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.

November 2008

Nonfiction

• Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business
  Author: Mordden, Ethan
  Publisher: St Martins $ 32.95 ISBN:9780312375430 Date: 2008
  Booklist Kirkus LJ
  When Florenz Ziegfeld started in theater, it was flea circus, operetta and sideshow all rolled into one. When he left it, the glamorous world of "show-biz" had been created. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 10.1.08
  

Fiction

• Esther's Inheritance
  Author: Marai, Sandor
  Publisher: Random $ 24 ISBN: 9781400045006 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  What is it like to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for more than 20 years. Esther's Inheritance presents a remarkable narrator who delivers a story as both tragedy and comedy.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• The World According to Bertie
  Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
  Publisher: Random $ 13.95 ISBN: 9780307387066 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  The fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series continues the story of the ever-talented, ever-six-year-old Bertie.
  Updated 10.1.08
• A Mercy
  Author: Morrison, Toni
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307264237 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW LJ
  Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences.
  Updated 10.31.08
  
• Testimony
  Author: Shreve, Anita
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780316059862 Date: 2008
  LJ Booklist
  At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking is the fact that the sex acts were caught on videotape. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Shreve delivers a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller.
  Updated 10.1.08
  

Crime Fiction

• The Face of a Killer
  Author: Burcell, Robin
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590583746 Date: 2008
  LJ
  FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick questions the guilt of the man about to be executed for her fatheras murder twenty years earlier. The first stirrings of doubt occur when one of her forensic sketches on an unrelated case brings forth memories about her fatheras homicide that shead hoped to forget. A mysterious envelope arrives in the mail on the anniversary of her fatheras death. She opens the packet and discovers a blackmail letter written by her father, an old photo of his army buddies, and a deposit slip from a bank long closed. Refusing to believe that her father was involved in any blackmail scheme, she searches for evidence to clear his name. Her investigation leads to a trail of corruption by high-ranking US political officials, and a meticulous and deadly cover-up by the military and the CIA. The more Special Agent Fitzpatrick digs into her fatheras past, the more she finds it riddled with dark secrets and truths, including the fact that her fatheras seemingly ordinary military career was anything but stellar or even routine. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• The Good Thief's Guide to Paris
  Author: Ewan, Chris
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312376451 Date: 2008
  LJ Booklist
  Charlie Howard--mystery writer and professional thief--is flush with the success of his Paris book-reading when he agrees to show a novice how to break into an apartment. The next day, Charlie's hired to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting--from the same address.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
  Author: Fowler, Christopher
  Publisher: Bantam $ 24 ISBN: 9780553805024 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  Fans of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next mysteries will delight in the latest adventures of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. The case files of the PCU never disappoint when it comes to uniquely atmospheric and rewarding mysteries.
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir
  Author: Westerson, Jeri
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312379773 Date: 2008
  LJ
  In the late 14th Century, disgraced former knight Crispin Guest finds himself in the midst of a situation involving a murdered tradesman, a missing religious artifact, a family dispute and a perplexing mystery.
  Updated 10.1.08