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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 2006
Nonfiction
- The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi
Author: Broad, William J.
Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 1594200815 Date: 2006
Booklist
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author describes how a team of scientists, working from subtle clues scattered throughout the ancient literature, as well as from the latest findings in geology, uncovered scientific evidence to explain the Oracle of Delphi's powers.
Updated 1.21.06 - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670034711 Date: 2006PWLJBooklist
A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Travel Tales | Cooked Books
Updated 1.21.06 - My Battle of Algiers
Author: Morgan, Ted
Publisher: Harper $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060852240 Date: 2006PWKirkusLJ
An eminent historian and Pulitzer Prize winner describes his experience as a young officer in the savage Algerian War. The author, a Yale graduate who grew up in France and America, was drafted into the French Army and served in Algeria from 1956-57.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 1.18.06
Fiction
- Sebastian
Author: Bishop, Anne
Publisher: Roc $ 23.95 ISBN: 0451460731 Date: 2006PWLJ
In a world of shifting lands, the half-incubus Sebastian revels in dark delights. In his dreams, the woman he hungers for calls to him--even though he could destroy her. Meanwhile the Eater of the World has escaped its prison, and Sebastian's realm could be the first to fall.
Updated 1.18.06 - Rattled
Author: Galant, Debra
Publisher: St Martins $ 21.95 ISBN: 0312349319 Date: 2006LJ
Carl Hiassen meets Desperate Housewives in this hilarious debut about a face-off between the new suburban chic, some old-time residents, a real estate mogul--and a rattlesnake.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | If You Like Carl Hiassen
Updated 11.22.05 - My Lucky Star
Author: Keenan, Joe
Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316060194 Date: 2006PW
In this hilarious, laser-sharp comedy, the Emmy-winning writer and producer of Frasier sends up Hollywood pretense higher than it's ever been sent before.
Suggested Reading: Film Stars
Updated 12.5.05 - Timothy: Notes of an Abject Reptile
Author: Klinkenborg, Verlyn
Publisher: Knopf $ 16.95 ISBN: 0679407286 Date: 2006PWKirkusLJBooklist
Exploring the natural history of a tortoise by adopting its own sensibility, Timothy is the story of a creature whose real life was observed by the 18th-century curate Gilbert White, author of The Natural history of Senborne.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Nature - Nonfiction
Updated 12.27.05 - Secret Sisters
Author: Rodgers, Joni
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060831383 Date: 2006
From the author of Bald in the Land of Big Hair comes the story of three very different women and the surprising journey each one takes as she reinvents her life after loss.
Updated 1.30.06 - Frangipani
Author: Vaite, Celestine Hitiura
Publisher: Back Bay $ 12.95 ISBN: 0316114669 Date: 2006Kirkus
In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all--or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds of their love.
Updated 9.26.05 - The Amalgamation Polka
Author: Wright, Stephen
Publisher: Knopf 24.95 $ ISBN: 067945117x Date: 2006PWLJBooklist
Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the child of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause-a conflict that ultimately costs his mother her life and comples Liberty, in hopes of reconciling the familial disunion, to escape from the cauldron of war into a bedlam more distubing yet. Rich in characters heartbreaking and bloodcurdling, comic and horrific this books is shot through with politics and dreams, and it captures great swaths of the American experience.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Historical Fiction
Updated 12.28.05
Crime Fiction
- Death of a Dreamer
Author: Beaton, M.C.
Publisher: Warner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0892967897 Date: 2006Booklist
Hamish Macbeth is on the trail of a killer with a penchant for poison in this novel of murder in the Scottish Highlands. When Effie Garrand is found poisoned by hemlock, it's up to Macbeth to find her killer before more nightmares unfold.
