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Some of the major hardcover titles (and a few paperbacks) scheduled for release in the U.S.
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Hotlists 2008
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November
Fiction
Arctic Drift by Clive and Dirk Cussler
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver
Cross Country by James Patterson
Divine Justice by David Baldacci
Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Every Now and Then by Karen Kingsbury
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Private Patient by P. D. James
Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb
Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
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Hotlists: New and Notable Books
Notable Nonfiction 2008
Page Modified: October 1, 2008
| AUTHOR | TITLE | DATE | STARS | ISBN | PUBLISHER | PRICE | SUBJECT | Overbooked Stars Update |
| Cooper, Helene | The House at Sugar Beach | Sep-08 | Kirkus | 9780743266246 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Kennedy, Pagan | The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories | Sep-08 | PW | 9780977679935 | Santa Fe Writers Project | $14.00 | Essays | |
| Burk, Kathleen | Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning | Oct-08 | LJ | 9780871139719 | PGW | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Bishop, Bill | The Big Sort: How Living Near People Just Like You Is Pulling America Apart | May-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9780618689354 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Bragg, Rick | The Prince Of Frogtown | May-08 | PW | 9781400040407 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Brenner, Marie | Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780374173524 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Clarke, Thurston | The Last Campaign | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780805077926 | Henry Holt & Co | $25.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Coates, Ta-nehesi | The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, a Son, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood | May-08 | Booklist, Kirkus | 9780385520362 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $22.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Creed, Patrick | Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780891419051 | Ballantine Books | $27.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Crystal, David | By Hook or By Crook | May-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9781590200612 | Overlook | $27.95 | Language | 4/21/2008 |
| Dawidoff, Nicholas | The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Memoir | May-08 | LJ, PW | 9780375400285 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Dawn, Karen | Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals | May-08 | PW | 9780061351853 | Harpercollins | $19.95 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| De Blasi, Marlena | That Summer In Sicily: A Love Story | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780345497659 | Ballantine Books | $24.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Edison, Mike | I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780865479647 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Farley, Tom, Jr. | The Chris Farley Show | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780670019236 | Penguin Group USA | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fuller, Alexandra | The Legend of Colton H. Bryant | May-08 | Booklist | 9781594201837 | Penguin Group USA | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Gallagher, Tim | Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century | May-08 | Booklist | 9780618805754 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Gilmour, David | The Film Club | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780446199292 | Twelve | $21.99 | Film Criticism | 5/2/2008 |
| Gollner, Adam Leith | The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure | May-08 | PW | 9780743296946 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Hall, Lincoln | Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest | May-08 | Booklist | 9781585426461 | Tarcher | $24.95 | Biography | 5/2/2008 |
| Halpern, Sue | Can't Remember What I Forgot: Closing in on a Cure for Memory Loss | May-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780307406743 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Hollis, Leo | London Rising; The Men Who Made Modern London | May-08 | Booklist | 9780802716323 | Walker | $26.99 | History | 5/2/2008 |
| Hood, Ann | Comfort: A Journey Through Grief | May-08 | PW | 9780393064568 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $19.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Horwitz, Gordon J. | Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City | May-08 | PW | 9780674027992 | Harvard Univ Pr | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Iacoboni, Marco | Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others | May-08 | LJ | 9780374210175 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Iacoboni, Marco | Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others | May-08 | Booklist, LJ | 978037421075 | FSG | $25.00 | Science | |
| Jennings, Dana | Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music | May-08 | PW, Booklist | 9780865479609 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Klein, Maury | The Power Makers: America and the Electrical Revolution | May-08 | PW , Kirkus | 9781596914124 | St Martins Pr | $29.99 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Kynaston, David | Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 | May-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780802716934 | St Martins Pr | $45.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Manguso, Sarah | The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir | May-08 | PW | 9780374280123 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $22.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Marcus, Leonard C. | Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature | May-08 | Booklist | 9780395674079 | Houghton Mifflin | $28.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Montville, Leigh | The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780385520331 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $26.00 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Moore, Honor | The Bishop's Daughter | May-08 | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780393059847 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Muller, Gilbert H. | William Cullen Bryant: Author of America | May-08 | Booklist | 9780791474679 | State Univ of New York Pr | $30.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Neiman, Susan | Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists | May-08 | Booklist | 9780151011971 | Harcourt | $27.00 | Philosphy | 4/21/2008 |
