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 2007

Nonfiction

  • The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
    Author: Nicholson, Juliet
    Publisher: Grove $ 25 ISBN: 9780802118462 Date: 2007
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    The Perfect Summer is a vividly rendered glimpse of the twilight of the Edwardian era.
    Suggested Reading: All Stars
    Updated 3.5.07

Fiction

    • The Pesthouse
      Author: Crace, Jim
      Publisher: Nan A Talese $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385520751 Date: 2007
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      With spectacular originality and the ability to move readers effortlessly into the world of his imagination, Crace imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love.
      Updated 3.2.07
    • If You Awaken Love
      Author: Elon, Emuna
      Publisher: Toby $ 14.95 ISBN: 9781592641451 Date: 2007
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      Set in Israel between the Six Day War and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, If You Awaken Love is the intensely moving story of a stormy and spiritual young girl and her love-hate relationships with her childhood sweetheart, with her father, and with God. - Publisher Marketing
      Updated 2.12.07
    • In War Times
      Author: Goonan, Kathleen Ann
      Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780765313553 Date: 2007
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      Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war. Sam is seduced by a mysterious female physicist that is teaching one of his courses, and given her plans for a device that will end the war, perhaps even end the human predilection for war forever. But the device does something less, and more, than that. After his training, Sam is sent throughout Europe to solve both theoretical and practical problems for the Allies. He spends his free time playing jazz, and trying to construct the strange device. It's only much later that he discovers that it worked, but in a way that he could have never imagined. - Publisher Marketing
      Updated 3.15.07
    • The Religion
      Author: Willocks, Tim
      Publisher: FSG $ 26 ISBN: 9780374248659 Date: 2007
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      "Willocks, a novelist (Bad City Blues) and screenwriter (Sin), strikes gold with this epic account of the Turkish siege of Malta in 1565--the first of a planned trilogy featuring Mattias Tannhauser, the son of a Saxon blacksmith".--Publishers Weekly, starred review.
      Suggested Reading: All Stars
      Updated 2.1.07

    Crime Fiction

    • Free Fire
      Author: Box. C.J.
      Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399154270 Date: 2007
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      In this newest mystery, former game warden Joe Pickett returns to investigate a murder in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park.
      Suggested Reading: All Stars
      Updated 3.15.07
    • Always
      Author: Griffith, Nicola
      Publisher: Riverhead $ 26.95 ISBN: 9781594489358 Date: 2007
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      Aud Torvingen--"a hero who makes La Femme Nikita look like a Powerpuff Girl" ("Details")--returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting justice and to confront new adversaries: her own vulnerability and desire.
      Updated 3.15.07
    • The Various Haunts of Men
      Author: Hill, Susan
      Publisher: Overlook $ 25.95 ISBN: 9781585678761 Date: 2007
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      Updated 1.17.06
    • The Savage Garden
      Author: Mills, Mark
      Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399153532 Date: 2007
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      Set in the Tuscan hills, this new work by the bestselling author of Amagansett is the story of two murders, 400 years apart--and the ties that bind them.
      Suggested Reading: All Stars
      Updated 3.5.07
    • Ghostwalk
      Author: Stott, Rebecca
      Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385521062 Date: 2007
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      A stunningly original display of scholarship and imagination, and a gripping story of desire and obsession, Stott's novel is a rare debut that will change the way many readers think about scientific innovation, the force of history, and time itself.
      Updated 3.30.07
    • Kept: A Victorian Mystery
      Author: Taylor, D.J.
      Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061146084 Date: 2007
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      Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian schemes, and a great train robbery--all are interwoven in this wonderfully imaginative novel that reinvents Victorian life and passions with dazzling skill and wit.
      Updated 3.2.07

    Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages

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