Book Releases (April 2008)

:NEW FICTION:

Wicked City – Ace Atkins
Belong to Me – Marisa de los Santos
Primal Threat – Earl Emerson
Mary of Nazareth – Marek Halter
The Girl with No Shadow – Joanne Harris
Redemption – Lee Jackson
Fire in the Blood – Irene Nemirovsky
Three Girls and Their Brother – Theresa Rebeck
In the Age of Love – Michael Stein
The Ten Year Nap – Meg Wolitzer
The Deportees and Other Stories – Roddy Doyle (SHORT STORIES)
Kerplunk! Stories – Patrick McManus (SHORT STORIES)
Wild Nights! – Joyce Carol Oates (SHORT STORIES)
Like You’d Understand, Anyway: Stories – Jim Shepard (SHORT STORIES)
Wild Inferno – Sandi Ault (MYSTERY)
Dead of Winter – Don D’Ammassa (MYSTERY)
The Black Dove – Steve Hockensmith (MYSTERY)
The Headhunters – Peter Lovesey (MYSTERY)
A Grave in Gaza – Matt Beynon Rees (MYSTERY)
Salt River – James Sallis (MYSTERY)
Black Ships – Jo Graham (FANTASY)
Lavinia – Ursula LeGuin (FANTASY)
The New Weird – Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, eds. (FANTASY/SHORT STORIES)
The Devil’s Bones – Jefferson Bass
The Invisible – Andrew Britton
Mozart’s Ghost – Julia Cameron
Pleasure – Eric Jerome Dickey
The Shadow Year – Jeffrey Ford
Bulls Island – Dorothea Benton Frank
Bound – Sally Gunning
The Finder – Colin Harrison
And Sometimes Why – Rebecca Johnson
Blue-Eyed Devil – Lisa Kleypas
Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Master of Secrets – D.S. Lliteras
South of Shiloh – Chuck Logan
Son of a Witch – Gregory Maguire
The Philosopher’s Apprentice – James Morrow
Guilty – Karen Robards
Dead Heat – Joel C. Rosenberg
Miss Julia Paints the Town – Ann B. Ross
Ice Trap – Kitty Sewell
Certain Girls – Jennifer Weiner
The Spare Wife – Alex Witchel
Nightshade – Susan Wittig Albert (MYSTERY)
Winter Study – Nevada Barr (MYSTERY)
The Silver Swan – Benjamin Black (MYSTERY)
Zapped – Carol Higgins Clark (MYSTERY)
Where Are You Now? – Mary Higgins Clark (MYSTERY)
The Janissary Tree – Jason Goodwin (MYSTERY)
Pushing Up Daisies – Rosemary Harris (MYSTERY)
Death Walked In – Carolyn Hart (MYSTERY)
Innocence – David Hosp (MYSTERY)
Murder Melts in Your Mouth – Nancy Martin (MYSTERY)
The Killing Room – Peter May (MYSTERY)
Chat – Archer Mayor (MYSTERY)
Red Mandarin Dress – Qiu Xiaolong (MYSTERY)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive – Alexander McCall Smith (MYSTERY)
Small Favor – Jim Butcher (FANTASY)
The Iron Tongue of Midnight – Beverle Graves Myers (FANTASY)
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife – Linda Berdoll
The Ghost War – Alex Berenson
The Opposite of Love – Julie Buxbaum
The Accident Man – Tom Cain
The Blue Star – Tony Earley
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen – Susan Gregg Gilmore
City of the Sun – David Levien
Standing Still – Kelly Simmons
Windy City – Scott Simon
The Cure for Modern Life – Lisa Tucker
The Woman Who Wouldn’t – Gene Wilder
Learning to Drive – Katha Pollitt (SHORT STORIES)
A Killing Karma – Geraldine Evans (MYSTERY)
Compulsion – Jonathan Kellerman (MYSTERY)
Buckingham Palace Gardens – Anne Perry (MYSTERY)
Deadly Waters – Pauline Rowson (MYSTERY)
Blind Eye – Marilyn Todd (MYSTERY)
The Dark Lantern – Gerri Brightwell
Seen It All and Done the Rest – Pearl Cleage
Firefly Rain – Richard Dansky
The Painter from Shanghai – Jennifer Cody Epstein
The German Bride – Joanna Hershon
Chasing Windmills – Catherine Ryan Hyde
Genghis: Lords of the Bow – Conn Iggulden
The Painter of Battles – Arturo Perez-Reverte
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana – Anne Rice
Friend of the Devil – Peter Robinson
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
John – Niall Williams
Inferno – Ellen Datlow, ed. (SHORT STORIES)
A Flaw in the Blood – Stephanie Barron (MYSTERY)
Gas City – Loren D. Estleman (MYSTERY)
Charley’s Web – Joy Fielding (MYSTERY)
Obedience – Will Lavender (MYSTERY)
Bone Rattler – Eliot Pattison (MYSTERY)
The Cruelest Month – Louise Penny (MYSTERY)
An Incomplete Revenge – Jacqueline Winspear (MYSTERY)
Tangled Webs – Anne Bishop (FANTASY)
The Automatic Detective – A. Lee Martinez (SCI-FIC)
Victory Conditions – Elizabeth Moon (SCI-FIC)

