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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.

May 2008

Nonfiction

Fiction

• The Outlander
  Author: Adamson, Gil
  Publisher: $ ISBN: 9780061491252 Date: 2008
  PW
  Adamson's debut work is simply enough, a superb novel. . . . The frayed material of the North American west is rendered in an astoundingly fresh light. . . . a condition only occasioned by first rate fiction (Jim Harrison).
  Updated 4.8.08
  
• The White Tiger
  Author: Adiga, Aravind
  Publisher: Free $ 24 ISBN: 9781416562597 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  This rambunctious story of contemporary India shows how religion doesn't create morality, and money doesn't solve every problem--but a person can gets what he wants out of life by eavesdropping on the right conversations.
  Updated 2.26.08
  
• City of Thieves
  Author: Benioff, David
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670018703 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus LJ
  A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
  Updated4.24.08
  
• Dark Obsession: A Novel of Blackheath Moor
  Author: Chase, Allison
  Publisher: Signet $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780451223876 Date: 2008
  LJ
  They wed in haste--Nora Thorngoode, to save her ruined reputation, and Grayson Lowell, to rescue his estate from foreclosure. Soon the lover that Nora has married becomes a dark stranger. Can Grayson and Nora discover what really had happened the night his brother died, and free themselves as well?
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Enlightment
  Author: Freely, Maureen
  Publisher: Overlook $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590200742 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  The celebrated translator of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize-winning Snow offers an arresting vision of contemporary Turkey, in a story of first love, betrayal, and one American girl trapped in the fray.
  Updated 4.8.08
  
• Exiles
  Author: Hansen, Ron
  Publisher: FSG $ 23 ISBN: 9780374150976 Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist
  Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that had prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of silence with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, this novel dramatizes a passionate inner search.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Soul
  Author: Learner, Tobsha
  Publisher: Forge $ 14.95 ISBN: 9780765320100 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  Learner relates the story of Lavinia and Julia Huntington, passionate women separated by a century, yet trapped in similar emotional whirlpools that threaten to drown them and everyone they love.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Killing Rommel
  Author: Pressfield, Steven
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385519700 Date: 2008
  LJ Kirkus PW
  Hitler's legions have swept across Europe, leaving Churchill and the English isolated. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oil fields of the Middle East, in Pressfield's latest riveting historical novel.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.08
  

Crime Fiction

• Child 44
  Author: Smith, Tom Rob
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446402385 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Russia
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• The Calling
  Author: Wolfe, Inger
  Publisher: $ ISBN: 9780151013470 Date: 2008
  LJ PW
  When terminally ill patients are found gruesomely murdered in Port Dundas, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef finds herself tracking a truly terrifying serial killer across the country, while everything she had been barely holding together begins to spin out of control.
  Updated 4.8.08