hidden agendas are about to send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most outrageous adventure yet!
MISTAKE #1
...
more
Mysteries
Second Chance
by
Jane Green
Viking, 06/19/2007
Green tells the story of a group of people who haven’t seen each other since they were best friends at school. When one of them dies in a ...
more
Secret Asset: A Novel
by
Stella Rimington
Knopf, 06/19/2007
Liz has always been particularly skilled at “assessing people,” and when one of her agents reports suspicious meetings taking place at an ...
more
Slipknot
by
Linda Greenlaw
Hyperion, 06/19/2007
Jane Bunker is a marine investigator who has just moved back to a sleepy Maine community. She's a lover of all things Scottish and so thrifty that she...
more
The Lady in Blue: A Novel
by
Javier Sierra
Atria Books, 06/19/2007
In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing
dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't
...
more
The Manny
by
Holly Peterson
Dial Books, 06/19/2007
What’s a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model and her husband is a power workaholic? If she&#...
more
The Opposite House: A Novel
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Nan A. Talese, 06/19/2007
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love ...
more
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality From The Human Anatomy Lab
by
Christine Montross
Penguin Press, 06/21/2007
A hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open
Christine Montross ...
more
Peeling the Onion
by
Gunter Grass
Harcourt, 06/25/2007
In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment ...
more
InterWorld
by
Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
Eos, 06/26/2007
Joey Harker isn't a hero.
In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.
But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
M Is for Magic
by
Neil Gaiman
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/26/2007
Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers—but always...
more
New England White: A Novel
by
Stephen L. Carter
Knopf, 06/26/2007
Stephen L. Carter returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial ...
more
Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources
by
Norman Pearlstine
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/26/2007
When Norman Pearlstine—as editor in chief of Time Inc.—agreed to give prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a reporter’s notes of a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Starfist: Firestorm
by
David Sherman, Dan Cragg
Del Rey, 06/26/2007
With its down and dirty depiction of warfare written by men who know what it’s like to be under fire, the Starfist saga is a runaway success ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Double Agents: A Men at War Novel
by
W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/26/2007
Critics and fans alike welcomed the return of the Men at War series with
The Saboteurs. Now Canidy, Fulmar, and colleagues in the Office of Strategic ...
more
Queen of Babble in the Big City
by
Meg Cabot
William Morrow, 06/28/2007
When "Summer Fling" Luke uses the L word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to give up her plan of being postgrad roomies with best friend, ...
more
Tug of War: A Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery
by
Barbara Cleverly
Carroll & Graf, 06/28/2007
Joe Sandilands is back and headed to France where he’s scheduled to stay as the guest of a glamorous French war window on her estate. The widow ...
more
Love Is a Many Trousered Thing: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by
Louise Rennison
HarperTeen, 07/01/2007
After queuing up at the cake shop of luuurve for ages, I have accidentally bought two cakes.
And I am sitting in a bush.
Georgia thought her ...
more
Literary Fiction
Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mystery
by
Ian Sansom
Harper Perennial, 07/01/2007
Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing—along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, ...
more
The Indian Bride
by
Karin Fossum
Harcourt, 07/02/2007
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride...
more
The Judas Strain
by
James Rollins
William Morrow, 07/02/2007
From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind—a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. ...
more
The Quickie: Murder never felt so good
by
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Little Brown & Company, 07/02/2007
Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress.
When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel
with another woman, she decides to ...
more
Thrillers
Mr Sebastian and the Negro Magician: A Novel
by
Daniel Wallace
Doubleday, 07/03/2007
A haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the ...
more
Vivaldi's Virgins
by
Barbara Quick
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/03/2007
A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies,
Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
by
Robert D. Novak
Crown Forum, 07/09/2007
Novak has been a Washington insider since the days when the place was a sleepy southern town and journalism was built on shoe leather and the ability ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Connection
by
Alafair Burke
Henry Holt and Company, 07/10/2007
When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on...
more
In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
by
Ronald Spector
Random House, 07/10/2007
With access to recently available firsthand accounts by Chinese, Japanese, British, and American witnesses and previously top secret U.S. intelligence...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Killer Weekend
by
Ridley Pearson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/10/2007
Eight years ago, in Sun Valley - snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious - all that stood between U.S. Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler ...
more
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
by
Catrine Clay
Walker & Company, 07/10/2007
Known among their families as Georgie, Willy, and Nicky, they were, respectively, the royal cousins George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mary Modern: A Novel
by
Camille Deangelis
Shaye Areheart Books, 07/10/2007
Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. ...
more
Slan Hunter
by
Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books, 07/10/2007
This startling SF adventure novel is a collaboration between the classic SF Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, and contemporary master Kevin J. Anderson. ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dark River: Book Two of the Fourth Realm
by
John Twelve Hawks
Doubleday, 07/10/2007
In
The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced readers to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. Under constant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Gatecrasher
by
Madeleine Wickham
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/10/2007
With the help of The Times announcements page she gatecrashes the funerals of the wealthy, preying on rich vulnerable men. She charms her way into ...
more
The Night Ferry
by
Michael Robotham
Doubleday, 07/10/2007
Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, is recovering from injuries sustained in the line of duty when she receives a letter from ...
more
Ever-Running Man: A Sharon McCone Mystery
by
Marcia Muller
Grand Central Publishing, 07/12/2007
Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down "the ever-running man," a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at...
more
The Americano: Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom
by
Aran Shetterly
Algonquin Books, 07/12/2007
At age twenty-nine, William Morgan left Toledo, Ohio, and traveled to Cuba to fight alongside Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in the revolution that ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Talk to a Widower
by
Jonathan Tropper
Delacorte Press, 07/17/2007
Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity - the object of sympathy, ...
more
Someone to Love
by
Jude Deveraux
Atria Books, 07/17/2007
After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy's
mysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman ...
more
The First Commandment:: A Thriller
by
Brad Thor
Atria Books, 07/17/2007
Six months ago: In the dead of the night, five of the most dangerous detainees
in the war on terror are pulled from their isolation cells in ...
more
The People's Princess: Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales, From Those Who Knew Her Best
by
Larry King
Crown, 07/17/2007
In the ten years since Princess Diana’s shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world’s imagination has only increased. For The ...
more
The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/17/2007
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.
This is ...
more
The Water's Lovely
by
Ruth Rendell
Crown, 07/17/2007
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the ...
more
What Matters Most
by
Luanne Rice
Bantam Books, 07/17/2007
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the past—and the son—they left behind. For it ...
more
Eye of The Beholder
by
David Ellis
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/19/2007
Renowned attorney Paul Riley has built a lucrative career based on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, a serial killer who followed the lyrics of ...
more
Salt
by
Jeremy Page
Viking, 07/19/2007
It is the summer of 1945 in Norfolk, England, and when Goose comes upon a German soldier buried neck deep in the mud of a local salt marsh, she pulls ...
more
First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel
by
Jasper Fforde
Viking, 07/24/2007
It’s been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday’...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
by
Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd
Candlewick Press, 07/24/2007
Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.
