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APRIL 2008

NEW FICTION

Fiction-

Katie Crouch. Girls in Trucks. Unable to emulate the model of a perfect debutante, Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication.

Marisa de Los Santos. Belong to Me. While Cornelia gains unexpected insight into her troubled marriage, Piper finds her carefully controlled life unraveling in the wake of a friend's crisis, and Lake tells a complex series of lies to gain her son's entry into a school for gifted students.

Katie Fforde. Practically Perfect. Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, has decided that it is time to put her money and her expertise where her mouth is by purchasing a tiny cottage in desperate need of renovation, but as she deals with an escalating series of remodeling problems, settles in, and makes new friends, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of the handsome but impossible Rob Hunter.

Linda Francis Lee. The Ex-Debutante. With her family in turmoil, Boston attorney Carlisle Wainwright Cushing, a former Texas debutante, returns home to set things right--organize the Symphony Association Debutante Ball, deal with her mother's divorce, and regain her family's good name--but things become complicated when she comes face to face with the true love of her life.

Henning Makell. The Eye of the Leopard. Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident, efforts that are compromised by rumors of an underground army.

Lee Martin. River of Heaven. The mysterious 1955 death of teenager Dewey Finn on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, has a profound impact on the people of the small town, including Dewey's boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose life had been irrevocably altered by the event, until his estranged brother Cal returns home after decades of self-exile and threatens to reveal the secret of that long-ago night.

James Morrow. The Philosopher’s Apprentice. Taking a job on a tropical island tutoring an amnesiac victim whose conscience has disappeared with her memory, failed philosopher Mason Ambrose is amazed when his pupil thoroughly studies his morality curriculum and then sets out to remake the world in her own image. By the author of The Last Witchfinder.

Elizabeth Noble. Things I Want My Daughters to Know. Having received letters and a journal from their mother written at the end of her life, four sisters struggle through their first year without her, a time marked by their bereavement and efforts to achieve joy and passion.

Joyce Carol Oates. Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway. Reimagines the final days of five major American writers, in a collection of short works written in the subtly nuanced language style of each. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Gravedigger's Daughter.

Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories. Kitty loves growing up at Hay House, but her mother, Marina, a Bohemian beauty who craves attention, novelty, and excitement, heads for New York at the direction of her guru, leaving Kitty in a colorless boarding school until she is also summoned to the ashram, before Marina once again relocates the family, in a debut novel about growing up in an eccentric household.

Jennifer Weiner. Certain Girls. A sequel to Good in Bed takes place thirteen years later and finds a no-longer-famous Cannie writing science fiction under a pen name, raising her teenage daughter, and considering her husband Peter's request to have Cannie's flamboyant sister provide surrogate services so that they can have a second child.

Tobias Wolff. Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. A masterful compilation of short fiction by the author of Old School and This Boy's Life combines ten original works with twenty-one classic tales that chronicle the unexpected revelations that occur in the lives of characters ranging from a teacher abducted by a student's father to an attorney taking a difficult deposition.

Meg Wolitzer. The Ten-Year Nap. Ten years after leaving high-power jobs to raise their children, four New York friends enter their forties while struggling with the differences between their past ideals and their present realities, a situation that become turbulent when one of them meets a successful working mother of three who seems to have it all.

Fantasy/Science Fiction—

David Drake. When the Tide Rises. Unable to field enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its wars with the Alliance, the Republic of Cinnabar sends Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, spy Adele Mundy, to the Bagarian cluster to assist in its rebellion against the Alliance, but the pair soon discovers that the worst threat to the rebellion is the treacherous politicians leading it.

Raymond E. Feist. Wrath of a Mad God, Book Three (The Darkwar Saga). A new installment in the series that began with Flight of the Nighthawks and Into a Dark Realm finds the sorcerer Pug and his Conclave of Shadows companions traveling undercover among the bloodthirsty Desati, where they encounter a young stranger with disturbing secrets.

Roberta Gellis & Mercedes Lackey. And Less Than Kind. On the verge of womanhood, Princess Elizabeth faces all new challenges with her brother Edward VI dying, the rise to Mary as queen, the schemes of the evil elf-lord Viada Dhu coming to fruition with the Dark Court's ability to feed on the misery generated by Mary's inquisitorial reign, and Mary's plot to marry off Elizabeth to ensure a Catholic heir.

