Featured Titles

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.

March 2006

Nonfiction

• Weather Makers: The Hsitory and Future Impact of Climate Change
  Author: Flannery, Tim
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 25 ISBN: 0871139359 Date: 2006
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  Both an urgent warning and a call to arms, The Weather Makers outlines the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what people can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Weather
  Updated 11.23.05
• The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise
  Author: Grunwald, Michael
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0743251059 Date: 2006
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  A prize-winning "Washington Post" reporter tells the story of the Florida Everglades, from its beginnings as 4,500 off-putting square miles of natural liquid wasteland to the ecological mess it has become.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Nature Stars
  Updated 2.8.06
• Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
  Author: Trussoni, Danielle
  Publisher: Holt $ 23 ISBN: 0805077324 Date: 2006
  KirkusBooklistLJ
  Danielle Trussoni unflinchingly explores a daughter's love for her flawed father and confronts the demons that haunt them both. Falling Through the Earth is tender and tough, harrowing and triumphant. - Jeanette Walls, author of The Glass Castle.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Memoirs
  Reading Group Guide: http://www.henryholt.com/readingguides/trussoni.htm
  Updated 1.26.06

Fiction

• Brookland
  Author: Barton, Emily
  Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 0374116903 Date: 2006
  PW Kirkus LJ
  Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction | All Stars
  Updated 1.18.06
• In the Company of the Courtesan
  Author: Dunant, Sarah
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 1400063817 Date: 2006
  PWBooklistKirkusLJ
  Set in Renaissance Italy, this follow-up to Dunant's The Birth of Venus recounts the fantastic escapades of Bucino Teodoldo, a wily dwarf, and his mistress, celebrated courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini, who escape to Venice where intrigue awaits.
  Street Date: 2.14.06
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Historical Fiction | Art Stars
  Updated 1.18.06
• Here They Come
  Author: Murphy , Yannick
  Publisher: McSweeneys $ 22 ISBN: 1932416501 Date: 2006
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  The author of the "New York Times" Notable Book Sea of Trees gives lyrical voice to an unforgettable 13-year-old girl, who with a quiet sense of the surreal recounts a year of vivid, mundane moments in 1970s New York City with dark humor and deadpan resilience.
  Updated 1.30.06
• Headstone City
  Author: Piccirilli, Tom
  Publisher: Spectra $ 5.99 ISBN: 0553587218 Date: 2006
  PW
  The multiple award-winning author of November Mourns delivers his most genre-bending novel yet, as one man faces down hitmen, supernatural forces, and the dark corners of his own past.
  Suggested Reading: Cross Genres | Hitmen
  Updated 12.27.05

Crime Fiction

• The Templar Legacy
  Author: Berry, Steve
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345476158 Date: 2006
  LJ
  The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes--until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the Earth. Now two forces vying for the treasure learn that its true nature could change the modern world.
  Suggested Reading: Templars | Thrillers
  Updated 1.31.06
• Oh Danny Boy
  Author: Bowen, Rhys
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312328176 Date: 2006
  LJ
  An Edgar Award finalist captures early 1900s New York as P.I. Molly Murphy sets out to catch a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
  Updated 2.28.06
• Crippen
  Author: Boyne, John
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312343582 Date: 2006
  PW LJ
  This beautifully drawn novel re-creates the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers. "Genuinely thrilling . . . "--"Sunday Tribune" (UK).
  Suggested Reading: Historical Crime Fiction | Biographical Fiction| Crippen
  Updated 1.31.06
• The Blight Way
  Author: McManus, Patrick F.
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0743280474 Date: 2006
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  The bestselling author kicks off a rousing new mystery series set in the rarefied air of the Rockies, where maverick local sheriff Bo Tully has his hands full trying to ferret out a murderer among the colorful denizens of Blight County.
  Updated 1.25.06
• The Fallen
  Author: Parker, T. Jefferson
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060562382 Date: 2006
  KirkusPWBooklist
  The award-winning author of California Girl plumbs the depths of the human heart in this electrifying new novel of suspense. "Some of the finest writing you will ever read."--"Chicago Sun Times."
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Thrillers
  Updated 2.2.06

Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages

Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.

• Corydon and the Island of Monsters
  Author: Druitt, Tobias
  Publisher: Knopf $ 15.95 ISBN: 037583382X  Date: 2006
  
  This first book in a new trilogy retells the Greek myth of Medusa. Young Corydon is driven out of his village because of his unusual appearance and then captured and put on display as a monster in a traveling freak show, alongside other classical beasts.
  Ages: 8-12 Category: Fiction | Myths | Action & Adventure
• The Book Thief
  Author: Zusak, Markus
  Publisher: Knopf $ 16.95 ISBN: 0375831002 Date: 2006
  Kirkus PW
  Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich during World War II. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books--in an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Historical
  Suggested Reading: Young Adult Stars