Maidens, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
I Am Not Joey Pigza
by
Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/24/2007
Ages 9-12. Just when Joey Pigza’s wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Justice Denied
by
J. A. Jance
William Morrow, 07/24/2007
The investigation of LaShawn Tompkins's murder seems straightforward enough. Upon his release from death row, the ex-drug dealer returned to his old ...
more
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
by
Linda Perlstein
Henry Holt and Company, 07/24/2007
The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Complete Stories
by
David Malouf
Pantheon Books, 07/24/2007
Heartbreakingly beautiful, richly satisfying,
The Complete Stories also includes David Malouf’s short fiction from
Dream Stuff,
Antipodes, and
...more
Literary Fiction
The Secret Servant
by
Daniel Silva
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/24/2007
When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, he had just prevailed in his blood-...
more
Thunder Bay: A Cork O'Connor
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 07/24/2007
In Thunder Bay, fan favorite Cork O'Connor is back in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota. He's left his badge behind and is ready for a life of ...
more
Beyond Reach
by
Karin Slaughter
Delacorte Press, 07/31/2007
Sara Linton—resident medical examiner/pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia,—has plenty of hardship to deal with, including defending ...
more
In at the Death: Settling Accounts Book IV
by
Harry Turtledove
Del Rey, 07/31/2007
Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Scots on the Rocks: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
by
Mary Daheim
William Morrow, 07/31/2007
When Judith and her cousin Renie go on vacation in a remote and possibly haunted Scottish castle owned by a rich whiskey distillery baron strange ...
more
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by
Robert D. Morris
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/31/2007
With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Cleft: A Novel
by
Doris Lessing
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/31/2007
In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the...
more
The Seventh Sacrament
by
David Hewson
Delacorte Press, 07/31/2007
In the heat of a Rome summer, a seven-year-old boy vanishes in the dank catacombs beneath the city. Now fourteen years have passed, and in acclaimed ...
more
Buried
by
Mark Billingham
HarperCollins Publishers, 08/01/2007
Teenager Luke Mullen is missing. He was last seen by schoolmates getting into a car with an older woman, and it is unclear whether he has disappeared ...
more
Here If You Need Me: A True Story
by
Kate Braestrup
Little Brown & Company, 08/01/2007
Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state ...
more
The Intruders
by
Michael Marshall
William Morrow, 08/01/2007
For Jack Whalen, it all starts with a visit from a childhood friend, now a lawyer, who asks for his help on an odd case. The family members of a ...
more
Lottery: A Novel
by
Patricia Wood
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/02/2007
Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so ...
more
Literary Fiction
Red Rover
by
Deirdre McNamer
Viking, 08/02/2007
A stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship.
Red Rover tells the story of three Montana men who get ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Harcourt, 08/06/2007
In "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death—and ...
more
Accidental Time Machine
by
Joe Haldeman
Ace Books, 08/07/2007
Joe Haldeman "has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time" (Rocky Mountain News). Now he delivers a provocative ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Critical
by
Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/07/2007
Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on ...
more
Dead Ex
by
Harley Jane Kozak
Doubleday, 08/07/2007
Wollie Shelley—the endearing, idiosyncratic heroine of the award-winning
Dating Dead Men and
Dating Is Murder—returns in a funny murder ...
more
Death of a Murderer
by
Rupert Thomson
Knopf, 08/07/2007
Having spent decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, this murderer has finally died of natural causes but is no less ...
more
Eclipse
by
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/07/2007
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fourth Comings: A Novel
by
Megan McCafferty
Crown, 08/07/2007
At first it seems that she’s living the elusive New York City dream. She’s subletting an apartment with her best friend, Hope, working for a...
more
Letter from Point Clear: A Novel
by
Dennis McFarland
Henry Holt and Company, 08/07/2007
The Owen children long ago left their gracious family home in Point Clear, Alabama, in favor of points north. But when their father takes ill, the ...
more
Mad Dash: A Novel
by
Patricia Gaffney
Shaye Areheart Books, 08/07/2007
Dash has just left her husband . . . because of a dog. Of course, it's not just the dog. It's her mother's death. It's her daughter going off to ...
more
Malice
by
Robert K. Tanenbaum
Atria Books, 08/07/2007
New York District Attorney Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt
that came within a few millimeters of killing him, takes on a shadowy...
more
Sandworms of Dune
by
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books, 08/07/2007
At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel,
Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spook Country
by
William Gibson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/07/2007
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving ...
more
Starburst: A Novel
by
Robin Pilcher
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/07/2007
The annual Edinburgh International Festival, which celebrates film, music, and comedy, brings thousands to the beloved Scottish town each summer. ...
more
The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel
by
Faye Kellerman
William Morrow, 08/07/2007
At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock ...
more
The End of The Alphabet
by
C.S. Richardson
Doubleday, 08/07/2007
The End of The Alphabet is a tender, intimate story of an ordinary life defined by an extraordinary love. Ambrose Zephyr is a contented man. He shares...
more
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
by
Lloyd Alexander
Henry Holt and Company, 08/07/2007
A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
by
Greg Behrman
Free Press, 08/07/2007
When World War II ended in Europe, the continent lay in tatters. Tens of millions of people had been killed. Ancient cities had been demolished. The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much: A Meg Langslow Mystery
by
Donna Andrews
Minotaur Books, 08/07/2007
Okay, maybe there are people in Antarctica with penguins in their basements, but in Virginia? Only Meg’s dad could manage that one. A body down ...
more
The Rest of Her Life
by
Laura Moriarty
Hyperion, 08/07/2007
In
The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions...
more
The Widow's Mate: A Father Dowling Mystery
by
Ralph McInerny
Minotaur Books, 08/07/2007
Father Dowling is a dedicated parish priest who happens to have a knack for unraveling the mysteries of the real world as well as those of heaven, but...
more
Victory Square
by
Olen Steinhauer
Minotaur Books, 08/07/2007
The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer’s fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary ...
more
Waking with Enemies
by
Eric Jerome Dickey
Dutton, 08/07/2007
Ten-time New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey sizzles in this rapid-fire sequel to
Sleeping with Strangers, which finds international ...
more
You Can Run but You Can't Hide: The Life and Times of Dog the Bounty Hunter
by
Duane Chapman
Hyperion, 08/07/2007
Dog spent the first twenty-three years of his life on the wrong side of the law. In
You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide, he offers an inside look at ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Force of Nature: A Novel
by
Suzanne Brockmann
Ballantine Books, 08/14/2007
Florida private investigator and ex-cop Ric Alvarado's life is spiraling out of control. First, his beautiful new Girl Friday Annie Dugan is far more ...
more
Love, Stargirl
by
Jerry Spinelli
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/14/2007
Love, Stargirl picks up a year after
Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of
Stargirl...more
Literary Fiction
Muddle Earth
by
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 08/14/2007
Joe Jefferson is an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary Earth. At least, he was. But something strange happened when he was walking his dog, and now he's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Play Dirty: A Novel
by
Sandra Brown
Simon & Schuster, 08/14/2007
After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it ...
more
The Penalty
by
Mal Peet
Candlewick Press, 08/14/2007
As the city of San Juan pulses to summer’s sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace &...
more
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by
John Matteson
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/20/2007
Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet, during her youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher, lecturer, and...
more
The Space Boy
by
Orson Scott Card, Lance Card
Subterranean Press, 08/20/2007
Is it space that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Letters to a Young Teacher
by
Jonathan Kozol
Crown, 08/21/2007
Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Power Play
by
Joseph Finder
St. Martin's Press, 08/21/2007
Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down—...
more
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
by
Ying Chang Compestine
Henry Holt and Company, 08/21/2007
Nine-year-old Ling is very comfortable in her life; her parents are both dedicated surgeons in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of...
more
Sweet Revenge: Goldy Culinary Mystery, Book 14
by
Diane Mott Davidson
William Morrow, 08/21/2007
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu...
more
The Assassin's Song
by
M.G. Vassanji
Doubleday, 08/21/2007
The Assassin’s Song opens in the 1960s in a village in Western India, the site of the thirteenth-century Sufi shrine of Pirbaag. Karsan ...
more
The Chicago Way
by
Michael Harvey
Knopf, 08/21/2007
From the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Land of the Silver Apples
by
Nancy Farmer
Atheneum Books, 08/21/2007
Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sanctuary
by
Raymond Khoury
Dutton, 08/21/2007
Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. Their leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the ...
more
Thrillers
Still Summer
by
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Grand Central Publishing, 08/23/2007
Back in high school, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly were known as The Godmothers, the girls everyone wanted to be and know. Unlike many friendships, their ...
more
A Killer's Kiss
by
William Lashner
William Morrow, 08/28/2007
There's nothing easier than falling in love with an old girlfriend. That's what Philly lawyer Victor Carl finds out when he hooks up again with a ...
more
Bones to Ashes: A Novel
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 08/28/2007
Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, ...
more
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
by
Robin Brande
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/28/2007
Your best friend hates you. The guy you liked hates you. Your entire group of friends hates you. All because you did the right thing.
