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.
July 2006
- Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina And the Drowning of New Orleans
Author: Horne, Jed
Publisher: Random $ 25.95 ISBN: 1400065526 Date: 2006
Kirkus
Katrina was a catastrophe deeply rooted in the politics and culture of the city that care forgot and of a nation that forgot to care. In Breach of Faith, Jed Horne has created a spellbinding epic of one of the worst disasters of our time. - Publisher Marketing
Suggested Reading: New Orleans
Updated 6.9.06
- Cockeyed: A Memoir of Blindness
Author: Knighton, Ryan
Publisher: Public Affairs $ 23.95 ISBN: 1586483293 Date: 2006
KirkusPW
Oliver Sacks meets David Sedaris--this irreverent, tragicomic, politically incorrect, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind and growing up illuminates not just the author's reality, but the reader's own.
Updated 4.10.06
- Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair With the Sea
Author: Norton, Trevor
Publisher: Da Capo $ 25 ISBN: 0306814870 Date: 2006
PW
A celebration of the creatures, the science, and the wonders of the ocean, by the marine biologist known as "Bill Bryson Underwater," this memoir takes readers to depths where the shapes of creatures living without sunlight defy imagination.
Updated 3.27.06
- Cellophane
Author: Arana, Marie
Publisher: Dial $ 24 ISBN: 0385336640 Date: 2006
PW Booklist
From noted writer and National Book Award finalist Arana comes a debut novel with all the power and grace of her acclaimed memoir, American Chica.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | Latino/Latina Stars
Updated 5.16.06
- Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
Author: Guene, Faiza
Publisher: Harvest $ 13 ISBN: 0156030489 Date: 2006
LJKirkus
Disarmingly funny and fresh, Gune's debut novel is a hopeful, wise, and intimate portrait of Arab immigrant life, as it follows Doria, a 15-year-old Muslim French girl living in the infamous Paradise projects of suburban Paris.
Suggested Reading: Debuts
Updated 5.10.06
- Between Georgia
Author: Jackson, Joshilyn
Publisher: Warner $ 22.99 ISBN: 0446524425 Date: 2006
BooklistKirkus
The author of Gods in Alabama returns with a heartwarming story of a young Southern woman caught between a decades-old family feud and the realization of her dreams.
Updated 5.10.06
- The Lies of Locke Lamora
Author: Lynch, Scott
Publisher: Spectra $ 23 ISBN: 0553804677 Date: 2006
Booklist
Debut author Lynch pens a witty and fast-paced narrative that is nearly as much of a con as the wily schemes of its hero.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | Adult Books for Teens | Alex Award Read-Alikes: Gaiman
Updated 5.4.06
- Turning's Delirium
Author: Paz Soldan, Edmundo
Publisher: Houghton $ 24 ISBN: 061854139x Date: 2006
KirkusPW
The town of Rio Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution--a war waged electronically, where computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the revolutionaries. This is an edgy story about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever-increasing gulfs between the global and the local, the virtual and the real.
Updated 5.22.06
- Glasshouse
Author: Stross, Charles
Publisher: Ace $ 24.95 ISBN: 0441014038 Date: 2006
PWKirkus
In the 27th century, interstellar travel is by teleport gates, and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities. On the run from an unknown enemy, the memory-less Robin volunteers to participate in a unique experimental civil order--a decision that places him at the mercy of the experimenters and his own unbalanced psyche.
Updated 5.10.06
- Dark Gold
Author: Angsten, David
Publisher: Thomas Dunne $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312343736 Date: 2006
Kirkus
Jack Duran embarks on a mission to Mexico in search of is incommunicado brother, Dan- with his college buddies Rock and Duff in tow. Following a trail of shady dealings, they soon discover that Dan was searching for an ancient shipwreck laden with gold-and the race to recover the treasure be-gins. Blinded by the prospect of ancient gold, they begin diving towards the shipwreck. Only, one by one, the divers being to disappear. Tension mounts when Jack witnesses a mysterious, and ghastly, sea creature who seems to be gurading the wreck. A fast-paced, high adventure thriller Dark Gold is an excicting tale of ancient gold, a deadly legend and a mythic creature.
