Archive for the ‘New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer’ Category
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Tuesday Fiction
Linwood Barclay – Never Look Away - 9780553807172
Maeve Binchy – Whitethorn Woods – 9780307455239
Alan Bradley – The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag - 9780385342315
Clive Cussler – The Silent Sea – 9780399156259
Philippe Djian – Unforgivable – 9781439164419
Linda A. Fairstein – Hell Gate – 9780525951612
Sebastian Faulks – A Week in December – 9780385532914
Carol Goodman – Arcadia Falls – 9780345497536
David Gordon – The Serialist – 9781439158487
Shilpi Somaya Gowda – Secret Daughter – 9780061922312
James Hynes – Next – 9780316051927
Chang-rae Lee – The Surrendered – 9781594489761
Alice Lichtenstein – Lost – 9781439159828
Liane Merciel – The River Kings’ Road - 9781439159118
Jo Nesbo – The Devil’s Star – 9780061133978
Lionel Shriver – So Much for That – 9780061458583
Mark Spragg – Bone Fire – 9780307272751
Danielle Trussoni – Angelology – 9780670021475
Randy Wayne White – Deep Shadow – 9780399156267
Gabrielle Zevin – The Hole We’re In – 9780802119230
Tuesday Nonfiction
Laura Bell – Claiming Ground - 9780307272881
David Grann – The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - 9780385517928
Stephen S. Hall – Wisdom – 9780307269102
Chelsea Handler – Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang – 9780446552448
Sam Keen – In the Absence of God - 9780307462299
Charla Krupp – How to Never Look Fat Again – 9780446547475
Frances Mayes – Every Day in Tuscany - 9780767929820
Roger Tory Peterson – Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America – 9780547152462
Roger Tory Peterson – Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America - 9780547152707
Piggyback –
Final Fantasy XIII: The Complete Official Guide – 9780307468376
Karl Rove – Courage and Consequence – 978143919191057
Ngugi wa Thiong’o – Dreams in a Time of War - 9780307378835
Emily White - Lonely - 9780061765094
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Monday Fiction
J.T. Ellison – The Cold Room – 9780778327141
Jill Marie Landis – Heart of Stone – 9780310328728
Kenzaburo Oe – Changeling – 9780802119360
Monday Nonfiction
Julie De Jardins – The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science – 9781558616134
Tuesday Fiction
Sonya Chung – Long for This World – 9781416599623
Robert Goddard – Long Time Coming – 9780385343619
Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – 9780446563086
Erin Hart – False Mermaid – 9781416563761
Sam Lipsyte – The Ask – 9780374298913
Howard Frank Mosher – Walking to Gatlinburg – 9780307450678
Dexter Clarence Palmer – The Dream of Perpetual Motion – 9780312558154
Jodi Picoult – House Rules – 9780743296434
Helen Simonson – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – 9781400068937
Erica Spindler – Blood Vines – 9780312363925
Kate White – Hush – 9780061576614
Susan Wilson – One Good Dog – 9780312571252
Jason F. Wright – The Cross Gardener – 9780425233283
Tuesday Nonfiction
Hugh Ambrose – The Pacific – 9780451230232
Anil Ananthaswamy – The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe – 9780618884681
Stephen Batchelor – Confession of a Buddhist Atheist – 9780385527064
Anthony Brandt – The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage – 9780307263926
Zoe FitzGerald Carter – Imperfect Endings: A Daughter’s Tale of Life and Death – 9781439148242
Charlotte Chandler – I Know Where I’m Going: Katherine Hepburn, a Personal Biography – 9781439149287
Kelly Corrigan – Lift – 9781401341244
Ellen Fitzpatrick – Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation – 9780061969843
John McPhee – Silk Parachute – 9780393068566
Michael O’Brien – Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon – 9780374215811
Mitt Romney – No Apology – 9780312609801
Geneen Roth – Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything – 9781416543077
Nick Trout – Love is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian About Hope, Humility, and Everyday Miracles – 9780767931977
Gina Welch – In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey Into the Heart of the Evangelical Church – 9780805083378
Wednesday Fiction
Peter Nathaniel Malae – What We Are – 9780802119070
Wednesday Nonfiction
Claire Harman – Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World – 9780805082586
Thursday Fiction
Robert Coover – Noir – 9781590202944
Peter Hedges – The Heights – 9780525951131
Louise Welsh – Naming the Bones – 9781847672551
Thursday Nonfiction
Paul Johnson – Jesus: A Biography, from a Believer – 9780670021598
Jimmy McDonough – Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen – 9780670021536
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Monday