Welcome to ...
more
Garden Spells
by
Sarah Addison Allen
Bantam Books, 08/28/2007
In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a ...
more
Katie: The Real Story
by
Edward Klein
Crown, 08/28/2007
For the past twenty-five years—first as the blithe spirit of the Today show, then as the only woman ever to anchor a network news program solo&#...
more
Biography/Memoir
Historical Fiction
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by
Rachel Cohn
Ember, 08/28/2007
"
I know this is going to sound strange, but would you mind being my girlfriend for the next five minutes?"
Nick frequents New York's indie rock ...
more
Literary Fiction
Patriot Acts
by
Greg Rucka
Bantam Books, 08/28/2007
Greg Rucka is back with a vengeance in this electrifying thriller starring suspense fiction’s most dangerous hero: Atticus Kodiak. This time the ...
more
Rebel Island
by
Rick Riordan
Bantam Books, 08/28/2007
Tres Navarre had given up private investigation—and with it a violent past that had buried too many friends. Newly married, with a baby on the ...
more
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by
Ian Ayres
Bantam Books, 08/28/2007
Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Elves of Cintra: The Genesis of Shannara, Book 2
by
Terry Brooks
Del Rey, 08/28/2007
Fifty years from now, our world is a very different place. Governments have fallen. Pollution has poisoned the skies, water, and soil. Thousands live ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
by
Gregory A. Freeman
NAL, 08/28/2007
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews.
In 1944 the OSS ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pig Who Saved the World
by
Paul Shipton
Candlewick Press, 08/28/2007
After saving the Cosmos (and telling anyone who will listen all about it), Gryllus the Pig has decided it’s time to return to his human form. If ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wheel of Darkness
by
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing, 08/28/2007
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the ...
more
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
by
Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor
Harmony Books, 08/28/2007
An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in
Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Somewhere in the City
by
Marcia Muller
Pegasus Books, 08/30/2007
A collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological ...
more
Never Surrender
by
Michael Dobbs
Sourcebooks, 09/01/2007
This extraordinary work of historical fiction by bestselling author Michael Dobbs finds Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb-pitted in a personal ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99
by
Ray Bradbury
William Morrow, 09/01/2007
Two novellas. In
Somewhere a Band Is Playing, a writer is drawn by poetry and dreams to tiny Summerton, Arizona, a community hidden in plain view, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Powers: Annals of the Western Shore #3
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
Clarion, 09/01/2007
Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
by
Reviel Netz, William Noel
Da Capo Press, 09/01/2007
Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Reincarnationist
by
M. J. Rose
Mira, 09/01/2007
A bomb in Rome, a flash of bluish-white light, and photojournalist Josh Ryder's world exploded. From that instant nothing would ever be the same.
...
more
Resurrectionist: A Regency Crime Thriller
by
James McGee
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2007
Hawkwood, the Regency James Bond, returns in this gripping, action packed sequel to the bestselling 'Ratcatcher'. Matthew Hawkwood. Soldier, spy, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
by
Hugh Kennedy
Da Capo Press, 09/03/2007
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country
by
Wesley K. Clark
Palgrave Macmillan, 09/04/2007
Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he was drafted by popular demand to run for the Democratic ...
more
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by
Bjørn Lomborg
Knopf, 09/04/2007
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Diana Ross: A Biography
by
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Kensington, 09/04/2007
Drawn from hundreds of interviews conducted over four decades and featuring rare, never-before-published photos, Diana Ross paints an unforgettable ...
more
Engleby: A Novel
by
Sebastian Faulks
Doubleday, 09/04/2007
"My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university."
With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, ...
more
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
by
Bill Clinton
Knopf, 09/04/2007
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary ...
more
Advice
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
by
Mother Teresa, Brian Kolodiejchuk
Doubleday, 09/04/2007
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Songs Without Words
by
Ann Packer
Knopf, 09/04/2007
Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth’s mother ...
more
The Braindead Megaphone
by
George Saunders
Riverhead Books, 09/04/2007
George Saunders's first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are ...
more
The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy
by
Glenn Kessler
St. Martin's Press, 09/04/2007
In his riveting glimpse into the life of one of the most powerful Secretaries of State in recent years, Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Indian Clerk: A Novel
by
David Leavitt
Bloomsbury USA, 09/04/2007
On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy—eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by
John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/04/2007
Mearsheimer and Walt confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman
by
Nicholas Booth
Arcade Publishing, 09/04/2007
Eddie Chapman was handsome, witty, and charming—a con man, jailbird, womanizer, and safe-cracker. He was also the most remarkable double agent of...
more
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions
by
James R. Gaines
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/06/2007
On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Start Strong, Finish Strong: Prescriptions for a Lifetime of Good Health
by
Kenneth H. Cooper , Tyler C. Cooper , William Proctor
Avery, 09/06/2007
Start Strong, Finish Strong is about living the life we all want - now and as we age. It's about breaking free from chronic pain and nagging injuries....
more
Advice
Things Hoped For
by
Andrew Clements
Puffin, 09/06/2007
When Gwen's grandfather disappears from their home in New York City, he leaves a message saying not to worry--but it's hard when Gwen has upcoming ...
more
A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
by
Frances Welch
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/10/2007
Did the seventeen-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918? Over the years, the possibility that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
by
Hanna Rosin
Harcourt, 09/10/2007
Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
by
Scott Weidensaul
Harcourt, 09/10/2007
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds ...
Of a Feather traces the colorful origins ...
more
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
by
Francisco Goldman
Grove Press, 09/10/2007
Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gathering
by
Anne Enright
Grove Press, 09/10/2007
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers
The Gathering, a moving, ...
more
The Spanish Bow
by
Andromeda Romano-Lax
Harcourt, 09/10/2007
In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on the unlikely path of becoming a musician. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Vanilla Bright like Eminem
by
Michel Faber
Harcourt, 09/10/2007
Michel Faber is not only a master storyteller but a daring innovator as well. Here are the pitch-perfect prose, indelible characterizations, and deep ...
more
Winterbirth: The Godless World Book 1
by
Brian Ruckle
Orbit, 09/10/2007
An uneasy truce exists between the thanes of the True Bloods.