| Nugent, Benjamin | American Nerd: The Story of My People | May-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780743288019 | Simon & Schuster | $20.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Perlstein, Rick | Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon, 1965-1972 | May-08 | PW | 9780743243025 | Simon & Schuster | $37.50 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Rennebohm, Craig | Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets | May-08 | PW | 9780807000427 | Houghton Mifflin | $23.95 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Rothenberg, David | Thousand-Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound | May-08 | Booklist | 9780465071289 | Perseus Books Group | $27.50 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Salamon, Julie | Hospital | May-08 | PW | 9781594201714 | Penguin Group USA | $25.95 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Schrag, Ariel | Potential | May-08 | Booklist, Kirkus | 9781416552352 | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Sheeler, Jim | Final Salute | May-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781594201653 | Penguin Group USA | $25.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Smith, Larry | Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780393062342 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $26.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Sorensen, Ted | Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History | May-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780060798710 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Steinmeyer, Jim | Charles Fort | May-08 | LJ | 9781585426409 | Tarcher | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Swift, Will | The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm: A Thousand Days in London, 1938-1940 | May-08 | Kirkus | 9780061173561 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Thirlwell, Adam | The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles | May-08 | PW | 9780374137229 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $30.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Tian, Hao Jiang | Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met | May-08 | LJ | 9780470056417 | Wiley | $27.95 | Music | 5/2/2008 |
| Walters, Barbara | Audition: A Memoir | May-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780307266460 | Random House Inc | $29.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Wilentz, Sean | The Age of Reagan: 1974-2008 | May-08 | PW | 9780060744809 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Winchester, Simon | The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom | May-08 | PW, LJ | 9780060884598 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Zakaria, Fareed | Post-American World | May-08 | PW | 9780393062359 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Blackmon, Douglas A. | Slavery by Another Name: The Final Chapter of American Slavery 1865-1945 | Mar-08 | PW | 9780385506250 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Bracewell, Michael | Re-Make Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music | Mar-08 | LJ | 9780306814006 | Perseus Books Group | $17.95 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Chambers, Paul | Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World | Mar-08 | LJ | 9781586421410 | Random House Inc | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Cummings, Claire Hope | Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds | Mar-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780807085806 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Donovan, James | A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn- the Last Great Battle of the American West | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9780316155786 | Little Brown & Co | $26.99 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Duras, Marguerite | Wartime Writings, 1943-1949 | Mar-08 | PW | 9781595582003 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fletcher, Martin | Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9780312371180 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fritzsche, Peter | Life and Death in the Third Reich | Mar-08 | LJ | 9780674027930 | Harvard Univ Pr | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Giddings, Paula J. | Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching | Mar-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780060519216 | Harpercollins | $35.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Glatthaar, Joseph T. | General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9780684827872 | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Goodison, Lorna | From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island | Mar-08 | PW | 9780061337550 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Grant, Richard | God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre | Mar-08 | PW | 9781416534402 | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Greene, Gayle | Insomniac | Mar-08 | PW, LJ | 9780520246300 | Univ of California Pr | $29.95 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Hajdu, David | The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America | Mar-08 | PW | 9780374187675 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Graphic Works | 4/21/2008 |
