Featured Titles 2009
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 sometimes listed.
January 2009
- American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
Author: Rinella, Steven
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385521680Date: 2009
PW
In 2005, Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo in the Alaskan wilderness. In this narrative of that hunt, Rinella's erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with history, science, and the natural world.
Updated 11.3.08
- The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Author: Baker, Tiffany
Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446194204 Date: 2009
LJ PW
In this family saga, unearthed secrets lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually breaks the Morgan family apart forever. However, one woman's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.
Updated 11.31.08
- Miles from Nowhere
Author: Mun, Nami
Publisher: Penguin $ 21.95 ISBN: 9781594488542 Date: 2008
LJ Booklist
In raw and beautiful prose, debut novelist Mun delivers the story of a young woman who is at once tough and vulnerable, world-weary and naive, faced with insurmountable odds and yet fiercely determined to survive. In the process, Mun creates one of the most indelible characters in recent fiction.
Updated 11.31.08
- Land of Marvels
Author: Unsworth, Barry
Publisher: Nan Talese $ 26 ISBN: 9780385520072 Date: 2009
Kirkus Lj
Unsworth, a writer with an "almost magical capacity for literary time travel" ("New York Times Book Review") has written a thriller set in 1914, in which he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
Updated 12.30.08
- The Messenger
Author: Burke, Jan
$ 25 ISBN: 9780743273879 Date: 2009
PW
In Burke's first supernatural thriller, a salvage diver becomes enslaved to a creature who calls to him from the wreckage of a 19th-century ship and orders him to hunt down Tyler Hawthorne, a solitary man who has heard the last thoughts of the dying for more than two centuries.
Updated 10.31.08
- Judas Kiss
Author: Ellison, J.T.
Publisher: $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780778326298 Date: 2009
PW
Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson investigates the brutal murder of a young pregnant woman. After the victim is linked to an amateur porn Web site featuring underage kids, an old adversary uses the footage to implicate Jackson in a murder.
Updated 11.3.08
- The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Author: Huston, Charlie
Publisher: Ballantine $ 25 ISBN: 9780345501110 Date: 2009
PW
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Shotgun Rule and Six Bad Things comes a swift and stylish novel of blood and guts in the City of Angels.
Updated 11.3.08
- Nemesis
Author: Nesbo, Jo
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061655500 Date: 2009
Kirkus PW
Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction.
Updated 12.30.08
- A Beautiful Place to Die
Author: Nunn, Malla
$ 25 ISBN: 9781416586203 Date: 2009
PW
Screenwriter Nunn draws on her true-life experience growing up in Africa to create this darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. Detective Emmanuel Cooper is caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make for dangerous times.
Updated 10.31.08
- Eclipse
Author: Patterson, RIchard North
Publisher: Holt $ 26 ISBN: 9780805087727 Date: 2009
PW
The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder--Eclipse combines a thrilling narrative with a vivid look at the human cost of the global lust for oil.
Updated 10.31.08
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