:NEW NON-FICTION:

14,000 things to be happy about. – Barbara Ann Kipfer (152.42)
Discover Your Inner Wisdom – Char Margolis (153.83)
Happy for No Reason – Marci Shimoff (158)
I Don’t Believe in Atheists – Chris Hedges (211)
The Greatest Gift – Binka LeBreton (271.97)
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama – Pico Iyer (294.392)
Who Speaks for Islam? – John Esposito (297)
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West – Benazir Bhutto (297.272)
His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. – Geraldo Rivera (305.868)
A Crime So Monstrous: Modern-Day Slavery – E. Benjamin Skinner (306.362)
He’s Just Not Up for It Anymore – Bob Berkowitz (306.7)
Why Women Should Rule the World – Dee Dee Myers (320.082)
Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past – Bruce Bartlett (323.119)
The Party Faithful – Amy Sullivan (324.2736)
Amazing Grace – Eric Metaxas (326.8)
Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living – Doug Fine (333.72)
McMafia – Misha Glenny (364.106)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher – Kate Summerscale (364.1523)
A Natural History of North American Trees – Donald Peattie (582.16)
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex – Mary Roach (612.6)
Gluten-Free Girl – Shauna James Ahern (615.854)
Earth: The Sequel – Fred Krupp (621.042)
The Complete Flower Gardener – Karan Davis Cutler (635.9)
Rescuing Sprite – Mark Levin (636.709)
Cook with Jamie – Jamie Oliver (641.5)
The Take-Out Menu Cookbook – Carla Snyder (641.59)
Stirring It Up: How to Make Money & Save the World – Gary Hirshberg (658.408)
The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas – G. Richard Shell (658.85)
The Artist Within – Greg Preston (741.597)
Mini Cushions in Cross Stitch – Sheena Rogers (746.443)
Girls Like Us – Sheila Weller (782.421)
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams – Donald Bogle (791.4302)
Theme Parties Just for Kids…and Families, Too! – Pat Nekola (793.21)
Arnie & Jack: Golf’s Greatest Rivalry – Ian O’Connor (796.352)
Vindicated – Jose Canseco (796.357)
Major: A Black Athlete, A White Era – Todd Balf (796.609)
The Yeats Reader (821.8)
The Africa Book – Lonely Planet (916.04)
The National Parks of Canada – Kevin McNamee (917.1)
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs – Barbara Mertz (932)
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 – David Andelman (940.314)
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends – William Guarnere (940.5412)
ZigZag: Double Agent Eddie Chapman – Nicholas Booth (940.5486)
The Killing of Major Denis Mahon – Peter Duffy (941.508)
The Disinherited: The Making of Spanish Culture 1492-1975 – Henry Kamen (946)
Rule Number Two: Lessons Learned in a Combat Hospital – Heidi Kraft (956.7044)
What Hath God Wrought? The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 – Daniel Howe (973.5)
Eyewitness to the Civil War – Neil Kagan (973.7)
Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice – Eric Lichtblau (973.931)
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre – Charles Lane (976.82)
At Home with Illinois Governors – Dan Monroe (977.35)
The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir – Isabel Allende (BIOG)
From Harvey River: My Mother and Her Island – Lorna Goodison (BIOG)
Elton: The Biography – David Buckley (BIOG)
A Life with Karol – Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz (BIOG)
John McCain: An American Odyssey – Robert Timberg (BIOG)
Ethel Merman: A Life – Brian Kellow (BIOG)
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full – Conrad Black (BIOG)
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary – Gao Wenqian (BIOG)
Breaking News – Martin Fletcher (070.433)
A Reporter’s Life – Peter Jennings (070.92)
Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors – Bill Cosby (155.849)
God’s Problem – Bart Ehrman (231.8)
The Great Awakening – Jim Wallis (261.7)
Who Stole My Church? – Gordon MacDonald (262.001)
Zen and the Art of Happiness – Chris Prentiss (294.344)
The Lost Ark of the Covenant – Tudor Parfitt (296.493)
