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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.

October 2008

Nonfiction

• The Big Necessity
  Author: George, Rose
  Publisher: Holt $ 26 ISBN: 9780805082715 Date: 2008
  Booklist Kirkus LJ PW
  An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste, The Big Necessity takes aim at the taboo and reveals everything that matters about how people do--and don't--deal with their own waste.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey
  Author: Least Heat-Moon, William
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 27.99 ISBN: 9780316110259 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  In his previous book Blue Highways, " Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Now, the author is back on the backroads, in this lyrical, funny, and touching account of his series of journeys into small-town America.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• The Wordy Shipmates
  Author: Vowell, Sarah
  Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594489990 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities.
  Updated 10.1.08
  

Fiction

• A Country Called Home
  Author: Barnes, Kim
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307268952 Date: 2008
  PW LJ Booklist
  From the author of the acclaimed memoir and Pulitzer Prize finalist In the Wilderness comes a luminous novel of youthful idealism, of faith and madness, of love and family.
  Updated 8.18.08
  
• The Ghost in Love
  Author: Carroll, Jonathan
  Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 9780374161866 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The luminous and marvelously inventive world depicted in The Ghost in Love shows what happens when people discover that they have become the masters of their own fate.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• Fault Lines
  Author: Huston, Nancy
  Publisher: PGW $ 14 ISBN: 9780802170514 Date: 2008
  PW LJ Booklist
  From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Huston comes a profound and poetic story that traces four generations of a single family from present-day California to World War II-era Germany.
  Updated 8.18.08
  
• Serena
  Author: Rash, Ron
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061470851 Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist
  An award-winning writer pens this Gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement, in his biggest, most accessible novel to date.
  Updated 9.8.08
  

Crime Fiction

• When Will There Be Good News?
  Author: Atkinson, Kate
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316154857 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist LJ
  Atkinson's Jackson Brodie, hero of the national bestsellers Case Histories and One Good Turn, returns in an intense new literary thriller where three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Glass of Time
  Author: Cox, Michael
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393067736 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  Like its beguiling and intelligent ("New York Times Book Review") predecessor, this work is a page-turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• Ex-KOP
  Author: Hammond, Warren
  Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765312747 Date: 2008
  PW
  Heartbreak and redemption for the flawed hero of the noir-SF thriller KOP.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Flesh House
  Author: Macbride, Stuart
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312382636 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  When body parts show up in a container at Aberdeen's harbor, they kick off Scotland's largest manhunt in 20 years--since the last time they had pursued Kenneth Wiseman. A brutal killer, Wiseman had been acquitted on a technicality. But now police are certain he's at work again.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Messengers of Death
  Author: Magnan, Pierre
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312387563 Date: 2008
  PW
  Last year Death in the Truffle Wood introduced renowned French crime writer Pierre Magnan to rave American reviews. Now the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette is back in a second delectable mystery set in Provence.
  Emile Pencenat is in a cemetery, designing his own ornate tomb. In a disused postbox by the gate he discovers an envelope addressed to a Mlle Veronique Champourcieux. He is puzzled, but being a former postman, he dutifully purchases a stamp and posts the letter. When the body of this same Mlle Veronique is later discovered---pinned to her own piano by a bayonet attached to an ancient rite---Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve one of the most bizarre crimes imaginable.
  Tautly plotted and brimming with suspense, The Messengers of Death is a story of dark vengeance and avarice that will thrill and intrigue Magnan's ever-growing audience in the English-speaking world.- Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08