Featured Titles 2010

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.

October 2010

Nonfiction

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life
  Author: Bryson, Bill
  $ 28.95 ISBN: 9780767919388 Date: 2010
  Kirkus
  From one of the most beloved authors of our time--a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. Bryson's wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.
  Updated 8.9.10
• Travels in Siberia
  Author: Frazier, Ian
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780374278724 Date: 2010
  Kirkus PW
  The bestselling author of Great Plains delivers a dazzling Russian travelogue in which he trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region and writes about the geography, the resources, the natives people, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, and even the bugs.
  Updated 8.9.10

Fiction

• Gentleman Captain
  Author: Davies, J.D.
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780547382616 Date: 2010
  Kirkus Booklist
  Having sunk the first man-of-war under his command within weeks, Matthew Quinton is determined to complete his second mission without loss of life or honor. His suspicion grows that the previous captain of the "Jupiter" was murdered and many among his crew have something to hide.
  Updated 9.28.10
• The Blindness of the Heart
  Author: Franck, Julia
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780802119674 Date: 2010
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe's freshest young voices--a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family.
  Updated 9.28.10
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
  Author: Franklin, Tom
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780060594664 Date: 2010
  Booklist
  In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy, in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Hell at the Breech.
  Updated 9.3.10
• World and Town
  Author: Jen, Gish
  $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780307272195 Date: 2010
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius and daughter of an American missionary, starts over in a small New England town, where she is soon joined by a Cambodian-American family and an ex-lover, all of them looking for their own new lives.
  Updated 9.28.10
• Great House
  Author: Krause, Nicole
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 978039079982 Date: 2010
  PW Booklist
  Krauss pens a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
  Updated 9.3.10

Crime Fiction

• Innocent Monster
  Author: Coleman, Reed Farrel
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781935562207 Date: 2010
  Booklist
  The sixth in the NPR-favorite Moe Prager series features the PI getting older and facing the collapse of his second marriage.
  Updated 9.3.10
• Rogue Island
  Author: DeSilvia, Bruce
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780765327260 Date: 2010
  Booklist
  Someone is burning down the neighborhood that newspaper man Liam Mulligan grew up in, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence, Rhode Island, on his back, Mulligan must weed through a colorful array of characters to find the truth.
  Updated 9.3.10
• Thirteen Hours
  Author: Meyer, Deon
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780802119582 Date: 2010
  LJ Booklist
  When an American backpacker disappears in Cape Town, South Africa, panicked politicians know who to call: Detective Benny Griessel, who has just 13 hours to save the girl, save his career, and crack open a conspiracy which threatens the whole country.
  Updated 7.12.10
• Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime
  Author: Persson, Leif G.W.
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780307377456 Date: 2010
  Kirkus LJ
  Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm, Persson slowly unravels the complex web of international espionage, greed, sheer incompetence, and work by a poorly constructed Swedish intelligence force that in this fiction lead to the murder of the Swedish prime minister Olaf Palme.
  Updated 9.3.10
• The Unbelievers
  Author: Sim, Alastair
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780312621698 Date: 2010
  LJ
  Scotland's richest man has been shot dead and dumped down a well. Was the Duke of Dornoch murdered by one of the miners whose wages he cut because of market forces? Inspector Allerdyce and Sergeant McGillivry are on the case.
  Updated 9.3.10