Allen Steele. Galaxy Blues. Accused of grand theft and expelled from the Union Astronautica space fleet, Jules Truffant takes on a job as shuttle pilot for the freighter Pride of Cucamonga in exchange for amnesty, only to find himself taking part in a perilous voyage across the galaxy to plant a probe in the path of a black hole that is making its way through an inhabited star system.

Historical Fiction—

Richard Bausch. Peace. During the winter of 1944, three soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up a mountain in Italy, near Mount Cassino, lead by seventy-year-old Angelo, an Italian of indeterminate loyalty, and are confronted by the terror, confusion, and hardship of their mission, which is enhanced by a life-altering encounter with a sniper, in a story of the human cost of war.

Catherine Delors. Mistress of the Revolution. Forced to marry an elderly baron instead of a man she loves, impoverished noblewoman Gabrielle de Montserrat is condemned along with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the height of the French Revolution and finds her life placed in the hands of her former lover.

Jennifer Cody Epstein. The Painter From Shanghai. A tale inspired by the life of pre-war Shanghai artist Pan Yuliang traces her life in a brothel before she becomes a concubine to a Republican official who ultimately helps her to find her way as an artist.

Michael W. Gear & Kathleen O’Neal Gear. People of the Weeping Eye. Summoned by the mystical Katsinas to return to his home, Old White, the wandering “Seeker,” follows a trail that takes him to the headwaters of the Mississippi and to a life-changing encounter with Two Petals, a youngsoul woman obsessed with Spirit Power who lives life backwards, whose tortured soul he must heal with the help of Trader, a loner with a dark past.

Marek Halter. Mary of Nazareth. A provocative fictional account of the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, captures the turbulent world of an idealistic young woman who risks everything to bring a much-needed miracle to her people and describes the influence on her of the three most important men in her life--her father, a rebel, and Joseph, a family friend.

Joanna Hershon. The German Bride. In 1865, a secret affair with the artist hired by her German Jewish father to paint his daughters' portraits forces Eva into a quick marriage and drives her to leave Berlin to seek a new life on the frontier of the American Southwest, but the ghosts of the past follow her across the Atlantic and along the Santa Fe Trail, until she can confront the past and build a new future.

Ursula K. Le Guin. Lavinia. Growing up in ancient Italy, Lavinia is on the verge of a betrothal to Turnus, the handsome king of nearby Rulli, when a fleet of Trojan ships, under the command of Aeneas, sails up the Tiber, and Lavinia sets out to control her own destiny and find the love of her life, in a historical novel that puts a female twist on Virgil's classic, The Aeneid.

Kate Morton. The House at Riverton. Living out her final days in a nursing home, ninety-eight-year-old Grace remembers the secrets surrounding the 1924 suicide of a young poet during a glittering society party hosted by Grace's English aristocrat employers, a family that is shattered by war.

Horror Fiction—

V.C. Andrews. Secrets in the Shadows. In the sequel to Secrets in the Attic, Alice, whose mother is a murderer confined to a mental institution, is sent to live with her aunt Zipporah following a tragic accident on prom night, but when she visits the asylum where her mother lives, her own mysterious past begins to unfold in terrifying detail.

Kate Mosse. Sepulchre. Conducting research in southwest France, American graduate student Meredith Martin finds the grand old hotel where she is staying eerily familiar and experiences strange dreams and visions about a sister and brother whose visit to the same region a century earlier had unexpected otherworldly consequences. By the author of Labyrinth.

Scott Sigler. Infected. As ordinary people across America are transformed into raving, paranoid, murderous monsters by a mysterious bioengineered parasite, Perry Dawsey, a former football star, confronts his own battle with the infection as he discovers that the parasites want something special from him that goes way beyond mere murder.

Mystery—

Susan Wittig Albert. Nightshade. With her half-brother Miles and her husband determined to investigate the circumstances surrounding her father's death, herbalist China Bayles reluctantly joins in to uncover the truth, but she and McQuaid soon discover that Miles may be hiding more secrets than he apparently is willing to reveal. By the author of Spanish Dagger. 

