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New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on these lists. Books for kids and teens (fiction and nonfiction) are also listed.
February 2007
Nonfiction
- Family Romance: A Love Story
Author: Lanchester, John
Publisher: Putnam $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780399153006 Date: 2007
PW
Although his family may have been atypical, the dynamics of family life and their patterns are instantly recognizable in this memoir by acclaimed novelist Lanchester. Part detective work, part remarkable evocation of character, this is, above all, compelling storytelling.
Updated 12.6.06 - Stacked: A 32ddd Report from the Front
Author: Seligson, Susan
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781596911178 Date: 2007PW
An intrepid 32-DDD writer takes readers on a journey through a culture where breasts have come to stand for all that is woman. Seligson writes throughout with the wisdom and humor of a woman who knows what it is to wield body parts so powerful they can make men crash cars.
Updated 10.31.06 - Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Liife
Author: Shawn, Allen
Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670038428 Date: 2007PWBooklist
In this memoir of enormous bravery, a member of one of New York's premier literary families delivers a droll, inquisitive, and poignant examination of his life with agoraphobia.
Updated 1.16.07
Fiction
- Lost City Radio
Author: Alacron, Daniel
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060594794 Date: 2007KirkusLJBooklist
Alarcon's highly anticipated new novel is the story of three people searching for answers in a country ravaged by war. War by Candlelight, the author's debut story collection, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN Hemingway Award.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 12.28.06 - Fieldwork
Author: Berlinksi, Mischa
Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 9780374299163 Date: 2007Kirkus
Vivid, passionate, funny, deeply researched, and page-turningly plotted, this novel--set in northern Thailand--is a daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.
Updated 10.25.06 - The Time It Takes To Fall
Author: Dean, Margaret Lazarus
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780743297226 Date: 2007Kirkus
In January 1986, the "Challenger" disaster shocked the world. The ensuing investigation threatens to tear Dolores Haye's family and community apart. She must find a way to reconstruct what went wrong both in her family and at NASA, without losing sight of her dreams.
Updated 1.27.07 - Napoleon's Pyramids
Author: Dietrich, William
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060848323 Date: 2007PWLJ
An 18th-century explorer travels to Egypt as part of Napoleon's great expedition, where he stumbles into a deadly 6,000-year-old mystery. Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is also the author of The Scourge of God and Hadrian's Wall.
Updated 1.17.06 - The Dead Fathers Club
Author: Haig, Matt
Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780670038336 Date: 2007PWKirkusBooklist
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. It all begins when his dad appears as a ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. Philip learns the truth about ghosts: the only people who end up ghosts are MURDERED. So begins Philip's quest to avenge his dad. Hilariously funny, it is full of poignant insights into the strange workings of the world seen through the eyes of a child.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Ghosts | Shakespearean Stars
Updated 12.1.06 - Heart-Shaped Box
Author: Hill, Joe
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061147937 Date: 2007LJPW
Sooner or later the dead catch up, as Judas Coyne buys a ghost for sale on the Internet. This pulse-pounding supernatural thriller is a remarkable debut novel from a blazing new talent.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | Ghosts
Updated 12.27.06 - In the Country of Men
Author: Matar, Hisham
Publisher: Dial $ 22 ISBN: 9780385340427 Date: 2007KirkusPWLJ
In 1979 Libya, nine-year-old Suleiman endures his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. His father is away on business (again), and Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand in this novel that offers a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 10.25.06 - The Fate of Mice
Author: Palwick, Susan
Publisher: Tachyon $ 14.95 ISBN: 9781892391421 Date: 2007PW
The fantastic and magical realities humans create and their often terrifying consequences are examined in this unflinching collection of work from a noted science fiction writer. A determined mother attempts to break the fairy tale spell that confines her daughters, a female wolf learns that loving a man can be quite dangerous, and a manipulative politician harvests zombies in these stories that are beautiful and brutal, but maintain a modicum of hope for the future.
Updated 1.27.07 - By the Time You Read This
Author: Blunt, Giles
Publisher: Holt $ 19.95 ISBN: 9780805080612 Date: 2007KirkusBooklistLJ
In Blunt's most masterful and thrilling novel yet, Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife's tragic death.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 2.5.07 - Night of the Living Deb: A Debutante Dropout Mystery
Author: McBride, Susan
Publisher: Avon $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780060845551 Date: 2007
In the fourth entry of McBride's sassy series, former Dallas debutante Andy Kendricks must find the truth behind the disappearance of her boyfriend, attorney Brian Malone, who was last seen leaving a bachelor party with a hot female body that is later found in Brian's car, stone-cold dead.
Updated 1.27.07 - Collaborator of Bethlehem
Author: Rees, Matt Beynon
Publisher: Soho $ 22 ISBN: 9781569474426 Date: 2007PW
"The Collaborator of Bethlehem is the best-and the rarest-sort of mystery: exciting and compelling, but it is also a deeply moving story that will, for many readers, shed much needed light on the conditions in the Palestinian territories. Matt Beynon Rees's ability to blend the political and the emotional is reminiscent of Graham Greene." -David Liss, author of The Ethical Assassin
Updated 11.27.06 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Selznick, Brian
Publisher: Scholastic $ 29.95 ISBN: 9780439813785 Date: 2006PWKirkus
Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel form to create an entirely new reading experience in this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.
Ages: 9-12 Category: Fiction | Mystery
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