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair – William Poundstone (324.973)
The Next American Century – Nina Hachigian (327.73)
Critical: The Health Care Crisis – Tom Daschle (362.109)
The Fattening of America – Eric Finkelstein (362.1963)
Exceptional Women Environmentalists – Frances Rooney (Y363.7)
Strong at the Broken Places – Richard Cohen (616.044)
Be the Pack Leader – Cesar Millan (636.708)
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles – Jennifer Lee (641.013)
The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium International Cookbook – Donald Gazzaniga (641.5632)
Vegan Express – Nava Atlas (641.5636)
DIY Guide to Appliances – Steve Willson (643.6)
Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls – Noel Tichy (658.409)
Mosaics for the First Time – Reham Aarti Jacobsen (738.5)
Garage Sale & Flea Market Annual, 16th ed. (745.1)
Warman’s Antiques & Collectibles 2009 Price Guide – Ellen Schroy (745.1)
Paper Crafting with Carol Duvall – Carol Duvall (745.54)
Fleece Dog -- SINCO (745.592)
Expectant Little Knits – Suzanne Tourtillott (746.432)
Understanding Color – Marcia Moses (751.422)
Cheer! – Kate Torgovnick (791.64)
Around the World in 80 Rounds – David Wood (796.352)
Your Brain on Cubs (796.357)
Working at the Ballpark – Tom Jones (796.357)
One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation – Liz Clarke (796.72)
Escape from Saddam – Lewis Alsmari (956.7044)
The Age of Lincoln – Orville Vernon Burton (973.5)
The Age of American Unreason – Susan Jacoby (973.91)
Journals, 1952-2000 – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (973.91)
America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s – Laben Hill (Y973.92)
Little Heathens: An Iowa Farm During the Great Depression – Mildred Kalish (977.761)
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years – Julie Andrews (BIOG)
A Remarkable Mother – Jimmy Carter (BIOG)
The Intention Experiment – Lynne McTaggart (133.88)
Why Mars & Venus Collide – John Gray (155.904)
Power to the People – Laura Ingraham (306.0973)
Having an Affair? – Sarah Symonds (306.736)
Sell, Keep, or Toss? – Harry Rinker (332.024)
Living Like Ed – Ed Begley, Jr. (333.72)
Basics of Energy Efficient Living – Lonnie Wibberding (333.79)
The Execution of Willie Francis – Gilbert King (364.66)
Medieval Dress & Fashion – Margaret Scott (391.009)
Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World – Paul Stewart (508.866)
The Fellowship – John Gribbin (509.22)
On to Mars 2: Exploring & Settling a New World – Robert Zubrin (523.43)
Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World – Paul Chambers (599.67)
The Five Second Rule & Other Myths About Germs – Anne Maczulak (616.904)
Dealing with Food Allergies in Babies and Children – Janice Joneja (618.929)
ADHD & Me – Blake Taylor (618.9285)
Coleus: Rainbow Foliage for Gardens – Ray Rogers (635.933)
Legacy of the Dog – Toyoharu Kojima (636.7)
How to Feed a Teenage Boy – Georgia Orcutt (641.562)
The Sneaky Chef – Missy Chase Lapine (641.563)
Easy Exotics: Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World – Padma Lakshmi (641.5638)
Recipes for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet – Raman Prasad (641.5638)
400 Recipes: Wok & Stir-Fry – Jenni Fleetwood (641.774)
Organize Your Life – Ronni Eisenberg (640.43)
Simplify Your Space – Marcia Ramsland (648.8)
The Hard Truth About Soft Skills – Peggy Klaus (650.1)
Joy at Work – Dennis Bakke (658.314)
Hand Tool Essentials – Popular Woodworking (684.082)
Success with Tablesaws – Michael Burton (684.083)
Jointer & Planer Fundamentals – Rick Peters (684.083)
Furniture-Making Techniques – David Charlesworth (684.104)
Residential Windows – John Carmody (690.182)
The Good House Book – Clarke Snell (690.837)
Fresh Coat: Simple Painting Makeovers – Shannon Kaye (698.14)
30,000 Years of Art (700.9)
Art of Sketching (741.2)
Cyclopedia Anatomicae – Gyorgy Feher (743.49)
Decoupage: Design, Create, Display – Leslie Linsley (745.546)
Cards That Pop Up, Flip & Slide – Michael Jacobs (745.5941)
500 Ideas for Small Spaces – Kimberley Seldon (747.1)