| Hari, Daoud | The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9781400067442 | Random House Inc | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Hastings, Max | Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9780307263513 | Random House Inc | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Hedges, Chris | I Don't Believe in Atheists | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9781416567950 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Huler, Scott | No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9781400082827 | Crown | $24.95 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Iyer, Pico | The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Xivth Dalai Lama | Mar-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780307267603 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Kaiser, David | The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy | Mar-08 | LJ, PW | 9780674027664 | Harvard Univ Pr | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Kaku, Michio | Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9780385520690 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $26.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Kertzer, David I. | Amalia's Tale: An Impoverished Peasant Woman, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice | Mar-08 | PW | 9780618551064 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.00 | Law | 4/21/2008 |
| King, David | Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna | Mar-08 | LJ | 9780307337160 | Random House Inc | $27.50 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| King, Gilbert | The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South | Mar-08 | Kirkus, LJ | 9780465002658 | Perseus Books Group | $26.00 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Lane, Charles | The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction | Mar-08 | PW | 9780805083422 | Henry Holt & Co | $27.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Lee, Jennifer 8 | The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food | Mar-08 | PW, LJ | 9780446580076 | Grand Central Pub | $24.99 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| McDougall, Walter A. | Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 | Mar-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9780060567514 | Harpercollins | $34.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| McKibben, Bill | The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life | Mar-08 | LJ, PW | 9780805076271 | Henry Holt & Co | $18.00 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Nagel, Susan | Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter | Mar-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9781596910577 | St Martins Pr | $39.99 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Parker, Matthew | Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time--The Building of the Panama Canal | Mar-08 | PW | 9780385515344 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Price, John | Man Killed by Pheasant: And Other Kinships | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9780306816055 | Perseus Books Group | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Read, Anthony | The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle With Bolshevism | Mar-08 | PW | 9780393061246 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Rothkopf, David | Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making | Mar-08 | PW | 9780374272104 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Skinner, E. Benjamin | A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9780743290074 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Stape, John | The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad | Mar-08 | Booklist | 9781400044498 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Tharps, Lori L. | Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain | Mar-08 | PW | 9780743296472 | Pocket Books | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Torgovnick, Kate | Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for college Cheerleading's Ultimate Prize | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9781416535966 | Simon & Schuster | $24.95 | Education | 4/21/2008 |
| Volkov, Solomon | The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9781400042722 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Waldman, Steven | Founding Faith: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America | Mar-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781400064373 | Random House Inc | $26.00 | Religion | 4/21/2008 |
| Winter, Brian | Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina | Mar-08 | Kirkus | 9781586483708 | Perseus Books Group | $24.95 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Wintle, Justin | Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmas Prisoner of Conscience | Mar-08 | PW, Booklist | 9781602392663 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Black, Lewis | Me of Little Faith | Jun-08 | PW | 9781594489945 | Penguin Group USA | $24.95 | Humor | 4/21/2008 |
| Dobbs, Michael | One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Jun-08 | PW | 9781400043583 | Random House Inc | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Engel, Richard | War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq | Jun-08 | Booklist | 9781416563044 | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 | Social Science | |
| Fisher, Paul | House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9780805074901 | Henry Holt & Co | $35.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Fowler, Ruth | No Man's Land | Jun-08 | Booklist | 9780670019397 | Penguin Group USA | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Gilbert, Avery | What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9781400082346 | Random House Inc | $23.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Gill, A. A. | Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9781416572497 | Simon & Schuster | $14.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Gosling, Sam | Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780465027811 | Basic | $25.00 | Psychology | |
| Hague, William | William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner | Jun-08 | Kirkus | 9780151012671 | Harcourt | $35.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Kurlansky, Mark | The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town | Jun-08 | PW, Booklist | 9780345487278 | Ballantine | $25.00 | History | |
| Lerer, Seth | Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780226473000 | Univ of Chicago | $30.00 | Children's Literature | |