Now, as another winter approaches, the armies of the Black Road march south, from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You've Been Warned: Fear is just the Begining
by
James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Little Brown & Company, 09/10/2007
Kristin Burns is making her way in New York City. Her photos are being considered at a major Manhattan gallery, she works by day with two wonderful ...
more
(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
by
Steve Almond
Random House, 09/11/2007
How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised ...
more
3:16: The Numbers of Hope
by
Max Lucado
Thomas Nelson, 09/11/2007
If 9/11 are the numbers of terror and despair, then 3:16 are the numbers of hope. Best selling author Max Lucado leads readers through a word-by-word ...
more
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
by
John W. Dean
Viking, 09/11/2007
In his eighth book, Dean takes the broadest and deepest view yet of the dysfunctional chaos and institutional damage that the Republican Party and its...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clash of the Sky Galleons: Edge Chronicles 9
by
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
David Fickling Books, 09/11/2007
Ages 9-12. In the penultimate book in the Edge Chronicles series, Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game
by
Paul Hoffman
Hyperion, 09/11/2007
As a child, Paul Hoffman lost himself in chess ... As an adolescent, he loved the artistic purity of the game -- and the euphoria he felt after a hard...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
by
Christopher Dodd, Lary Bloom
Crown, 09/11/2007
Senator Christopher Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg.
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
by
Garrison Keillor
Viking, 09/11/2007
Evelyn was a Sanctified Brethren woman of good standing, a devoted mother, a serious quilter. Only after she dies in her sleep, as she always wished ...
more
Literary Fiction
The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel
by
Stephen Hunter
Simon & Schuster, 09/11/2007
Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met...
more
The Crow: Pellinor Trilogy
by
Alison Croggon
Candlewick Press, 09/11/2007
Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
by
Jay Winik
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/11/2007
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by
Steven Pinker
Viking, 09/11/2007
Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945
by
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Knopf, 09/11/2007
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
by
Gregory Maguire
Candlewick Press, 09/11/2007
A terrible storm is raging, and ten-year-old Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon
by
Alexandre Dumas
Perseus Publishing, 09/12/2007
The last cavalier is also Count Hector de Sainte-Hermine, who for three years has been languishing in prison when, in 1804, on the eve of Napoleon's ...
more
Historical Fiction
Dead Heat
by
Dick Francis, Felix Francis
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/17/2007
Max is something of a celebrity in Newmarket circles. He is founder of the racing town's favorite Michelin-starred restaurant, the Hay Net. However, ...
more
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by
Alan Greenspan
Penguin Press, 09/17/2007
Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Alex & The Ironic Gentleman
by
Adrienne Kress
Weinstein Books, 09/18/2007
Ages 8-12. Alex hates Wigpowder-Steele Academy because as much as she enjoys learning, she doesn't enjoy wearing a uniform with a skirt. She also ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Book of a Thousand Days
by
Shannon Hale
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 09/18/2007
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bullyville
by
Francine Prose
HarperTeen, 09/18/2007
When eighth grader Bart Rangely is granted a "mercy" scholarship to an elite private school after his father is killed in the North Tower, doors ...
more
Literary Fiction
Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
by
David Cordingly
Bloomsbury USA, 09/18/2007
Nicknamed
le loup des mers (“the sea wolf”) by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time....
more
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
by
Ben Ratliff
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/18/2007
What was the essence of John Coltrane’s achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What was it about his improvising, his ...
more
Dexter in the Dark: A Novel
by
Jeff Lindsay
Doubleday, 09/18/2007
In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is not unaccustomed to seeing evil deeds…particularly because, on occasion, he ...
more
Invasive Procedures
by
Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Tor Books, 09/18/2007
George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane – he has created a method to alter human DNA, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Making Money: Discworld Novels
by
Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/18/2007
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Night Work: A Novel
by
Steve Hamilton
Minotaur Books, 09/18/2007
It’s been two years since his fiancée, Laurel, was brutally murdered. Two years of grief and loneliness. On this hot summer night, he’s...
more
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
by
John Bowe
Random House, 09/18/2007
Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren’t ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Other Colors: Essays and a Story
by
Orhan Pamuk
Knopf, 09/18/2007
Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces—personal, critical, and meditative—the ...
more
Essays
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by
Shannon Brownlee
Bloomsbury USA, 09/18/2007
Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
by
Matthew Brzezinski
Times Books, 09/18/2007
Matthew Brzezinski takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
by
Peter Cameron
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/18/2007
It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a ...
more
The Bone Garden: A Novel
by
Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books, 09/18/2007
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–...
more
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
by
Andrew Nagorski
Simon & Schuster, 09/18/2007
The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by
Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday, 09/18/2007
Based on exclusive interviews with the Supreme Court Justices themselves and other insiders,
The Nine is a timely and provocative “state of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Nixie's Song: Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1
by
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/18/2007
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep
by
John Hulme
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 09/18/2007
Twelve-year-old Becker Drane has definitely got the coolest job of any seventh grader in Highland Park, New Jersey. He works as a Fixer for The Seems....
more
The Used World: A Novel
by
Haven Kimmel
Free Press, 09/18/2007
Hazel Hunnicutt's Used World Emporium is a sprawling antique store that is "the station at the end of the line for objects that sometimes appeared ...
more
Trespass: A Novel
by
Valerie Martin
Nan A. Talese, 09/18/2007
Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on ...
more
Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory
by
Linda Spalding
Pantheon Books, 09/18/2007
Murder. Hawaii’s beautiful Hanauma Bay. The suspects: two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Maryann Acker, a pretty young Mormon woman, is 18...
more
Playing For Pizza: A Novel
by
John Grisham
Doubleday, 09/24/2007
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Choice
by
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 09/24/2007
Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the ...
more
Romance
The Italian Lover
by
Robert Hellenga
Little Brown & Company, 09/24/2007
An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence , featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's
The Sixteen ...more
Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
by
James D. Watson
Knopf, 09/25/2007
From a living legend - James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for having revealed the structure of DNA - a personal account of the making of a ...
more
Fire in the Blood
by
Irene Nemirovsky
Knopf, 09/25/2007
Here is a missing piece of the remarkable posthumous legacy of Irène Némirovsky, author of the internationally acclaimed
Suite Franç...more
Literary Fiction
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by
John Elder Robison
Crown, 09/25/2007
Look Me in the Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Asperger’s at a time when the diagnosis simply didn’t exist. A born ...
more
Shoot Him If He Runs: Stone Barrington Novels
by
Stuart Woods
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/25/2007
Teddy Fay, a rogue agent last seen escaping an imploding building in Iron Orchid, has been considered dead for some time now. But President Will Lee ...
more
Terminal: A Burke Novel
by
Andrew Vachss
Pantheon Books, 09/25/2007
An ex-con member of the Aryan Brotherhood who identifies himself as Tex contacts Burke. Tex is terminally ill, and needs money bad. Tex knows how to ...
more
Thrillers
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
by
David Halberstam
Hyperion, 09/25/2007
The Coldest Winter is a successor to Halberstam's
The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it. Halberstam considered ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gum Thief
by
Douglas Coupland
Bloomsbury USA, 09/25/2007
In Douglas Coupland's ingenious new novel – sort of a
Clerks-meets -
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – we meet Roger, a divorced, middle...
more
The Tell-tale Horse: A Novel
by
Rita Mae Brown
Ballantine Books, 09/25/2007
The hunt is on in this new installment of Rita Mae Brown's clever and engaging series. Only instead of chasing foxes into their dens, the locals must ...
more
The Winds of Marble Arch: And Other Stories
by
Connie Willis
Subterranean Press, 09/25/2007
"Variety is the soul of pleasure," And variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire ...
more
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
by
Michael J. Neufeld
Knopf, 09/25/2007
As one of the leading developers of rocket technology for the German army, von Braun yielded to pressure to join the Nazi Party in 1937 and ...
more
When One Man Dies
by
Dave White
Three Rivers, 09/25/2007
A hit and run. Simple as that. And suddenly harmless old Gerry Figuroa is lying dead on the asphalt. New Jersey cop turned private investigator ...
