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.
May 2006
- Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Author: Hessler, Peter
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26.95 ISBN: 0060826584 Date: 2006
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From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of 21st-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
Updated 2.28.06
- Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
Author: Maraniss, David
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0743217810 Date: 2006
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of When Pride Still Mattered comes a book destined to become a modern classic--a full-scale biography of great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, who lived, played, and died with enduring passion and grace.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Sports Stars
Updated 3.8.06
- Theft
Author: Carey, Peter
Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0307263711 Date: 2006
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A two-time Booker Prize-winner takes on the topic of what people will do for art, for love, and for money. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo--and exploring themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption--this novel will make readers laugh out loud.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 5.16.06
- The Stolen Child
Author: Donohue, Keith
Publisher: Nan Talese $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385516169 Date: 2006
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When Henry Day is seven years old, he is kidnapped by ageless beings called changelings, who leave another child in Henry's place, a boy who will be his duplicate. Haunted by memories, both boys are driven to search for the keys to who they once were before they switched places.
Suggested Reading: Contemporary Fantasy
Updated 2.14.06
- The Good Works of Ayela Linde
Author: Forbes, Charlotte
Publisher: Arcade $ 24 ISBN: 1559708077 Date: 2006
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From an O. Henry Prize–winner, this dazzling novel in stories marks the arrival of a powerfully original and beguiling new voice in American fiction.
The linked stories that make up this spare and beautifully written novel follow the life of Ayela, the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker, born in 1933 in the Texas border town of Santa Rosalia. - Publisher Marketing
Suggested Reading: Debuts
Updated 3.8.06
- Firebird
Author: Garcias y Robertson, R.
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765313561 Date: 2006
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A young orphan girl falls in love with a foreign knight, who's carrying with him the most precious artifact of the kingdom--the egg of the Firebird. The two set out on a wonderful quest, filled with spectacle, romance, and hairsbreadth escapes, to save the land and find a life together.
Suggested Reading: Cross Genres
Updated 3.8.06
- Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Author: Tiffany, Carrie
Publisher: Scribner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0743286375 Date: 2006
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Sensual, witty, and startlingly original, Tiffany's debut novel--about a young woman, her passionate relationship with an agricultural expert, and their efforts at scientific living--marks the arrival of a great new voice in fiction.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | All Stars
Updated 1.28.06
- Bust
Author: Bruen, Ken & Jason Starr
Publisher: Hardcase $ 6.99 ISBN: 0843955910 Date: 2006
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Two of crime fiction's hottest rising stars collaborate for the first time in this suspenseful story. Everything goes wrong when cheating husband Max Fisher hires a psychotic hitman to murder his wife.
Suggested Reading: Hard-Boiled | Noir Stars
Updated 3.16.06
- The Saddlemaker's Wife
Author: Fowler, Earlene
Publisher: Berkley $ 23.95 ISBN: 0425207781 Date: 2006
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After the death of her husband, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in California. She's even more shocked to learn the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. Driven to discover the whole story, Ruby discovers a legacy of pain and denial.
Updated 3.21.06
- The King of Lies
Author: Hart, John
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 031234161x Date: 2006
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When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface, and he sees his own carefully constructed facade begin to crack.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Debuts | Legal Stars
Updated 3.20.06
- Rabbit Factory
Author: Karp, Marshall
Publisher: Macadam Cage $ 25 ISBN: 1596921749 Date: 2006
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Rambunctious Rabbit--Rambo to his fans--is an American icon and a theme park's biggest draw. When the actor inside the Rambo costume and two other theme park employees are murdered, LAPD detectives must catch the madman before he brings the family entertainment giant to its knees.
Updated 4.10.06
- Field of Darkness
Author: Read, Cornelia
Publisher: Mysterious $ 22.95 ISBN: 089296023x Date: 2006
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A tough-talking, shotgun-toting debutante gets in over her head investigatinga pair of cold case murders in this assured, thrilling first novel.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Debuts
Updated 3.20.06
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