| Macfarlane, Robert | The Wild Places | Jun-08 | PW | 9780143113935 | Penguin Group USA | $15.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Meyer, Michael | The Last Days of Old Beijing: Tales from the New City | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780802716521 | St Martins Pr | $25.99 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Pham, Andrew X. | The Eaves Of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars | Jun-08 | Booklist, PW, Kirkus | 9780307381200 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Pisani, Elizabeth | Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS | Jun-08 | LJ | 9780393066623 | Norton | $25.95 | Medical | 5/2/2008 |
| Preston, Douglas | The Monster of Florence | Jun-08 | PW | 9780446581196 | Grand Central Pub | $25.99 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Sedaris, David | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | Jun-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780316143479 | Little Brown & Co | $25.99 | Humor | 4/21/2008 |
| Shehadeh, Raja | Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape | Jun-08 | Booklist, LJ, PW | 9781416569664 | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Vidal, Gore | The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal | Jun-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780385524841 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $27.50 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Ward, Andrew | The Slaves' War: A History of the Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves | Jun-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780618634002 | Houghton Mifflin | $28.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Wax, Steven T. | Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, a Public Defender's Inside Account | Jun-08 | PW | 9781590512951 | Random House Inc | $25.95 | Law | 4/21/2008 |
| Weintraub, Pamela | Cure, Unknown: Lyme and the Making of an Epidemic | Jun-08 | Booklist | 9780312378127 | St Martins | $27.95 | Medical | |
| Bass, Rick | Why I Came West | Jul-08 | Kirkus, Booklist | 9780618596751 | Houghton | $24.00 | Bio | 5/2/2008 |
| Dolnick, Edward | The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century | Jul-08 | PW, Kirkus | 9780060825416 | HarperCollins | $26.95 | Art | 5/2/2008 |
| Ellis, Richard | Tuna: A Love Story | Jul-08 | LJ | 9780307267153 | Random House Inc | $26.95 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Gardner, Daniel | The Science of Fear | Jul-08 | Kirkus | 9780525950622 | Dutton | $24.95 | Psycholgy | 5/2/2008 |
| Harvey, Miles | The Painter and the Savages: the Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America | Jul-08 | PW | 978140061204 | Random | $27.00 | Art | 5/2/2008 |
| Levy, Buddy | Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs | Jul-08 | LJ | 9780553805383 | Bantam | $27.50 | History | |
| Stuart, Nancy Rubin | The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation | Jul-08 | LJ | 9780807055168 | Beacon | $28.95 | History | 5/2/2008 |
| Babchenko, Arkady | One Soldier's War | Jan-08 | Kirkus | 9780802118608 | PGW | $25.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Bainbridge, David | Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain | Jan-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780674026100 | Harvard Univ Pr | $25.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Boylan, Jennifer Finney | I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted | Jan-08 | LJ, PW | 9780767921749 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Burr, Chandler | The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York | Jan-08 | PW | 9780805080377 | Henry Holt & Co | $25.00 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Carr, Nicholas | The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9780393062281 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Cohen, Richard M. | Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9780060763114 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Di Robilant, Andrea | Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9781400044139 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin | This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Jan-08 | LJ | 9780375404047 | Random House Inc | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Flynn, Laura M. | Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9781582433851 | PGW | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Herald, Diana Tixier & Bonnie Kunzel | Fluent in Fantasy: The Next Generation | Jan-08 | Booklist | 9781591581987 | Libraries Unlimited | $52.00 | Library Science | |
| Lewis, Anthony | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment | Jan-08 | Kirkus | 9780465039173 | Perseus Books Group | $25.00 | Law | 4/21/2008 |
| Lewis, David Levering | God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 | Jan-08 | PW | 9780393064728 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Nicholl, Charles | The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street | Jan-08 | Kirkus | 9780670018505 | Penguin Group USA | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Pollan, Michael | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Jan-08 | PW | 9781594201455 | Penguin Group USA | $21.95 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Shubin, Neil | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body | Jan-08 | Booklist, Kirkus | 9780375424472 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Shulman, Seth | Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret | Jan-08 | Booklist, PW | 9780393062069 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Sonnenberg, Susanna | Her Last Death: A Memoir | Jan-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780743291088 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Weiner, Eric | The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World | Jan-08 | PW | 9780446580267 | Grand Central Pub | $25.99 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Ariely, Dan | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Feb-08 | Kirkus | 9780061353239 | Harpercollins | $25.95 | Business | 4/21/2008 |
| Balf, Todd | Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780307236586 | Random House Inc | $24.00 | Sports | 4/21/2008 |
