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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.

June 2009

Nonfiction

• K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude
  Author: Carlson, Peter
  $ 27 ISBN: 9781586484972 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America.
  Updated 5.21.09
  

Fiction

• Fragment
  Author: Fahy, Warren
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780553807530 Date: 2009
  PW
  A television crew stumbles onto an unexplored island inhabited by terrifying creatures and seething with danger. There's no question it is the reality-TV chance of a lifetime, but will it be the death of the crew--or something more precious?
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
  Author: Howe, Katherine
  $ 26 ISBN: 9781401340902 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Written by an author completing a Ph.D. in New England Studies, and whose ancestors had been accused witches in Salem, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the trials in the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery and discovery.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Warbreaker
  Author: Sanderson, Brandon
  $27.95 ISBN: 9780765320308 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut Elantris, Sanderson proves again that he is today's leading master of what Tolkien called secondary creation--the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.
  Updated 5.18.09
  
• A Monster's Notes
  Author: Sheck, Laurie
  $ 30 ISBN: 9780307271051 Date: 2009
  Kirkus
  This bold, genre-defying book offers Mary Shelley's monster's story in his own words. Sheck's thrilling work is a luminous meditation on creativity and technology, alienation and otherness, and on the need to be understood.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Do Not Deny Me: Stories
  Author: Thompson, Jean
  $ 14 ISBN: 9781416595632 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist
  "If there are Jean Thompson characters, ' they're us, and never have we been so articulate and worthy of compassion. These stories confirm that no one is beneath her interest, or beyond her sure and seemingly limitless reach."--David Sedaris.
  Updated 5.15.09
  

Crime Fiction

• Sworn to Silence
  Author: Castillo, Linda
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312374976 Date: 2009
  LJ PW Booklist
  Kate Burkholder, who grew up in the Amish community before leaving for the outside world, has recently been appointed Chief of Police in her former hometown. What she returns to find is a world where good and evil collide.
  Updated 5.1.09
  
• The Dark Horse
  Author: Johnson, Craig
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670020874 Date: 2009
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  Interweaving classic noir sensibilities and humor with contemporary themes of social justice, Johnson's popular Walt Longmire mystery series transports readers to the sparse and rugged landscape of Wyoming.
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• Black Water Rising
  Author: Locke, Attica
  $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061735868 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  In the tradition of Greg Iles and Dennis Lehane comes a powerful new new voice in American fiction. Locke's debut thriller involves murder, greed, and redemption, set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Palos Verdes Blues: Jack Liffey
  Author: Shannon, John
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781605980379 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Jack is hired to find Blue, the missing teen-aged daughter of his ex-wife's best friend. As he investigates, Jack discovers that there is a low-intensity war going on in the L.A's posh Palos Verdes peninsula. The Bayboys, rich teen surfers, routinely vandalize cars and terrorize outsiders to enforce a locals-only policy for surfing at their own Lunada Bay. They have also started terrorizing the Mexican day-laborers who camp in the ravines between the mansions where they work as gardeners and houseboys. Jack discovers that Blue may have been bringing them food and supplies. When one stubborn Mexican boy decides that he wants to learn to surf in Lunada Bay, the feud turns violent, drawing in arsonists, angry bikers, racist border vigilantes, and Jack's daughter Maeve, who once again puts herself at risk to help her dad. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.15.09