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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.

July 2007

Nonfiction

• Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
  Author: Mahoney, Rosemary
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 23.99 ISBN: 9780316107457 Date: 2007
  PW
  Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Despite the extreme conditions, her informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.
  Updated 6.27.07
• Shadow of the Silk Road
  Author: Thubron, Colin
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780061231728 Date: 2007
  Kirkus LJ
  To be travelling the Silk Road is to be travelling the history of the world: tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but also of ideas, religions and inventions. Thubron's chosen route passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. It is a brilliant account of an ancient world in modern ferment. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.1.07
• The World Without Us
  Author: Weisman, Alan
  Publisher: Thomas Dunne $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312347291 Date: 2007
  PW LJ Booklist
  Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
  Updated 6.28.07

Fiction

• The Devil You Know
  Author: Carey, Mike
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446580304 Date: 2007
  KirkusPW
  Felix Castor used to cast out demons for a living in London. But in a time when the supernatural realm is in upheaval, his skills are in renewed demand. With old debts to pay, Castor is left with no choice but to accept one final, well-paying assignment: a seemingly simple exorcism.
  Updated 6.1.07
• My Summer of Southern Discontent
  Author: Gayle, Stephanie
  Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780061236297 Date: 2007
  LJ
  This irresistible debut novel introduces one of the quirkiest, most memorable heroines ever to head south in search of adventure.
  Updated 6.4.07
• The Chess Machine
  Author: Lorh, Robert
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781594201264 Date: 2007
  Kirkus
  Based on a true story, this breathtaking historical adventure describes a legendary invention that astounded all who crossed its path. In 1770 Vienna, an unbeatable chess-playing automaton is unveiled. Hailed as a great invention, it is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion.
  Updated 5.21.07
• Wired
  Author: Maverick, Liz
  Publisher: Shomi $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780505527240 Date: 2007
  PW
  When a young woman learns that whole time lines and identites can be changed by the two mortal enemies who accost her on the street, she must decide who and what she wants to beand which man to trust and love.
  Updated 5.31.07
• Salt
  Author: Page, Jeremy
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670038688 Date: 2007
  PW
  A haunting, evocative portrait of three generations of a family, this debut novel explores the relationship between people and the landscape in which they live.
  Updated 5.31.07

Crime Fiction

• Songs of Innocence
  Author: Aleas, Richard
  Publisher: Hardcase $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780843957730 Date: 2007
  PW
  John Blake discovers a terrible secret when he investigates the apparent suicide of a college student who led a double life as a sensual masseuse.
  Updated 5.21.07
• Her Royal Spyness
  Author: Bowen, Rhys
  Publisher: Berkely $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780425215678 Date: 2007
  Booklist
  The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless 20-something member of the extended royal family. When an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family's estate for himself, winds up dead, Victorias most important job is to clear her family name.
  Updated 5.3.07
• Chain of Evidence
  Author: Disher, Garry
  Publisher: Soho $ 23 ISBN: 9781569474617 Date: 2007
  KirkusBooklistLJ
  

  Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles that has descended on the peaceful Mornington Peninsula, a resort community near Melbourne. A little girl has been abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show; it takes her mother twenty-four hours to report her missing. By then, hope is slim that the police will find the child before it is too late.

  Challis' sister's difficult husband disappeared from the Bluff four years ago; since then Meg has received nuisance mail that she assumes comes from him. While Challis is in town, an extra buried body is discovered when a new grave is dug in the local graveyard. A black plastic bag containing the corpse of Meg's husband is found on top of a coffin that was interred four years earlier.

  With two very different crimes to solve, Challis and Destry have their work cut out for them. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.31.07

• The Exception
  Author: Jungersen, Christian
  Publisher: Talese $ 26 ISBN: 9780385516297 Date: 2007
  LJPW
  A bestseller throughout Europe, this unique and intelligent thriller delivers a gripping dissection of the nature of evil and of the paranoia and obsessions that drive ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts.
  Updated 5.11.07
• The Red Dahlia
  Author: La Plante, Lynda
  Publisher: Touchstone $ 14 ISBN: 9781416532194 Date: 2007
  BooklistKirkusLJ
  Following the 2006 screen presentation of the Black Dahlia murder case, bestselling author La Plante's novel presents a completely new mystery centered around murders copycatting that strange, famous, and unsolved killing in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
  Updated 5.31.07
• The Tenderness of Wolves
  Author: Penney, Stef
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 9781416540748 Date: 2007
  LJKirkusPW
  In this brutal, epic debut novel, a man is found murdered and a 17-year-old boy is on the run. While vigilantes and rescue searchers head out to look for the fugitive, all the mother of the boy wants is her son back. She will do anything to see him home safe, even at the peril of her own life.
  Updated 5.31.07
• Pepperfish Keys: Detective Barrett Raines
  Author: Wimberley, Darryl
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312361396 Date: 2007
  PW
  Special Agent Barrett Raines and local television reporter Sharon Fowler become unlikely allies when a senators daughter is found dead in her fathers mansion, in this thought-provoking addition to this Gulf noir series.
  Updated 5.21.07