more
Written in Bone
by
Simon Beckett
Delacorte Press, 09/25/2007
Dr. David Hunter should be in London with the woman he loves and a past he can’t quite shake off. Instead, as a favor to a beleaguered cop, ...
more
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
by
Jenna Bush
HarperTeen, 09/28/2007
"I want to be in a house without shame. I am tired of the bruises that cover my body and the darkness in my heart. I wish my parents were here. ...
more
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
by
Tim Jeal
Yale University Press, 09/28/2007
Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of ...
more
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by
Janet Malcolm
Yale University Press, 09/28/2007
“How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary...
more
A Contract with the Earth
by
Newt Gingrich, Terry L. Maple, Edward O. Wilson
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 10/01/2007
Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
An Absolute Gentleman
by
R. M. Kinder
Counterpoint, 10/01/2007
Meet Arthur Blume: charming guy, small-town college English professor, struggling writer, and occasional murderer. In this chilling debut novel, ...
more
Broken Colors
by
Michele Zackheim
Europa Editions, 10/01/2007
Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to post-war Paris and the Italian countryside of Umbria, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
by
Cal Thomas, Bob Beckel
William Morrow, 10/01/2007
Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel show politicians of both stripes how to get beyond ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Every Secret Thing
by
Ann Tatlock
Bethany House Publishers, 10/01/2007
When Elizabeth Gunnar accepts a teaching position at the preparatory school she attended as a girl, she is returning to more than a place--to memories...
more
Exit Ghost
by
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 10/01/2007
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years ...
more
Igraine The Brave
by
Cornelia Funke
The Chicken House, 10/01/2007
Princess Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth is, life at the family castle is rather boring. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Air We Breathe
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/01/2007
In Fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Arrival
by
Shaun Tan
Arthur A. Levine Books, 10/01/2007
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most ...
more
Graphic Novels
The Devil's Whisper
by
Miyuki Miyabe
Kodansha International, 10/01/2007
Sixteen-year-old Mamoru Kusaka has recently moved to Tokyo to live with his aunt and uncle after the death of his mother. Just as he is beginning to ...
more
Voices
by
Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 10/01/2007
At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas ...
more
A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country
by
Larry J. Sabato
Walker & Company, 10/02/2007
Larry Sabato has one of the most visionary and fertile political minds in America. Like so many, he is increasingly alarmed at the growing dysfunction...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Skating Life
by
Dorothy Hamill, Deborah Amelon
Hyperion, 10/02/2007
After winning the Olympic Gold in 1976 at age 19, Dorothy Hamill was "America's Sweetheart" and an idol to millions. She swept the nation with her ...
more
Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
by
Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
Harmony Books, 10/02/2007
Bestselling author Cesar Millan takes his principles of dog psychology a step further, showing you how to develop the calm-assertive energy of a ...
more
Advice
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
by
Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster, 10/02/2007
Carter recounts his adventures over the last 25 years, including founding the Carter Center and putting it and himself to the task of public, useful ...
more
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
by
Jonathan Gould
Harmony Books, 10/02/2007
Nearly twenty years in the making,
Cant Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles ...
more
Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook
by
Jamie Oliver
Hyperion, 10/02/2007
Jamie Oliver believes this should have been his first book: a crash course in the "basics of food, shopping, and cooking with great ingredients. " ...
more
Advice
Dark of the Moon
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/02/2007
Virgil Flowers - tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's - had kicked around for a while before joining the ...
more
Ha'penny: A Story Of A World That Could Have Been
by
Jo Walton
Tom Doherty Associates, 10/02/2007
The brilliant but politically compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Halting State
by
Charles Stross
Ace Books, 10/02/2007
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
by
Garry Kasparov
Bloomsbury USA, 10/02/2007
One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a world chess champion can make us more successful in ...
more
Kissing Christmas Goodbye: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
by
M. C. Beaton
Minotaur Books, 10/02/2007
Agatha Raisin is bored. Her detective agency in the Cotswolds is thriving, but she'll scream if she has to deal with another missing cat or dog. Only ...
more
Nureyev: The Life
by
Julie Kavanagh
Pantheon Books, 10/02/2007
Drawing on previously undisclosed letters, diaries, home-movie footage, interviews with Nureyev’s inner circle, and her own dance background, ...
more
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
by
Alice Waters
Clarkson Potter, 10/02/2007
With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great ingredients,
The Art of Simple Food is an ...
more
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
by
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/02/2007
The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Empress's Tomb: Kiki Strike
by
Kirsten Miller
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 10/02/2007
Ananka is in danger of being sent to a remote boarding school; Kiki’s life (as always) is in danger, Betty seems to have found love in all the ...
more
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by
Susan Faludi
Metropolitan Books, 10/02/2007
In this most original examination of America’s post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country’s psychological response to the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
by
Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus
Houghton Mifflin, 10/04/2007
Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay "The Death of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Head and Heart: American Christianities
by
Garry Wills
Penguin, 10/04/2007
A landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history, from the Puritans to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President
by
Vicente Fox, Rob Allyn
Viking, 10/04/2007
When Vicente Fox swept into office in 2000, he broke the dictatorial one-party rule that had strangled Mexico for over seventy years. A native son of ...
more
Runnin' Down A Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
by
Tom Petty
Chronicle Books, 10/04/2007
For more than 30 years, Tom Petty has been writing and performing hit songs and rock and roll classics. He has sold more than 50 million albums ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Spud
by
John van de Ruit
Razorbill, 10/04/2007
It’s 1990. Apartheid is crumbling. Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. And Spud Milton—thirteen-year-old, prepubescent ...
more
The Dilemma
by
Penny Vincenzi
Overlook, 10/04/2007
All Francesca Channing has to do in order to keep her marriage alive, her children safe, her life intact, is to tell a lie. One simple, ...
more
The Seventh at St. Andrews: How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built the First New Course on Golf's Holy Soil in Nearly a Century
by
Scott Gummer
Gotham Books, 10/04/2007
David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on ...
more
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
by
Kathleen Flinn
Viking, 10/04/2007
In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been ...
more
The Slave Ship: A Human History
by
Marcus Rediker
Viking, 10/04/2007
The slave ship was a machine that manufactured modernity. As it moved across the Atlantic, the world changed. It joined Europe, Africa, and the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
by
Iain Banks
MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 10/05/2007
Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel. The Wopuld ...
more
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
by
Frances Moore Lappe
Small Planet Media, 10/08/2007
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity & Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe--author of fifteen books, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clapton: The Autobiography
by
Eric Clapton
Broadway Books, 10/09/2007
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More ...
more
Fatal Revenant
by
Stephen R. Donaldson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/09/2007
Linden Avery, who loved Thomas Covenant and watched him die, has returned to the Land in search of her kidnapped son, Jeremiah. As
Fatal Revenant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fearless
by
Tim Lott
Candlewick Press, 10/09/2007
In the not-too-distant future, the world is safe from terrorists, the streets are clean, and girls labeled "juvies" or "mindcrips" have been hidden ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Great Joy
by
Kate Dicamillo
Candlewick Press, 10/09/2007
It is just before Christmas when an organ grinder and monkey appear on
the street corner outside Frances’s apartment. Frances can see them from
...
more
Literary Fiction
I Am America: And So Can You!
by
Stephen Colbert
Grand Central Publishing, 10/09/2007
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. ...
more
Mark's Story: The Gospel According to Peter
by
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/09/2007
Mark chronicles the growth of the early Christian church, the struggles of Jesus' followers, and the persecution they endured from a hostile world. ...