Dorothy Cannell. Goodbye, Ms. Chips: An Ellie Haskell Mystery. Reluctantly heading back to her old boarding school, St. Roberta's, to find a thief, amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell must confront a dark secret from her own past when beloved games-mistress Ms. Chips dies unexpectedly, and Ellie becomes convinced that the death is mysteriously related to the theft of the school's prized Loverly Cup.

Carol Higgens Clark. Zapped: A Regan Reilly Mystery. Returning home from their honeymoon to discover that their neighbor has put his Manhattan apartment up for sale, Regan Reilly and her husband Jack decide to buy it to enlarge their own loft, but the renovation process spawns its own set of problems and an unexpected case.

Karen Joy Fowler. Wit’s End. Visiting her mystery writer godmother in coastal California after losing her father to cancer, Rima Lanisell endeavors to learn the nature of her godmother's and father's relationship, while her godmother struggles to keep myriad secrets from both Rima and a host of increasingly intrusive fans.

Jane Haddam. Cheating at Solitaire: A George Demarkian Novel. Fleeing his own wedding preparations, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is asked to investigate the murder of the latest boy toy of aging teen idol Arrow Normand, a crime in which Normand is the prime suspect, and finds himself dealing with a morass of motives, a cult of celebrity, an out-of-control media frenzy, and little real evidence.

Parnell Hall. The Sudoku Puzzle Murders: A Puzzle Lady Mystery. Hired to write a book on sudoku, Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, is baffled by the arrival in Bakerhaven of two rival Japanese publishers who are vying for her services, a situation that becomes increasingly complicated by the lengths to which the men--and archenemies--will go to beat each other, machinations that result in murder, in a mystery complemented by sudoku and crossword puzzles.

Sue Henry. Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery. After several years spent recovering from a devastating knee injury, champion musher Jessie Arnold is working to get back into shape for the Iditarod, but when she stumbles upon a corpse during a practice run down a local trail, she and her boyfriend, Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen, are sidetracked by the hunt for a killer.

Joan Hess. Mummy Dearest: A Claire Malloy Mystery. On a honeymoon trip to Luxor, Egypt, with her new husband, Lt. Peter Rosen, teenage daughter Caron, and Caron's best friend Inez, Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy suddenly finds her honeymoon turned upside down when the two girls are chased through back alleys by unknown pursuers and a blonde college student is kidnapped by two young men on horseback.

James Patrick Hunt. Goodbye Sister Disco. In the follow-up to The Betrayers, St. Louis Police detective George Hastings enters into an uneasy alliance with the FBI to investigate the seemingly politically motivated abduction of the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the killing of her boyfriend.

Ann B. Ross. Miss Julia Paints the Town. Dismayed by developer plans to bulldoze a historic courthouse, Miss Julia launches a plan to expose the community's eccentric characters in order to scare off investors, but her investigation is challenged by the disappearances of several of her friends' husbands.

Laura Rowland. The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte: A Mystery. Setting out for London to clear her name when she is falsely accused of plagiarism, Charlotte Brontë inadvertently stumbles on a murder scene and finds herself embroiled in a chain of events that forces her to confront past demons, following a trail of clues, assisted by her sisters, Emily and Anne.

Suspense—

Peter Abrahams. Delusion. Twenty years after her testimony results in a conviction and leads to her marriage to the case's detective, Nell Jarreau is shocked to learn that new evidence has exonerated the man she had helped send to prison, a situation that overwhelms her with guilt and strains her family ties.

Ted Dekker. Adam. Rendered famous for his anti-religion stance, FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has a near-death experience when a mysterious serial killer attempts to murder him, an event that forces Daniel to re-create his death and challenge his belief system in order to identify his would-be killer.

Nicci French. Losing You: A Thriller. Preparing to leave for a Florida vacation with her two children, Nina Landry anxiously awaits the return of her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, who had spent the night at a friend's house, but Nina begins to worry when Charlie does not come home, and no one--the police, Charlie's friends, even Charlie's father--takes the disappearance seriously.

Heather Graham. The Death Dealer. After surviving herself as the prisoner of a deranged killer, author Genevieve O'Brien is confronted by a new nightmare as a killer obsessed by Poe's macabre tales selects his victims from members of a literary society devoted to the master writer and, fearing that her mother will be next, enlists the aid of P.I. Joe Connolly, her friend and rescuer, to stop the murders.

