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Featured Titles 2005 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.

December 2005

Nonfiction

• Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
  Author: Booth, Martin
  Publisher: Thomas Dunne $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312348177 Date: 2005
  Kirkus
  The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong.
  Updated 10.11.05
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
  Author: Wallace, David Foster
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 25.95 ISBN: 0316156116 Date: 2005
  Kirkus
  This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling Infinite Jest.
  Updated 9.26.05

Fiction

• Get a Life
  Author: Gordimer, Nadine
  Publisher: FSG $ 20 ISBN: 0374161704 Date: 2005
  KirkusPW
  After being treated for thyroid cancer, South African ecologist Paul Bannerman finds that he is temporarily radioactive and retreats to his childhood home to protect his wife and child--and to rethink his life--in this tale from the 1991 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  Suggested Reading: South Africa
  Updated 10.12.05
• The Remedy
  Author: Lovric, Michelle
  Publisher: Regan $ 25.95 ISBN: 0060837039 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  Love and murder fuse the lives of an 18th-century Venetian actress and the prince of London's medical underworld in the new novel by the author of the Booksense Top Ten pick The Floating Book.
  Suggested Reading: Venice
  Updated 11.14.05
• Fade the Heat
  Author: Thompson, Colleen
  Publisher: Love Spell $ 6.99 ISBN: 0505526484 Date: 2005
  PW
  As a female firefighter battles personal demons and a serial arsonist, will a doctor from her past be able to help her heal and find peace?
  Updated 9.26.05

Mystery & Suspense

• Cat Dancers
  Author: Deutermann, Peter T.
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312333773 Date: 2005
  LJPW
  When a vigilante group electrocutes a murderer, Lieutenant Cam Richter must track them down before they strike again. "Relentless, exciting, and gripping- The Cat Dancers sinks its claws in and doesn't let go."--Jeff Lindsay, author of Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
  Updated 10.11.05
• The Moon Tunnel
  Author: Kelly, Jim
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 031234922x Date: 2005
  PWBooklist
  Looking for buried Anglo-Saxon treasure on-site at a former POW camp, journalist Philip Dryden is on hand when excavators find the skeletal remains of a man trapped in an underground tunnel. No one can explain the bullet hole in his forehead and the direction of his body: he was crawling in, not out.
  Updated 9.23.05