Jerome Charyn – The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson – 9780393068566
Susan Wise Bauer – The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade – 9780393059755
Tuesday
Fiction
John Banville – The Infinities – 9780307272799
Elaine Beall – Another Life Altogether – 9780385530040
Bianca D’Arc – Once Bitten, Once Dead – 9780758247292
Frank Delaney – Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show – 9781400067831
James Grippando – Money to Burn – 9780061556302
Kim Harrison – Black Magic Sanction – 9780061138034
N.K. Jemisin – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – 9780316043915
Marti Leimbach – The Man from Saigon – 9780385529860
Robert B. Parker – Split Image – 9780399156236
S.J. Parris – Heresy – 9780385531283
J.D. Robb – Fantasy in Death – 9780399156243
Danielle Steel – Big Girl – 9780385343183
Simon Van Booy – The Secret Lives of People in Love – 9780061766121
Tuesday
Nonfiction
John Curran – Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making – 9780061988363
Frank Koller – Spark: How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First Century Corporation: Lessons from Lincoln Electric’s Unique Guaranteed Employment Program – 9781586487959
Roland Lazenby – Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon – 9780345510839
G.J. Meyer – The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty – 9780385340762
Ted Morgan – Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War – 9781400066643
John Otis – Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerillas, American Hostages and Buried Treasure – 9780061671807
Henry Petroski – The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems – 9780307272454
David Shields – Reality Hunger: A Manifesto – 9780307273536
Phyllis Theroux – The Journal Keeper: A Memoir – 9780802118974
Judith Warner – We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication – 9781594487545
Wednesday
Dan Simmons – Black Hills – 9780316006989
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
George Bishop, Jr. – Letter to My Daughter – 2/16/10
Chris Cleave – Little Bee – 2/16/10
Monika Fagerholm – The American Girl – 2/16/10
Joe Hill – Horns – 2/16/10
Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins – Matthew’s Story – 2/18/10
Jon MacGregor – Even the Dogs – 2/16/10
Henning Mankell – The Man From Beijing – 2/16/10
Ken Mercer – Slow Fire – 2/16/10
Michael Palmer – The Last Surgeon – 2/16/10
Anna Lawrence Pietroni – Ruby’s Spoon – 2/16/10
Elif Shafak – The Forty Rules of Love – 2/18/10
Vickie M. Stringer – Dirtier Than Ever – 2/16/10
Eric Van Lustbader – Last Snow – 2/16/10
Non-Fiction
Elif Batuman – The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them – 2/16/10
Deborah Blum – The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York – 2/18/10
Paula Butturini – Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy – 2/18/10
Janine Driver & Mariska van Aalst – You Say More Than You Think: Use the New Body Language to Get What You Want! The 7 Day Plan – 2/16/10
Cathy Erway – The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove – 2/18/10
Jerry Fodor & Massimo Piattelli-Palmerini – What Darwin Got Wrong – 2/16/10
Ken Gormley – The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr – 2/16/10
Shane Harris – The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State – 2/18/10
Chip & Dan Heath – Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard – 2/16/10
Tommy James & Martin Fitzpatrick – Me, The Mob, and The Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells – 2/16/10
Malcolm W. Nance – An End to Al Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden’s Jihad and Restoring America’s Honor – 2/16/10
Alexandra Penney – The Bag Lady Papers: The Priceless Experience of Losing It All – 2/16/10
Max Watman – Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine – 2/16/10
Jack Weatherford – The Secret History of Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire – 2/16/10
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Lorraine Adams – The Room and the Chair – 2/9/10
Richard Bausch – Something is Out There: Stories – 2/9/10
Alex Berenson – The Midnight House – 2/9/10
Sarah Blake – The Postmistress – 2/9/10
Carla Buckley – The Things That Keep Us Here – 2/9/10
Jackie Collins – Poor Little Bitch Girl – 2/9/10
Tim Green – False Convictions – 2/10/10
Adam Haslett – Union Atlantic – 2/9/10
Lori Lansens – The Wife’s Tale – 2/10/10
Thomas Lynch – Apparition and Late Fictions: A Novella & Stories – 2/8/10
Eric Puchner – Model Home – 2/9/10
Peter Straub – A Dark Matter – 2/9/10
Paul Theroux – A Dead Hand – 2/11/10
Adriana Trigiani – Brava, Valentine – 2/9/10
Non-Fiction
Ted Conover – The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today – 2/9/10