| Breslin, Jimmy | The Good Rat: A True Story | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780060856663 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Delaney, Bob | Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob | Feb-08 | PW | 9781402754432 | Sterling Pub Co Inc | $19.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Depastino, Todd | Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front | Feb-08 | Kirkus | 9780393061833 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Erlbaum, Janice | Have You Found Her: A Memoir | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780812974577 | Random House Inc | $14.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook | Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend | Feb-08 | LJ | 9780060510732 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Guelzo, Allen C. | Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America | Feb-08 | Kirkus, LJ, Booklist | 9780743273206 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Harris, Mark | Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood | Feb-08 | Booklist, Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9781594201523 | Penguin Group USA | $27.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Hess, Elizabeth | Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human | Feb-08 | PW | 9780553803839 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $23.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Hodgkinson, Will | Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, Or, My Single-minded Approach to Songwriting | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780306815812 | Perseus Books Group | $16.95 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Huddy, John | Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cards, and Millions of Dollars | Feb-08 | PW | 9780345487452 | Ballantine Books | $26.00 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Irvine, Amy | Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780865477032 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Jacoby, Susan | The Age of American Unreason | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780375423741 | Random House Inc | $26.00 | Philosphy | 4/21/2008 |
| Kahr, Brett | Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head?: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies | Feb-08 | LJ | 9780465037667 | Perseus Books Group | $28.00 | Psychology | 4/21/2008 |
| Kodas, Michael | High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed | Feb-08 | Kirkus | 9781401302733 | Hyperion Books | $24.95 | True Crime | 4/21/2008 |
| Le Breton, Binka | The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang | Feb-08 | PW | 9780385522182 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $21.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Li, Charles N. | The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao | Feb-08 | LJ | 9780061346644 | Harpercollins | $25.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Mcelwain, Jason | The Game of My Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing Up Autistic | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780451223012 | Penguin Group USA | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Miller, William Lee | President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman | Feb-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781400041039 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Mortimer, Gavin | The Great Swim | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780802715951 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Nakazawa, Donna Jackson | The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-edge Science That Promises Hope | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780743277754 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Power, Samantha | Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World | Feb-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9781594201288 | Penguin Group USA | $32.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Roahen, Sara | Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table | Feb-08 | Booklist | 9780393061673 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Education | 4/21/2008 |
| Rosen, Jonathan | The Life of the Skies | Feb-08 | LJ, PW | 9780374186302 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Sheff, David | Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction | Feb-08 | Booklist, LJ | 9780618683352 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.00 | Psychology | 4/21/2008 |
| Steinberg, Jonny | Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic | Feb-08 | PW | 9781416552697 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Health | 4/21/2008 |
| Taylor, Nick | American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work | Feb-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9780553802351 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $27.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Woiwode, Larry | A Step from Death: A Memoir | Feb-08 | Kirkus, PW | 9781582433738 | PGW | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Theroux, Paul | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar | Aug-08 | Booklist | 9780618418879 | Houghton | $28.00 | Travel | |
| Wood, James | How Fiction Works | Aug-08 | PW, Kirkus, LJ | 9780374173401 | FSG | $22.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Ackroyd, Peter | Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780385507998 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $21.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Allende, Isabel | The Sum of Our Days | Apr-08 | PW | 9780061551833 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Andrews, Julie | Home: A Memoir of My Early Years | Apr-08 | PW | 9780786865659 | Hyperion Books | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Bernstein, Harry | The Dream: A Memoir | Apr-08 | PW | 9780345503749 | Ballantine Books | $24.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Bernstein, William J. | A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9780871139795 | PGW | $30.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Burroughs, Augusten | A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father | Apr-08 | PW | 9780312342029 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Coll, Steve | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9781594201646 | Penguin Group USA | $35.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Crosley, Sloane | I Was Told There'd Be Cake | Apr-08 | PW | 9781594483066 | Penguin Group USA | $14.00 | Humor | 4/21/2008 |
| Delbridge, Melissa J. | Family Bible | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9781587296512 | Univ of Iowa Pr | $23.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Engler, Mark | How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle over the Global Econom | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9781568583655 | Perseus Books Group | $16.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Foote, Donna | Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780307265715 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Education | 4/21/2008 |