Updated 5.10.06
- What Is Mine
Author: Holt, Anne
Publisher: Warner $ 24.99 ISBN: 0446578029 Date: 2006
KirkusBooklist
This gripping American debut from the most popular crime writer in Norway delves into the twisted psyche of a child killer and follows in the bestselling tradition of thrillers by Ian Rankin and Thomas Harris. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 5.16.06
- No Good Deeds
Author: Lippman, Laura
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060570725 Date: 2006
Kirkus
The unsolved murder of a prosecutor becomes too personal when Tess's boyfriend brings home a street kid who holds an important key to the case. Tess finds out how far official authorities will go to get their way. Soon she's facing felony charges, and the boy has gone into hiding beyond her reach.
Updated 4.10.06
- Still Life
Author: Louise, Penny
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312352557 Date: 2006
BooklistPWKirkus
A Debut Dagger honor book in the U.K., this work introduces an engaging series hero in Inspector Armand Gamache who commands his forces with integrity and quiet courage. Locals are convinced a murder was no more than a tragic hunting accident, but Gamache uncovers something more sinister.
Julia Spencer Fleming interviews Louise Penny
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Debuts
Updated 5.10.06
- 54
Author: Wu, Ming
Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 0151013802 Date: 2006
Kirkus
Set during the height of the Cold War--with the world divided into East and West--this novel features Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly in a cinematic romp that is by turns edgy social satire and modern comic send up.
Updated 5.10.06
- The Highly Effective Detective
Author: Yancey, Rick
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312347529 Date: 2006
PWLJ
A bumbling but determined detective employs the help of his loyal secretary--formerly his favorite waitress at the diner--to unravel his first case, a hit-and-run of a family of geese. What can only be called a wild goose chase quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder.
Suggested Reading: Debuts
Updated 5.16.06
Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.
- Clay
Author: Almond, David
Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.95 ISBN: 038573171x Date: 2006
BooklistKirkusPW
Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They're full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O'Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him--maybe some of their good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it's Stephen who sees something special in Davie.
Stephen's a gifted sculptor. One day as Davie looks on, Stephen brings a tiny figure to life. It's a talent he has, the gift of creation--and he knows that Davie has this talent, too. Davie allows Stephen to convince him to help bring a life-size figure to life--and Clay is born. Clay is innocent, but Stephen has special plans for him.
What has Davie helped to unleash on the world? - Publisher Marketing
Ages: 12-17 Category:
| Speculative Fiction
- Room One : A Mystery or Two
Author: Clements, Andrew
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 15.95 ISBN: 0689866860 Date: 2006
PW
A young boy living in rural western Nebraska investigates the connection between a mysterious face in the window of an empty house and the possible closing of the one-room school he attends.
Ages: 8-12 Category:
Fiction | Mystery
- The Bundle at Blackthorpe Heath
Author: Copeland, Mark
Publisher: Houghton $ 15 ISBN: 0618563024 Date: 2006
Kirkus
For his birthday, Art receives a brass spyglass from his grandfather, a respected insect circus ringmaster. No sooner than his grandfather tells him to use the spyglass for only good (no spying!), Art accidentally sees something he shouldn't.
Ages: 10-12 Category:
Fiction
- Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art
Author: Siebert, Diane | Stephen Johnson (ilt)
Publisher: Chronicle $ 17.95 ISBN: 0811850560 Date: 2006
SLJ
From New Hampshire's formidable Mount Washington to San Francisco's spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, the scenic treasures of the United States are brilliantly captured in this artistic tour de force, with inventive poems paired with compelling imagery.
Ages: 4-12 Category:
Poetry
- Here Be Monsters
Author: Snow, Alan
Publisher: Atheneum $ 17.95 ISBN: 0689870477 Date: 2006
Kirkus
Illustrated throughout with more than 500 of the author's incredible black-and-white drawings, this debut novel will entrance anyone who appreciates the unordinary and the extraordinary.
Ages: 8-14 Category:
Speculative Fiction
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