Eve Ensler – I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World – 2/9/10
Timothy Ferris – The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature – 2/9/10
Mark L. Gardner – To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West – 2/9/10
Peter Hessler – Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory – 2/9/10
James S. Hirsch – Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend – 2/9/10
Jonathan Krohn – Defining Conservatism: The Principles That Will Bring Our Country Back – 2/9/10
Matt Labash – Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys – 2/9/10
Robert H. Mnookin – Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight – 2/9/10
Alice Montgomery – Susan Boyle: Dreams Can Come True – 2/9/10
Stephanie Saldana – The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith – 2/9/10
Kevin Salwen & Hannah Salwen – The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back – 2/9/10
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Susan Abulhawa – Mornings in Jenin – 2/2/10
Andre Aciman – Eight White Nights – 2/2/10
Steven Amsterdam – Things We Didn’t See Coming – 2/2/10
Chris Bohjalian – Secrets of Eden – 2/2/10
Ben Bova – Able One – 2/2/10
Clare Clark – Savage Lands – 2/2/10
Lauren Conrad – Sweet Little Lies – 2/2/10
Don DeLillo – Point Omega – 2/2/10
Louise Erdrich – Shadow Tag – 2/2/10
Kristin Hannah – Winter Garden – 2/2/10
Robert Harris – Conspirata – 2/2/10
Zachary Mason – The Lost Books of the Odyssey – 2/2/10
Mark Mills – The Information Officer – 2/2/10
Lisa Moore – February – 2/2/10
James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge – Worst Case – 2/1/10
Henry Porter – The Bell Ringers – 2/2/10
Dan Rhodes – Little Hands Clapping – 2/4/10
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport – 2/2/10
Kelli Stanley – City of Dragons – 2/2/10
Non-Fiction
Elizabeth Bard – Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes – 2/1/10
Nadine Cohodas – Princess Noire: The Tumultous Reign of Nina Simone – 2/2/10
Christopher Corbett – The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West – 2/2/10
Brian Dillon – The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives – 2/2/10
David Dosa – Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat – 2/2/10
Lori Gottlieb – Marry Him!: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough – 2/4/10
Stephen Green – Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality, and an Uncertain World – 2/3/10
Gary Greenberg – Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease – 2/2/10
Marilyn Johnson – This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All – 2/2/10
Julie Klausner – I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters and Other Guys I’ve Dated – 2/2/10
Joel Kotkin – The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 – 2/4/10
Catherine Millet – Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M. – 2/2/10
Lynne Olsen – Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour – 2/2/10
Henry M. Paulson – On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System – 2/1/10
Brenda Peterson – I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth – 2/2/10
Rebecca Rosen – Spirited: Connect to the Guides All Around You – 2/2/10
Jenny Sanford – Staying True – 2/5/10
Sam Sheridan – The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game – 2/2/10
Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – 2/2/10
Vanity Fair – Vanity Fair’s Presidential Profiles: Defining Portraits, Deeds, and Misdeeds of 43 Notable Americans — And What Each One Really Thought About His Predecessor – 2/1/10
Dr. Marc Wallack & Jamie Colby – Back to Life After a Heart Crisis: A Doctor and His Wife Share Their 8-Step Cardiac Comeback Plan – 2/4/10
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Noah Boyd – The Bricklayer – 1/26/10
William Boyd – Ordinary Thunderstorms – 1/26/10
Tim Dorsey – Gator A-Go-Go – 1/26/10
Ralph Ellision – Three Days Before the Shooting – 1/26/10
Robin Hobb – Dragon Keeper – 1/26/10
Kay Hooper – Blood Ties – 1/26/10
Thomas Mullen – The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers – 1/26/10
Kenneth Wishnia – The Fifth Servant – 1/26/10
Non-Fiction
A. Roger Ekirch – Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped – 1/25/10
Seth Godin – Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – 1/26/10
Ozzy Osbourne – I am Ozzy – 1/25/10
Dani Shapiro – Devotion: A Memoir – 1/26/10
Michael Shelden – Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years – 1/26/10
Susan Hand Shetterly – Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town – 1/26/10
Meg Whitman – The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life – 1/26/10
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Jami Attenberg – The Melting Season – 1/21/10
