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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.

May 2009

Nonfiction

• The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-And-Roller, and Prodigal Son
  Author: Connor, Myles & Jenny Siler
  $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780061672286 Date: 2009
  PW
  From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Boston's Museum of Fine Art, no museum had been off-limits to legendary art thief Connor. The Art of the Heist tells the story of a roller-coaster ride of a life, by a man who had been drawn to misadventure at every turn.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Paul Newman: A Life
  Author: Levy,Shawn
  $ 29.99 ISBN: 9780307353757 Date: 2009
  Kirkus
  Film critic and pop-culture historian Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of actor Paul Newman's life, offering a fascinating portrait of an extraordinarily gifted man, who gave back as much as he got out of life.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Annie's Ghost
  Author: Luxenberg, Steve
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9781401322472 Date: 2009
  Kirkus Booklist
  Combining the power of reportage with the intrigue of mystery, Annie's Ghosts explores the nature of self-deception and self-preservation. The result is equal parts memoir and riveting detective story as one son seeks to uncover family secrets.
  Updated 4.22.09
  

Fiction

• Sunnyside
  Author: Gold, Glen David
  $ 27.50 ISBN: 9780307270689 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW LJ
  From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Carter Beats the Devil comes a novel that dramatizes the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• The Four Corners of the Sky
  Author: Malone, Michael
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9781570717444 Date: 2009
  Booklist Kirkus
  From the masterful author of Handling Sin comes this riveting novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of family.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Censoring: An Iranian Love Story
  Author: Mandanipour, Shahriar
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780307269782 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist
  From one of Iran's most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers comes his first novel to appear in English--a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it's like to live, love, and be an artist in today's Iran.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• How to Sell
  Author: Martin, Clancy
  $24 ISBN: 9780374173357 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist
  Bobby Clark is just 16 when he drops out of school to follow his big brother Jim into the jewelry business. What follows is the story of a young man's education in two of the oldest human passions, love and money.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Woodsburner
  Author: Pipkin, John
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780385528658 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  On April 30, 1844, Henry David Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed 300 acres of the Concord woods. Against the background of Thoreau's fire, Pipkin's ambitious debut penetrates the mind of the young philosopher.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• The Red Wolf Conspiracy
  Author: Redick, Robert V.S.
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780345508836 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  A publishing sensation in England, The Red Wolf Conspiracy marks the debut of a gifted young writer. Scant years after a terrible war that shook empires, a 600-year-old ship sails for enemy lands and must deal with deadly assassins, treacherous mermaids, and monstrous slavers.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Bad to the Bone
  Author: Smith-Ready, Jeri
  $ 15 ISBN: 9781416551782 Date: 2009
  PW
  The sassy, sexy, and strikingly original follow-up to Smith-Ready's urban fantasy Wicked Game stars a feisty woman with a criminal past who takes a job at a radio station populated by vampire DJs.
  Updated 3.31.09
  

Crime Fiction

• A Trace of Smoke
  Author: Cantrell, Rebecca
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765320445 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW
  This suspenseful first novel follows an undercover crime reporter in Berlin in 1931 as she searches for her brother's killer, a trail that leads from the city's dark underbelly to the top ranks of the rising Nazi party.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Dark Places
  Author: Flynn, Gillian
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780307341563 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW
  "Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre."--Stephen King.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Last Child
  Author: Hart, John
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312359324 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist Kirkus
  Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller Down River, Hart returns with the story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Language of Bees
  Author: King, Laurie R.
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780553804546 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Stone's Fall
  Author: Pears, Iain
  $ 28.95 ISBN: 9780385522847 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW
  In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking "New York Times" bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears tells the story of John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War I, he was able to manipulate world markets.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Devlin Diary
  Author: Phillips, Christi
  $25 ISBN: 9781416527398 Date: 2009
  PW
  From the acclaimed author of The Rossetti Letter comes a haunting novel of intrigue, romance, and murder that shifts tantalizingly between present-day Cambridge, England, and Restoration-era London.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• In the Shadow of Gotham
  Author: Pintoff, Stephanie
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312544904 Date: 2009
  PW
  An atmospheric, taut, and truly original historical mystery, In the Shadow of Gotham features an engaging main character and a gorgeously rendered setting: turn-of-the-century New York.
  Updated 3.31.09