| Frazier, Ian | Lamentations of the Father | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780374281625 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $22.00 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Glenny, Misha | Mcmafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld | Apr-08 | PW | 9781400044115 | Random House Inc | $27.95 | Social Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Gorgani, Fakhraddin | Vis & Ramin | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9781933823171 | Mage Pub | $45.00 | Literature | 4/21/2008 |
| Greenlaw, Lavinia | The Importance of Music to Girls | Apr-08 | Kirkus, Booklist, PW | 9780374174545 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $23.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Greer, Germaine | Shakespeare's Wife | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780061537158 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Groneberg, Jennifer Graf | Road Map to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years with Down Syndrome | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780451222954 | Penguin Group USA | $14.00 | Family | 4/21/2008 |
| Hornbacher, Marya | Madness: A Bipolar Life | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780618754458 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Horwitz, Tony | A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780805076035 | Henry Holt & Co | $27.50 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Jones, Tom | Working at the Ballpark: The Fascinating Lives of Baseball People--from Peanut Vendors and Broadcasters to Players and Managers | Apr-08 | LJ | 9781602392267 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $17.95 | Sports | 4/21/2008 |
| Jordan, Pat | Very Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan | Apr-08 | Booklist | 9780892553396 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $27.95 | Sports | 4/21/2008 |
| Judt, Tony | Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotton Twentieth Century | Apr-08 | PW | 9781594201363 | Penguin Group USA | $29.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Kershaw, Alex | Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew | Apr-08 | PW | 9780306815195 | Perseus Books Group | $26.00 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Khudayyir, Muhammad | Basrayatha: The Story of a City | Apr-08 | PW | 9781844672332 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $15.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Kohnstamm, Thomas | Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9780307394651 | Random House Inc | $13.95 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Lopez, Steve | The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendhsip, and the Redemptive Power of Music | Apr-08 | PW, Booklist, LJ | 9780399155062 | Penguin Group USA | $25.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Mason, Michael P. | Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath | Apr-08 | LJ, PW | 9780374134525 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Masur, Louis P. | The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photography that Shocked America | Apr-08 | Booklist, PW | 9781596913646 | Bloomsbury | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| McKibben, Bill (EDT) | American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau | Apr-08 | Booklist, PW | 9781598530209 | Penguin Group USA | $40.00 | Nature | 4/21/2008 |
| Patoski, Joe Nick | Willie Nelson: An Epic Life | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9780316017787 | Little Brown & Co | $27.99 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Persico, Joseph | Franklin And Lucy: An Intimate Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women Who Shaped Fdr's Life | Apr-08 | LJ | 9781400064427 | Random House Inc | $28.00 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Queller, Jessica | Pretty Is What Changes: Tough Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and Learning How to Live in the DNA Age | Apr-08 | LJ | 9780385520409 | Bantam Dell Pub Group | $24.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Roach, Mary | Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Apr-08 | Kirkus, LJ, Booklist | 9780393064643 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Science | 4/21/2008 |
| Robbins, Christopher | Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared | Apr-08 | LJ, Kirkus | 9780977743384 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.00 | Travel | 4/21/2008 |
| Rosenthal, Neal I. | Reflections of a Wine Merchant | Apr-08 | PW | 9780374248567 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Cooking | 4/21/2008 |
| Rovina, Nesta | Tree Barking: A Memoir | Apr-08 | LJ | 9781597140812 | Heyday Books | $14.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Samuels, David | Only Love Can Break Your Heart | Apr-08 | PW | 9781595581877 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $26.95 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Styron, William | Havanas In Camelot: Personal Essays | Apr-08 | Kirkus | 9781400067190 | Random House Inc | $23.00 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Summerscale, Kate | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective | Apr-08 | PW | 9780802715357 | St Martins Pr | $24.95 | History | 4/21/2008 |
| Tunstall, Tricia | Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson | Apr-08 | PW, Booklist | 9781416540502 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Music | 4/21/2008 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace | Apr-08 | PW | 9780399155086 | Penguin Group USA | $24.95 | Essays | 4/21/2008 |
| Yang, Kao Kalia | Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir | Apr-08 | PW | 9781566892087 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist | $14.95 | Bio | 4/21/2008 |
| Yiwu, Liao | The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up | Apr-08 | PW | 9780375425424 | Random House Inc | $25.00 | Political Science | 4/21/2008 |
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African American Fiction | Christian Fiction
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