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.

September 2010

Nonfiction

• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  Author: Roach, Mary
  $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780393068474 Date: 2010
  Kirkus LJ
  Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Roach discovers, it's possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth.
  Updated 8.9.10
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
  Author: Vaillant, John
  $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780307268938 Date: 2010
  PW LJ
  A haunting, gripping exploration of predators and prey, and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal increasingly threatened by interaction with humans, this work recreates the hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia's Far East.
  Updated 8.9.10

Fiction

• Nashville Chrome
  Author: Bass, Rick
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780547317267 Date: 2010
  PW Booklist
  Late in 1959, the Brown siblings--Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed--were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. Lyrical and nuanced, Nashville Chrome vividly evokes an era in American music, while presenting a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one family.
  Updated 8.9.10
• Maybe This Time
  Author: Crusie, Jennifer
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780312303785 Date: 2010
  Booklist
  The New York Times-bestselling author of Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation delivers her long-awaited novel, in which a woman is approached by her ex-husband to become caregiver to two orphaned children in a creepy old haunted house. What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and a jealous fianc.
  Updated 7.12.10
• Room
  Author: Donoghue, Emma
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316098335 Date: 2010
  PW Kirkus LJ
  Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
  Updated 8.9.10
• Lady Lazarus
  Author: Lang, Michelle
  $ 14.99 ISBN: 9780765323170 Date: 2010
  Booklist
  Descended from the legendary witch of Ein Dor, Magdalena Lazarus alone holds the power to summon the angel Raziel and stop Hitler and his supernatural minions from unleashing total war in Europe.
  Suggested Reading: Witches
  Updated 9.3.10
• Skippy Dies
  Author: Murray, Paul
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780865479432 Date: 2010
  Kirkus PW Booklist LJ
  Why does Skippy, a 14-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Why Skippy dies and what happens next unravels a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined.
  Updated 8.9.10

Crime Fiction

• The Vaults
  Author: Ball, Toby
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780312580735 Date: 2010
  PW
  Ball presents a dystopian period thriller in which a chilling series of events leads three different men to join in exposing the legacy of a radical program for punishing murderers.
  Updated 7.12.10
• Hypothermia
  Author: Indridason, Arnaldur
  $24.99 ISBN: 9780312569914 Date: 2010
  PW Booklist LJ
  One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage. Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time, he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing 30 years before.
  Updated 8.9.10
• Liar Liar: Cat Deluca
  Author: Larsen, K.J.
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590587256 Date: 2010
  LJ
  Private Investigator Cat DeLuca and her Pants on Fire Detective Agency have a reputation for catching cheaters. It's a skill Cat mastered when married to her run-around ex, Johnnie Ricco. Life takes a strange turn when a reporter for the "Chicago Tribune" (Rita Polansky) masquerades as a client with a liar-liar husband. Rita retains Cat to follow Chance Savino, a steamy guy with a pocketful of smuggled diamonds. Can Cat solve the case before she becomes the next victim?
  Updated 8.9.10