Andrew Gross. The Dark Tide. When her husband becomes one of dozens of commuters who are killed in a tragic Grand Central Station accident, Karen Friedman struggles to rebuild her life with her two teenage children, until a pair of strangers arrives demanding large funds from her late husband's investment business.

Michael Gruber. The Forgery of Venus. Having inherited his father's considerable artistic talents but unable to find buyers for his traditional works in the face of his peers' contemporary creations, Chaz Wimont accepts a commission to restore an antique fresco in a European castle, a job that brings unexpected success and a sinister offer.

Colin Harrison. The Finder. Jin-Li, a beautiful and secretive Chinese woman who becomes involved in a plot to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City, is forced to go on the run when her complicity is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose a fortune, while her secretive former lover, Ray Grant, races against time to find her before her enemies do.

Andrea Kane. Twisted. Warned to stop making trouble when she rallies for an investigation into the disappearances of her childhood friend and other women, former FBI agent Sloane Burbank clashes with her ex over how the case is being handled, in a case that leads to unsettling discoveries and the stoking of unresolved feelings.

Jesse Kellerman. The Genius. Making an ethically precarious decision to establish himself in the cutthroat art world by illegally selling a treasure trove of works by a missing genius, Ethan Muller finds himself targeted when it is revealed that the pieces contain clues about the artist's role in a forty-year-old murder case.

Patrick McGrath. Trauma. Growing up in a severely dysfunctional family, Charlie Weir builds a career as a psychiatrist in New York City, working with victims of trauma including veterans returning from Vietnam, but the suicide of a patient, the breakup of his marriage, the growing turmoil of the city around him, and a volatile other woman lead Charlie to question everything, even his own sanity.

Deon Meyer. Devil’s Peak. In the aftermath of a gruesome child abuse case that has caught the attention of the media, Inspector Benny Griessel struggles to maintain his sobriety in order to bring down a vigilante killer who has won the sympathy of the public. By the author of Heart of the Hunter.

Scott Spencer. Willing. Offered an all-expense-paid sex tour around the world, a down-and-out writer believes he has landed the book idea of a lifetime but finds the trip deteriorating into a nightmare when he is unable to stop obsessing about his unfaithful girlfriend and the increasing depravity of the men with whom he is traveling. By the author of A Ship Made of Paper.

Richard Stark. Dirty Money. A follow-up to Nobody Runs Forever finds master criminal Parker and his cohorts returning to an abandoned country church where they had been forced to abandon the spoils of a bank heist, an endeavor during which he drives an old choir van and works to outmaneuver foes on both sides of the law.

David Stone. The Orpheus Deception. A follow-up to The Echelon Vendetta finds CIA agent Micah Dalton challenging a powerful Serbian warlord after a daring assassination attempt in Venice, in an effort during which he uncovers a conspiracy linking an act of piracy, a missing agent, and a hospital ship's covert agenda.

Western-

Richard Wheeler. Virgin River: A Barnaby Skye Novel. Barnaby Skye and his two wives, Victoria of the Crow and Mary of the Shoshone, lead a party of tubercular young people to the desert Southwest in search of a cure at Virgin River, but their expedition is threatened by rival guides, heightened tension between the Mormons and federal government, and superstitious fears of tuberculosis.

NEW NON-FICTION

Isabel Allende. The Sum of Our Days.

John Burrow. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances, and Inquiries From Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century.

Andrei Cherny. The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour.

Michael Connelly. The Blue Religion: New Stories About Cops, Criminals, and the Chase.

Marcia Ann Gillespie. Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration.

Misha Glenny. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld.

Dave Hall & Tym Burkey with Katherine Ramstand. Into the Devil’s Den: How an FBI Informant Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got Him Out Alive.

Alexandra Harney. The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage.

Marilu Henner with Lorin Henner. Wear Your Life Well: Use What You Have to Get What You Want.

Marya Hornbacher. Madness: A Bipolar Life.

Arianna Huffington. Right is Wrong.

Pico Iyer. The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama.

Tony Judt. Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century.

Robert Kagan. The Return of History and the End of Dreams.

Kurt Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect… And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace.

Sheila Weller. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation.

Howard Zinn. A People’s History of American Empire.

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