more
Historical Fiction
Measuring the World
by
Daniel Kehlmann
Vintage, 10/09/2007
Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mozart's Sister
by
Rita Charbonnier
Crown, 10/09/2007
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affectionately called Nannerl by her family, could play the piano with an otherworldly skill from the time she was...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Gift: A Novel
by
Richard Paul Evans
Simon & Schuster, 10/09/2007
Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
by
A. J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster, 10/09/2007
Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and ...
more
World Without End
by
Ken Follett
Dutton, 10/09/2007
World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Never Enough
by
Joe McGinniss
Simon & Schuster, 10/14/2007
Never Enough is the harrowing true story of these two brothers, Robert and Andrew Kissel, who grew up wanting to own the world but instead wound up ...
more
The Conscience of a Liberal
by
Paul Krugman
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/15/2007
With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, "the heir apparent to Galbraith" (Alan Blinder) and, today's most widely read economist, studies the past ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
20th Century Ghosts
by
Joe Hill
William Morrow, 10/16/2007
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the ...
more
Air Apparent: An exhilerating all-new Xanth adventure
by
Piers Anthony
Tor Books, 10/16/2007
When the Good Magician Humfrey’s son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship
by
Martin Gilbert
Henry Holt and Company, 10/16/2007
Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason and sent to Devil...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons
by
Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark
Walker & Company, 10/16/2007
On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan - a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland - stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror
by
Craig Murray
Scribner, 10/16/2007
Craig Murray is no ordinary diplomat. He enjoys a drink or three, and if it's in the company of a pretty girl, so much the better. Murray's scant ...
more
Escape
by
Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Broadway Books, 10/16/2007
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril...
more
Biography/Memoir
Fleet of Worlds
by
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Tor Books, 10/16/2007
A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy’s core has unleashed a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The Citizens flee, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kids Are Americans Too
by
Bill O'Reilly, Charles Flowers
William Morrow, 10/16/2007
In his latest book for young people, O’Reilly -- an award-winning broadcast news journalist, husband, father of two and author of the number one ...
more
Advice
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by
Oliver Sacks
Knopf, 10/16/2007
Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Pandora's Daughter
by
Iris Johansen
St. Martin's Press, 10/16/2007
For as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head---voices that bring her to the ...
more
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by
David Michaelis
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/16/2007
Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now...
more
The Abstinence Teacher
by
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Press, 10/16/2007
Ruth Ramsey is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school. She believes that "pleasure is good, shame is bad, and knowledge is power." Ruth'...
more
The Almost Moon: A Novel
by
Alice Sebold
Little Brown & Company, 10/16/2007
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she...
more
The Christmas Promise: Christmas Hope Series #4
by
Donna VanLiere
St. Martin's Press, 10/16/2007
Donna VanLiere’s books movingly portray ordinary people reaching for more meaningful lives. In
The Christmas Promise, she follows two seemingly ...
more
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by
Alex Ross
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/16/2007
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, ...
more
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
by
J. Craig Venter
Viking, 10/18/2007
In 1984 Craig Venter joined the National Institute of Health, where he introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form ...
more
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
by
Stacy A. Cordery
Viking, 10/18/2007
"Princess Alice" (daughter of Teddy Roosevelt) was a tempestuous teenager. Smoking, gambling, and dressing flamboyantly, she flouted social ...
more
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice
by
Scott Adams
Portfolio, 10/18/2007
Despite some fans who wish he would “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!,” Adams now offers more than 150 short pieces on every slice of ...
more
Thirteen Reasons Why
by
Jay Asher
Razorbill, 10/18/2007
Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded ...
more
A Lick of Frost: Meredith Gentry, Book 6
by
Laurell K. Hamilton
Ballantine Books, 10/23/2007
The suspenseful and sexy saga of Meredith Gentry continues. Her aunt, the dark Queen Andais, has commanded Merry, who is half-mortal, half-faerie ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back!
by
Michael Winerip
Candlewick Press, 10/23/2007
For overprogrammed middle-grader Adam Canfield, waking up to a snow day is a dream come true — a chance to sleep late, put off planning the next ...
more
Literary Fiction
Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
by
Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
Random House, 10/23/2007
Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Book of the Dead: Kay Scarpetta, No. 15
by
Patricia Cornwell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/23/2007
The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new ...
more
Darkness Falls
by
Kyle Mills
Vanguard Press, 10/23/2007
Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend and he isn't happy when an oil company executive ...
more
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
by
John Updike
Knopf, 10/23/2007
John Updike’s sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays ...
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For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
by
Sally Bedell Smith
Random House, 10/23/2007
During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined ...
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Biography/Memoir
Foreigners
by
Caryl Phillips
Knopf, 10/23/2007
A hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Now and Then
by
Robert B. Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/23/2007
Spenser knows something's amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy's aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their ...
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Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
by
Martin Goodman
Knopf, 10/23/2007
A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.
In 70 C.E., after a four-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Slam
by
Nick Hornby
Putnam Juvenile, 10/23/2007
Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend- because by the time she tells him ...
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Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart
by
Gary Zukav
Free Press, 10/23/2007
Told in a beautifully simple, even poetic style,
Soul to Soul is divided into two sections: Part One, “Soul Subjects,” consists of over 60 ...
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The Prayer Chest: A Novel About Receiving All of Life's Riches
by
August Gold, Joel Fotinos
Doubleday, 10/23/2007
Joseph Hutchinson is a man who knows the reality of tragedy all too well; his life has been filled with misfortune and adversity. A widowed father of ...
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The Queen of Bedlam
by
Robert McCammon
Pocket Books, 10/23/2007
The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Who snuffed out the ...
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Chat
by
Archer Mayor
Grand Central Publishing, 10/25/2007
News travels fast in the small state of Vermont. In this tight-knit society, police officers and investigators proudly maintain a kinship that ...
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Elton: The Biography
by
David Buckley
Chicago Review Press, 10/28/2007
One of music’s true global superstars and most admired figures, Elton John has sold more than 150 million albums worldwide to date, and continues...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by
Daniel Walker Howe
Oxford University Press, 10/29/2007
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Christmas Beginning: A Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 10/30/2007
Superintendent Runcorn - who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss - is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, ...
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A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
by
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books, 10/30/2007
Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas
by
Suzanne Brockmann
Random House, 10/30/2007
The pair plan a quiet, intimate ceremony, to be witnessed by family and close friends from the FBI, SEAL Team Sixteen, and Troubleshooters, ...
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Thrillers
American Born Chinese
by
Gene Luen Yang
First Second, 10/30/2007
A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang,
American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated ...
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
by
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 10/30/2007
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Ellis guides...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite Holiday
by
Paula Deen
Simon & Schuster, 10/30/2007
There's no holiday Paula Deen loves better than Christmas, when she opens her home to family and friends, and traditions old and new make the days ...
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Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
by
Ed Sikov
Henry Holt and Company, 10/30/2007
In
Dark Victory, the noted film critic and biographer Ed Sikov paints the most detailed picture ever delivered of this intelligent, opinionated, and ...
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Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall
by
Amy Chua
Doubleday, 10/30/2007
In a little over two centuries, America has grown from a regional power to a superpower, and to what is today called a hyperpower. But can America ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dreamsongs: Volume I
by
George R.R. Martin
Bantam Books, 10/30/2007
Gathered here, in Volume I, are the very best of George R.R. Martin’s early works, including never-before-published fan pieces, his Hugo, Nebula,...
more
Short Stories
Everlasting
by
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/30/2007
Once, Abrielle's name was on the lips of every unwed nobleman in London as a proud exceptional lady coveted for her bearing, her breeding, her wit, ...