Color Idea Book – Robin Strangis (747.94)
Turner: The Late Seascapes – James Hamilton (759.2)
Games of Patience or Solitaire with Cards – William Dick (795.43)
The Match: The Day Golf Changed Forever – Mark Frost (796.352)
The Greatest Game: The Playoff of ’78 – Richard Bradley (796.357)
Complete Guide to Trailering Your Boat – Bruce Smith (797.1)
Ron Carlson Writes a Story – Ron Carlson (808.02)
The New Writer’s Handbook 2007 (808.02)
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting – Syd Field (808.023)
Redneck Dictionary III – Jeff Foxworthy (817.54)
Carnage and Culture – Victor Hanson (904.7)
U.S. Presidents: A Guide to Authenticating Autographs – Joseph Liberkowski (929.88)
The Signing of the Magna Carta – Debbie Levy (942.033)
Invisible Nation – Quil Lawrence (956.7)
1812: The War That Forged a Nation – Walter Borneman (973.52)
A Terrible Glory: Custer & the Little Bighorn – James Donovan (973.82)
A Matter of Justice: The Civil Rights Revolution – David Nichols (973.921)
Marie Therese, Child of Terror – Susan Nagel (BIOG)
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power – Virginia Rounding (BIOG)
You’ll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac – Edie Kerouac-Parker (BIOG)
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt – Amanda Stuart (BIOG)
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction – Thomas Ryan (142.78)
Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely (153.83)
Be Happy Without Being Perfect – Alice Domar (155.633)
Where Did I Leave My Glasses – Martha Weinman Lear (155.671)
You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay (158)
This is Not the Life I Ordered – Deborah Stephens (158)
What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love & Marriage – Amy Sutherland (158.2)
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare – David Hajdu (302.232)
The Middle-Class Millionaire – Russ Alan Prince (305.52)
Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist – Richard Feldman (323.43)
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA – Nick Taylor (331.137)
The National Grasslands – Francis Moul (333.741)
McIlnenny’s Gold – Jeffrey Rothfeder (338.766)
Crossing the Yard: 30 Years as a Prison Volunteer – Richard Shelton (365.92)
Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler – Wade Rouse (373.22)
The Stuff of Thought – Steven Pinker (401)
The Story of Writing – Andrew Robinson (Y411)
Physics of the Impossible – Michio Kaku (530)
The Life of the Skies – Jonathan Rosen (598.072)
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream – Jennifer Ackerman (612)
Welcome to Your Brain – Sandra Aamodt (612.82)
Peripheral Neuropathy – Norman Latov (616.856)
The Telephone Gambit – Seth Shulman (621.385)
A History of the Kennedy Space Center – Kenneth Lipartito (629.478)
Agriculture: The Food We Grow & Animals We Raise – Julie Casper (Y630)
All Heart Family Cookbook – Kathy Kastan (641.5631)
Bake Until Bubbly: The Ultimate Casserole Cookbook – Clifford Wright (641.821)
Cookie Craft – Valerie Peterson (641.8654)
Architectural Trim – Nancy Berry (694.6)
Proust Was a Neuroscientist – Jonah Lehrer (700.105)
The Authentic Garden – Claire Sawyers (712.6)
Basics: Technical Drawing – Bert Bielefeld (720.284)
The Twisted Sisters Knit Sweaters – Lynne Vogel (746.432)
Drawing and Painting Plants – Cristina Brodie (758.5)
Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music – Phil Ramone (781.49)
Realityland: Adventures at Walt Disney World – David Koenig (791.068)
Standing Tall – C. Vivian Stringer (796.323)
The Best American Poetry 2007 (811.008)
Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner (910.4)
Around the World in 80 Dinners – Cheryl Jamison (910.41)
Around the World on Two Wheels – Peter Zheutlin (910.41)
When Asia Was the World – Stewart Gordon (950.1)
Panama Fever – Matthew Parker (972.875)
A Place We Called Home: A History of ISOH and ISSCS – Ruth Cobb (977.359)
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler – Judith Freeman (BIOG)
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front – Todd DePastino (BIOG)