Suggested Reading: Scottish Crime Fiction
Updated 12.5.05 - Shadows in the Starlight
Author: Cunningham, Elaine
Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0765309718 Date: 2006Kirkus
Imagine Laurel Hamilton mixed with a liberal dose of Andrew Vachs, and osterized in a Tolkienesque blender with a young heroine that combines the best elements of both Dark Angel and Alias and you have Gwen "GiGi" Gellman of Changeling Detective Agency.
Suggested Reading: Cross Genres
Updated 11.9.05 - Zero to the Bone
Author: Eversz, Robert
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0743250176 Date: 2006
PW
Robert Eversz's edgy and endearing heroine Nina Zero is back...and this time she's embroiled in her most dangerous case ever -- investigating L.A.'s underground S&M scene while getting caught up in sex, lies, and babysitting. - Publisher Marketing.
Suggested Reading: If You Like Nina Zero
Updated 12.27.05 - Speak of the Devil
Author: Hawke, Richard
Publisher: Random $ 21.95 ISBN: 1400064252 Date: 2006Booklist
In this gripping and entertaining novel, a charismatic Manhattan P.I. is caught up in the city's darkest conspiracy.
Suggested Reading: Thrillers | P.I.s
Updated 11.2.05 - The Ethical Assassin
Author: Liss, David
Publisher: Ballantine $ 24.95 ISBN: 140006421x Date: 2006Kirkus
Edgar Award-winning author Liss's first contemporary thriller offers an original view of odd dreamers, political intrigue, and the strange, corrupt ways of life in America.
Suggested Reading: Thrillers | If You Like Carl Hiaasen
Updated 10.25.05 - The Wall
Author: Long, Jeff
Publisher: Atria $ 24 ISBN: 0743266161 Date: 2006PW
When Hugh Glass sets off into the vertical wilderness of El Capitan with his former climbing partner, the two become entangled in a deadly rescue attempt where the rescuers become victims hounded by their demons.
Suggested Reading: Thrillers | Rock Climbing | Wild Life | Jeff Long Author Connection
Updated 11.7.05 - The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club (Debutante Dropout Mysteries )
Author: McBride, Susan
Publisher: Avon $ 6.99 ISBN: 0060564083 Date: 2006
Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks wants her sometime-sleuthing daughter Andrea to look into the mysterious death of her friend Bebe, who died soon after moving into a swanky retirement community. Andrea wants no part of her mother's social whirl, but she has no choice when more well-heeled widows turn up dead.
Updated 1.30.06 - Perfection
Author: Satterthwait, Walter
Publisher: Minotaur $ ISBN: 0312352441 Date: 2006
In a small Florida city, a most baffling killer insists that his victims meet very specific criteria. Satterthwait teases the reader---and police detectives Sophia Tregaskis and Jim Fallon too; he shows us the killer in his own home, reliving the satisfaction of his latest murder. We watch him scouting his neighboring supermarket for the next person who will require "perfection." - Publisher Marketing.
Updated 1.13.06 - Kill Me
Author: White, Stephen
Publisher: Dutton $ 25.95 ISBN: 0525949305 Date: 2006
LJ
In this "thinking person's thriller" (Jeffery Deaver), bestselling author Stephen White throws out everything readers think they know about twists, turns, and surprises as he introduces the Death Angels.
Suggested Reading: Thrillers
Updated 12.27.05
Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages
Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.- The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery
Author: Springer, Nancy
Publisher: Philomel $ 10.99 ISBN: 0399243046 Date: 2006
Booklist Kirkus
A new series featuring Sherlock Holmes' much-younger sister Enola begins. When her mother disappears, Enola is determined to find her and sets out to the heart of London. There Enola becomes involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess.
Suggested Reading: Sherlockian Stars
Ages: 9-12 Category: Fiction | Mystery | Action & Adventure - The King of Attolia
Author: Turner, Megan Whalen
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 006083577x Date: 2006
Kirkus
Eugenides returns in the highly anticipated sequel to The Thief and The Queen of Attolia.
Ages: 10+ Category: Fiction | Speculative | Action & Adventure