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Romance
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by
Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/30/2007
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy,
Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano’s gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hidden Moon: An Inspector O Novel, #2
by
James Church
Minotaur Books, 10/30/2007
In
Hidden Moon, Inspector O returns from a mission abroad to find his new police commander waiting at his office door. There has been a bank robbery--...
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Home to Holly Springs: The First of the Father Tim Novels
by
Jan Karon
Viking, 10/30/2007
Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted Episcopal ...
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
by
Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury USA, 10/30/2007
More than just a companion to the hugely popular show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book...
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Protect and Defend: A Thriller
by
Vince Flynn
Simon & Schuster, 10/30/2007
In
Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No ...
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Ronnie Wood: The Autobiography
by
Ronnie Wood
St. Martin's Press, 10/30/2007
The first of his family to be born on dry land, Ronnie Wood came from a family of water gypsies and was raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport...
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Biography/Memoir
The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
by
Julie M. Fenster
Palgrave Macmillan, 10/30/2007
The year 1856 was a pivotal one for this country, witnessing the birth of the Republican Party as we know it. But it was also a critical year in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Heir
by
Barbara Taylor Bradford
St. Martin's Press, 10/30/2007
At the age of thirty-three, Edward Deravenel, having survived harrowing years of betrayal, threats from ruthless enemies, countless lovers, and a war ...
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
by
Jacques Cousteau, Susan Schiefelbein
Bloomsbury USA, 10/30/2007
In this magnificent last book, finally available for the first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply informed philosophy about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Quiet Girl
by
Peter Hoeg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/30/2007
Set in Denmark in the here and now,
The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann...
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The Race
by
Richard North Patterson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/30/2007
Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is locked in a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of ...
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The Snow Empress:: A Thriller
by
Laura Joh Rowland
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/30/2007
Japan, 1699. On a moonlit night in Ezogashima, the northernmost island of Japan, a woman is running through the forest when an arrow zooms out of the ...
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Three Sisters: A Charlie Moon Mystery
by
James D. Doss
Minotaur Books, 10/30/2007
Colorado rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon is taking a night off to play some poker with his best friend, Scott Parris, Granite Creek’...
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Write it When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald Ford
by
Thomas M. DeFrank
Penguin, 10/30/2007
In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over 16 years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Gerald Ford's ...
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Biography/Memoir
You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty
by
Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Free Press, 10/30/2007
The body is the most fascinating machine ever created, and nobody talks about it in ways that are as illuminating and compelling as Dr. Michael Roizen...
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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
by
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley
Penguin, 11/01/2007
This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the ...
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by
Paula Kamen
Da Capo Press, 11/01/2007
Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn't seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, ...
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Last Night at the Lobster
by
Stewart O'Nan
Viking, 11/01/2007
Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, the Red Lobster hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But ...
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Nigella Express: 130 Recipes For Good Food, Fast.
by
Nigella Lawson
Hyperion, 11/01/2007
This is the first time that we've ever launched a cookbook alongside a brand new show. Nigella's ratings are through the roof, and she was recently ...
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Advice
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by
Jonah Lehrer
Houghton Mifflin, 11/01/2007
A look at how five writers, a painter, a composer, and a chef discovered the truth about the mind.
In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to ...
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
by
Bill Bryson
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/01/2007
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a ...
more
Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins
by
Tom Perkins
Gotham Books, 11/01/2007
Known for his idiosyncratic ideas and golden touch, Tom Perkins has always been one of the business world's most intriguing figures. But his legacy ...
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Week from Sunday
by
Dorothy Garlock
Grand Central Publishing, 11/02/2007
Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a ...
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Classics for Pleasure
by
Michael Dirda
Harcourt, 11/05/2007
This is not your father’s list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world...
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Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
by
Taylor Clark
Little Brown & Company, 11/05/2007
Starbucked will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
by
Tom Brokaw
Random House, 11/06/2007
“Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. While Americans...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA
by
Edward Ball
Simon & Schuster, 11/06/2007
In 2000, after a decade in New York City, Ball bought a house in Charleston, South Carolina, home to his father's family for generations, and ...
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Independents Day: Awakening the National Spirit
by
Lou Dobbs
Viking, 11/06/2007
In
Independents Day: Awakening the National Spirit, Lou Dobbs examines the public policy choices over the past thirty years that have eroded ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Love Over Scotland: A 44 Scotland Street Novel
by
Alexander Mccall Smith
Knopf, 11/06/2007
Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to research the domestic economy of contemporary pirate households. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, ...
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Rhett Butler's People
by
Donald McCaig
St. Martin's Press, 11/06/2007
Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate,
Rhett Butler’s People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great ...
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Historical Fiction
Sage-Ing While Age-Ing
by
Shirley MacLaine
Atria Books, 11/06/2007
Over the course of ten international bestsellers including
The Camin and
Out on a Limb, Shirley MacLaine has firmly established herself as a fearless,...
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Biography/Memoir
Stone Cold
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 11/06/2007
Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path. ...
more
The Chase
by
Clive Cussler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/06/2007
April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died ...
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The Fall of Troy: A Novel
by
Peter Ackroyd
Doubleday, 11/06/2007
Heinrich Obermann, a celebrated German archaeologist, has uncovered the ancient ruins of Troy on a Turkish hillside. He fervently believes that his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Them: A Novel
by
Nathan McCall
Simon & Schuster, 11/06/2007
A compelling story set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood known for its main street, Auburn Avenue, which once was regarded as the "richest Negro ...
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Third Degree
by
Greg Iles
Simon & Schuster, 11/06/2007
Laurel Shields, thirty-five and mother of two, awakens to find that her husband, Warren, a prominent local physician, is not in bed with her. Creeping...
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Tipperary: A Novel
by
Frank Delaney
Random House, 11/06/2007
Born into a respected Irish-Anglo family in 1860, Charles loves his native land and its long-suffering but irrepressible people. As a healer, he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Why Mermaids Sing: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by
C. S. Harris
NAL, 11/06/2007
In 1811, murder has jarred London's elite. The sons of prominent families have been found at dawn in public places, their bodies mutilated and strange...
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
by
Dave Isay
Penguin, 11/08/2007
From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps - the largest oral history project in the nation's history - presents a tapestry of American ...
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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage
by
Nicholas Wapshott
Sentinel, 11/08/2007
It’s well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
by
Robert Hass
Ecco, 11/09/2007
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Bible: A Biography
by
Karen Armstrong
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/10/2007
As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Boy Named Shel:: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein
by
Lisa Rogak
Thomas Dunne Books, 11/13/2007
Few authors are as beloved as Shel Silverstein. His inimitable drawings and comic poems have become the bedtime staples of millions of children and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Transcendentalism: A History
by
Philip F Gura
Hill and Wang, 11/13/2007
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Augie's Quest: One Man's Journey from Success to Significance
by
Augie Nieto, T.R. Pearson
Bloomsbury USA, 11/13/2007
What happens to “orphan” diseases that aren’t big enough profit centers for the pharmaceutical industry or get caught in the web of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Confessor: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 3
by
Terry Goodkind
Tor Books, 11/13/2007
Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Double Cross
by
James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 11/13/2007
Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to ...
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Thrillers
Henry James: The Mature Master
by
Sheldon M. Novick
Random House, 11/13/2007
Using hundreds of letters only recently made available and taking a fresh look at primary materials, Novick reveals a man utterly unlike the passive, ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Castaways
by
Iain Lawrence
Random House Childrens Publishing, 11/13/2007
Adrift at Sea, Tom Tin and his four convict companions are only too glad when they come upon a deserted ship. The boys clamber aboard, not knowing ...
