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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.

April 2009

Nonfiction

• Summerworld: A Season of Bounty
  Author: Heinrich, Bernd
  $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780060742171 Date: 2009
  Booklist Kirkus
  From the bestselling author of Winter World comes this highly anticipated, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival during the summer season.
  Updated 3.31.09
  

Fiction

• A Reliable Wife
  Author: Goolrick, Robert
  $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781565125964 Date: 2009
  Kirkus
  Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• All Other Nights
  Author: Horn, Dara
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393064926 Date: 2009
  PW
  On Passover in 1862, Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself?
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Castle
  Author: Lennon, J. Robert
  $ 22 ISBN: 9781555975227 Date: 2009
  PW
  In this contemporary novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence, a returning resident in a small upstate New York town sets out to explore a forbidding and almost impenetrable forest--lifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deer--that is the site of an 18th-century Indian massacre.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Darling Jim
  Author: Moerk, Christian
  $ 25 ISBN:9780805089479 Date: 2009
  PW
  A modern gothic novel of suspense that reveals, through their diaries, the story of sisters who fall in love with a beguiling stranger, and of the town that turns a blind eye to his murderous ways. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Wake
  Author: Sawyer, Robert J.
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780441016792 Date: 2009
  PW
  Although Caitlin Decter is blind, she can effortlessly surf the Internet by following its complex paths clearly in her mind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Love or Something Like It
  Author: Shaw, Deidre
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781400067701 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Shaw's emotionally honest, clear-eyed debut novel follows a thirty-something woman forced to redefine love, career, and family after her young marriage falters.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Weight of Heaven
  Author: Umrigar, Thrity
  $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061472541 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist LJ
  From the bestselling author of The Space Between Us comes an emotionally-charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss.
  Updated 2.27.09
  
• Carpentaria
  Author: Wright, Alexis
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781416593102 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  An internationally acclaimed and award-winning literary sensation ("The New York Times Book Review"),Carpentaria portrays an indigenous people's struggle for justice, independence, equality, and identity.
  Updated 3.31.09
  

Crime Fiction

• In the Dark
  Author: Freeman, Brian
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312363291 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW
  A brutal unsolved murder case from Jonathan Stride's past is reopened and deadly secrets emerge, in bestselling author Freeman's newest thriller.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• The Killing Way
  Author: Hays, Tony
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765319456 Date: 2009
  LJ PW
  Britain's leaders have come to elect a new supreme king, and Arthur is favored. But when a young woman is brutally murdered and the blame is placed at Merlin's feet, Arthur's reputation is at stake and his enemies are poised to strike.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Shadow and Light
  Author: Rabb, Jonathan
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780374261948 Date: 2009
  LJ PW Booklist
  When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang and Alby Pimm, Hoffner finds this case taking him into the treacherous underbelly of Berlin.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Look Again
  Author: Scottoline, Lisa
  $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780312380724 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ PW
  Bestselling author Scottoline's writing is sharp, intelligent, funny, and hip. . . she gives fans of thrillers a good, twisty plot, lively characters, andan all-around fun read ("USA Today").
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Liar's Anonymous
  Author: Ure, Louise
  $25.95 ISBN: 9780312375867 Date: 2009
  Kirkus Booklist LJ PW
  A roadside assistance operator hears a man being killed while she's on the phone with him and now she's the only witness--to murder.
  Updated 2.27.09