Jane Borodale – The Book of Fires – 1/21/10
T.C. Boyle – Wild Child: And Other Stories – 1/21/10
Bernard Cornwell – The Burning Land – 1/19/10
Sara Donati – The Endless Forest – 1/19/10
Joshua Ferris – The Unnamed – 1/18/10
Jack Higgins – The Wolf at the Door – 1/19/10
Sadie Jones – Small Wars – 1/19/10
Marian Keyes – The Brightest Star in the Sky – 1/21/10
Kimberla Lawson Roby – Be Careful What You Pray For – 1/19/10
Stuart Woods – Kisser – 1/19/10
Non-Fiction
Ira Berlin – The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations – 1/21/10
Eric Blehm – The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan – 1/19/10
Nick Flynn – The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir – 1/18/10
Joseph Stiglitz – Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy – 1/18/10
Kevin Sampsel – A Common Pornography: A Memoir – 1/19/10
Patti Smith – Just Kids – 1/19/10
Shankar Vendantam – The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives – 1/19/10
Gary Wills – Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State – 1/21/10
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Melanie Benjamin – Alice I Have Been – 1/12/10
Amy Bloom – Where the God of Love Hangs Out – 1/12/10
John Burdett – The Godfather of Kathmandu – 1/12/10
Robert Crais – The First Rule: A Joe Pike Novel – 1/12/10
Amy Greene – Bloodroot – 1/12/10
Goldstein, Rebecca – 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction – 1/12/10
Mo Hayder – Skin – 1/12/10
Beth Hoffman – Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt – 1/12/10
David Hosp – Among Thieves – 1/11/10
Charlie Huston – Sleepless – 1/12/10
Elizabeth Kostova – The Swan Thieves – 1/12/10
John Lescroart – Treasure Hunt – 1/12/10
Maaza Mengiste – Beneath the Lion’s Gaze – 1/11/10
Ian Rankin – Doors Open – 1/15/10
Sam Shepard – Day Out of Days: Stories – 1/12/10
Alexander McCall Smith – The Unbearable Lightness of Scones – 1/12/10
Robert Stone – Fun with Problems: Stories – 1/12/10
Lauren Willig – The Betrayal of the Blood Lily – 1/12/10
Nonfiction
William J. Bennett – A Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes–America 1988 to 2008 – 1/12/10
Peter Biskind – Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America – 1/12/10
Alex Ben Block and Lucy Autrey Wilson – George Lucas’s Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success – 1/12/10
Kate Braestrup – Marriage and Other Acts of Charity – 1/13/10
Dr. Larry Crabb – 66 Love Letters: Discover the Larger Story of the Bible One Book at a Time – 1/12/10
Randi Hutter Epstein – Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank – 1/11/10
Nick Flynn – The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir - 1/11/10
John Gillespie and David Zweig – Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions – 1/12/10
Elena Gorokhova – A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir – 1/12/10
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin – Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime – 1/12/10
Malcolm Jones – Little Boy Blues: A Memoir – 1/12/10
Bruce Eric Kaplan – I Love You, I Hate You, I’m Hungry: A Collection of Cartoons – 1/12/10
Jaron Lanier – You Are Not a Gadget – 1/12/10
Roberta Lee, M.D. – The Superstress Solution – 1/12/10
David Maraniss – Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss – 1/12/10
Judith Martin – Miss Manners’ Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding – 1/11/10
Barbara and Allan Pease – Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love – 1/12/10
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Belinda Bauer – Blacklands – 1/5/10
Tracy Chevalier – Remarkable Creatures – 1/5/10
Barbara Delinsky – Not My Daughter – 1/5/10
Bill Flanagan- Evening’s Empire – 1/5/10
David Malouf – Ransom – 1/5/10
Leila Meacham – Roses – 1/6/10
Spencer Quinn – Thereby Hangs a Tail – 1/5/10
Matthew Reilly – The Five Greatest Warriors – 1/5/10
Ali Shaw – The Girl with the Glass Feet – 1/5/10
Daniel Suarez – Freedom – 1/7/10
Anne Tyler – Noah’s Compass – 1/5/10
Non-Fiction
Elizabeth Gilbert – Committed: A Skeptic Make Peace with Marriage – 1/5/10
Charles Glass – Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation – 1/7/10
Paul Ingrassia – Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster – 1/5/10
George Obama and Damien Lewis – Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival – 1/5/10
Richard Reeves – Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift June 1948-May 1949 – 1/5/10
William Sears and Martha Sears – Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer – 1/6/10
Michael Waddell – Hunting Booger Bottom: Life Lessons from the Field – 1/5/10
Alison Weir – The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn – 1/5/10
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