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Literary Fiction
The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Gang of True Believers Hijacked America, Started the Iraq War, and Corrupted the Presidency
by
Craig Unger
Simon & Schuster, 11/13/2007
Conventional wisdom has it that the Middle East crisis is the product of a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.
The Fall of the House of...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Letters of Noel Coward
by
edited by Barry Day
Knopf, 11/13/2007
The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noël Coward, a unique and ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Outcasts
by
L.S. Matthews
Random House Childrens Publishing, 11/13/2007
Four of the Outcasts don't really participate in class, and all five could care less about a group activity, so the fact that all of them actually go ...
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Literary Fiction
The Rebels: Sons of Texas, Trilogy Part III
by
Elmer Kelton
St. Martin's Press, 11/13/2007
It is the mid 1830s and a growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution. In the midst of the turmoil are the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
by
Ronald Kessler
Crown Forum, 11/13/2007
Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counter terrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by
Orlando Figes
Henry Holt and Company, 11/13/2007
Moving from the Revolution of 1917 to the death of Stalin and beyond, Orlando Figes re-creates the moral maze in which Russians found themselves, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush
by
Thomas Oliphant
St. Martin's Press, 11/13/2007
The problem wasn’t just Iraq.
It didn’t even start with Iraq.
It was bigger than Iraq.
In fact, it was everything George W. Bush touched,...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Signed Mata Hari: A Novel
by
Yannick Murphy
Little Brown & Company, 11/14/2007
In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The ...
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Historical Fiction
The Critic: The Second of the Enzo Files
by
Peter May
Poisoned Pen Press, 11/15/2007
Gil Petty, the world's number one wine critic, went missing during a tasting tour of the little-known wine region of Gaillac. Three years ago, his ...
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by
Steve Martin
Scribner, 11/20/2007
This book is a memoir, but it is also an illuminating guidebook to stand-up from one of our two or three greatest comedians. Though Martin is reticent...
more
Good Dog. Stay.
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 11/20/2007
“The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna ...
more
Biography/Memoir
All Seated on the Ground
by
Connie Willis
Subterranean Press, 11/26/2007
And now it's nearly Christmas, and the commission assigned to establish communications is at their wits' end. They've resorted to taking the aliens to...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
by
Peter Silver
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/26/2007
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A View of the Ocean
by
Jan De Hartog
Pantheon Books, 11/27/2007
She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and pastor, simple, bighearted and big-muscled, who ...
more
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
by
Nadine Gordimer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/27/2007
In this collection of new stories Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the...
more
Dreamsongs: Volume II
by
George R.R. Martin
Bantam Books, 11/27/2007
Whether writing about werewolves, wizards, or outer space, George R.R. Martin is renowned for his versatility and expansive talent, highlighted in ...
more
Short Stories
Person of Interest
by
Theresa Schwegel
Minotaur Books, 11/27/2007
Leslie McHugh is married to an undercover cop. She thinks she knows what it’s like to share her life with a man who spends his days living a lie,...
more
Thrillers
Thrillers
Bamboo: Essays and Criticism
by
William Boyd
Bloomsbury USA, 11/28/2007
“Plant one bamboo shoot—cut bamboo for the rest of your life.” William Boyd’s prolific, fruitful career is a testament to this old...
more
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full
by
Conrad Black
Perseus Publishing, 11/28/2007
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic ...
more
Rumpole Misbehaves: A Novel
by
John Mortimer
Penguin, 11/29/2007
Horace Rumpole, Hero of the Downtrodden, Returns to Fight the Good Fight-For Anti-Social Behavior!
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) may be the ...
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Literary Fiction
Antony and Cleopatra
by
Colleen McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 12/04/2007
Caesar is dead, and Rome is, again, divided. Lepidus has retreated to Africa, while Antony rules the opulent East, and Octavian claims the West, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Opening Atlantis
by
Harry Turtledove
Penguin, 12/04/2007
New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove has intrigued readers with such thought-provoking "what if..." scenarios as a conquered Elizabethan...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
T is for Trespass: Kinsey Millhone Mysteries
by
Sue Grafton
Penguin, 12/04/2007
In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton's
T is for Trespas is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. ...
more
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (25th Anniversary Edition)
by
Lewis Hyde
Vintage, 12/04/2007
By now a modern classic,
The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly ...
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A Bridge to the Stars
by
Henning Mankell
Random House Childrens Publishing, 12/11/2007
12-year-old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of the house to look for a lonely dog he has ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Venetian Betrayal
by
Steve Berry
Ballantine Books, 12/11/2007
In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final ...
more
Watchman: A Novel
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 12/11/2007
Miles Flint is a spy who has been making some serious mistakes. His last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, and after ...
more
Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Think and Grow Rich Series)
by
Napoleon Hill
TarcherPerigee, 12/15/2007
Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The ...
more
Advice
Hand of Evil
by
J.A. Jance
Touchstone, 12/18/2007
With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's dragged along a deserted stretch of San Juan Road in ...
more
Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel
by
Pascal Mercier
Grove Press, 12/21/2007
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our hared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and...
more
A Pale Horse: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 12/26/2007
In the ruins of Yorkshire's Fountains Abbey lies the body of a man wrapped in a cloak, the face covered by a gas mask. Next to him is a book on ...
more
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by
Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury USA, 12/26/2007
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang “the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years.” With
Bad ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Diablerie: A Novel
by
Walter Mosley
Bloomsbury USA, 12/26/2007
Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last Call: A Jack Swyteck novel
by
James Grippando
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/26/2007
Many years ago, Jack Swyteck saved Theo Knight's life. Theo grew up on the streets of Miami's roughest neighborhood and lost his mother to a violent ...
more
Salt River
by
James Sallis
Walker & Company, 12/26/2007
As
Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner’s amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes ...
more
The Sweet Far Thing
by
Libba Bray
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 12/26/2007
It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a
laudanum addict, Gemma has...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family
by
Jonathan Carr
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/26/2007
A family saga as riveting as any opera, and a matchless mirror of Germany’s rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things—...
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There's No Place Like Here
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Cecelia Ahern
Hyperion, 12/26/2007
Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her ...
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Touchstone
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Laurie R. King
Bantam Books, 12/26/2007
It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s life, leaving him with an excruciating sensitivity to the potential of human ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Troy: Fall of Kings
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David Gemmell, Stella Gemmell
Random House, 12/26/2007
On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth ofGlobal Warming
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Mark Bowen
Penguin, 12/27/2007
Preeminent climatologist and leading NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen has been studying climate for over three decades. It was his testimony to a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Diary of a Bad Year
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J. M. Coetzee
Penguin, 12/27/2007
Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics—a new topic for Coetzee—and explores the role of the writer in our times with an ...
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
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David Cay Johnston
Portfolio, 12/27/2007
How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans?
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync?
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Seth Godin
Penguin, 12/27/2007
As traditional marketing fades away, the new tools seem irresistible. But they don't work as well for boring brands ("meatballs") that might still be ...
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Other
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
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Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Riverhead Books, 12/27/2007
Nítido knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn't know where, or why his family left. Raised in the United States by his immigrant parents, ...
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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
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Anthony Lewis
Basic Books, 12/28/2007
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
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Bill Strickland
Currency, 12/31/2007
Over the past thirty years, Bill Strickland has been transforming the lives of thousands of people through the creation of Manchester Bidwell, a jobs ...
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