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New Book Releases (October 2008)

:NEW FICTION:

Delia’s Crossing – V.C. Andrews
The Disorder of Longing –
Natasha Bauman
Supreme Courtship –
Christopher Buckley
The Ghost in Love –
Jonathan Carroll
Secrets –
Jude Deveraux
The Eleventh Man –
Ivan Doig
Grace –
Richard Paul Evans
Sea of Poppies –
Amitav Ghosh
I See You Everywhere –
Julia Glass
The Shiksa Syndrome –
Laurie Graff
First Daughter –
Eric Van Lustbader
Serena –
Ron Rash
Wedding Belles –
Haywood Smith
Deadly Beautiful –
Sam Baker (MYSTERY)
A Spoonful of Poison –
M.C. Beaton (MYSTERY)
Hounded to Death –
Rita Mae Brown (MYSTERY)
Angel’s Star –
Alafair Burke (MYSTERY)
The Brass Verdict –
Michael Connelly (MYSTERY)
A Poisoned Mind –
Natasha Cooper (MYSTERY)
Skeleton Lake –
Mike Doogan (MYSTERY)
Black Ship –
Carola Dunn (MYSTERY)
A Mortal Curiosity –
Ann Granger (MYSTERY)
Remains to Be Seen –
Jim Ingraham (MYSTERY)
Fuzzy Navel –
J.A. Konrath – (MYSTERY)
Red Knife –
William Kent Krueger (MYSTERY)
Flesh House –
Stuart MacBride (MYSTERY)
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday –
Alexander McCall Smith (MYSTERY)
Lover’s Knot –
Clare O’Donohue (MYSTERY)
The Night Stalker –
James Swain (MYSTERY)
Paul of Dune –
Brian Herbert (SCI-FIC)
Star Wars: Order 66 –
Karen Traviss (SCI-FIC)
One Fifth Avenue
– Candace Bushnell
Ms. Hempel Chronicles – Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
The Sealed Letter – Emma Donoghue
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa – Nicholas Drayson
A Patent Lie – Paul Goldstein
The Golden Thread – Amanda Harte
Liberty – Garrison Keillor
Thank You for All Things -- Sandra Kring
The Given Day – Dennis Lehane
The Hard Way – Julie Luongo
A Cedar Cove Christmas – Debbie Macomber
The Darker Side -- Cody McFadyen
Art in America – Ron McLarty
Scorch – Marc Paoletti
A Cure for Night – Justin Peacock
The King’s Gold – Arturo Perez-Reverte
Goldengrove – Francine Prose
The Age of Dreaming – Nina Revoyr
The Silver Linings Playbook – Matthew Quick
The Letters – Luanne Rice
The Lucky One – Nicholas Sparks
Pecking Order – Omar Tyree
Without a Backward Glance – Kate Veitch
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (SHORT STORIES)
The Development -- John Barth (SHORT STORIES)
Fine Just the Way It Is – Annie Proulx (SHORT STORIES)
The Tale of Briar Bank – Susan Wittig Albert (MYSTERY)
When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson (MYSTERY)
Cat in the Sapphire Slipper – Carole Nelson Douglas (MYSTERY)
The Last Embrace – Denise Hamilton (MYSTERY)
Hit and Run – Gerald Hammond (MYSTERY)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson (MYSTERY)
Borderlands – Brian McGilloway (MYSTERY)
Cezanne’s Quarry – Barbara Corrado Pope (MYSTERY)
Exit Music – Ian Rankin (MYSTERY)
Heat Lightning – John Sandford (MYSTERY)
In the Night of the Heat – Blair Underwood (MYSTERY)
Hot Mahogany – Stuart Woods (MYSTERY)
The Bell at Healey Head – Patricia McKillip (FANTASY)
Juggler of Worlds – Larry Niven (SCI-FIC)
After the Downfall – Harry Turtledove (FANTASY)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Sean Williams (SCI-FIC)


:NEW NON-FICTION:

Haunted Illinois – Troy Taylor (133.1)
This I Believe II
(170.44)
A Visual History of the English Bible –
Donald Brake (220.52)
Beloved Disciple: The Misunderstood Legacy of Mary Magdalene –
Robin Jones (226.092)
A Deadly Misunderstanding –
Mark Siljander (261.27)
God in the White House –
Randall Balmer (261.7)
Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat –
Lisa Harper (277.308)
Guyland: The Perilous Workd Where Boys Become Men –
Michael Kimmel (305.242)
Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power –
John Harwood (320.973)
The Closing of the American Border –
Edward Alden (325.73)
Old World, New World –
Kathleen Burk (327.73)
A Million is Not Enough: How to Retire with the Money You Need –
M. Farr (332.024)
The Dirty Dozen –
Robert Levy (347.732)
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America –
Nortin Hadler (362.109)
Reading the OED –
Ammon Shea (423.028)
Evolution for Everyone –
David Sloan Wilson (576.801)
Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient –
Kathy Harrison (613.6)
Fitness Swimming –
Emmett Hines (613.716)
Sex, Science and Stem Cells –
Diana Degette (616.027)
Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating –
Roger Gould (616.8526)
The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book –
Marjorie Greenfield (618.2)
Mother Warriors –
Jenny McCarthy (618.9285)
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat –
Vicki Myron (636.809)
The Spice Merchant’s Daughter –
Christina Arokiasamy (641.638)
The Everything Resume Book –
Nancy Schuman (650.142)
Breakdowns –
Art Spiegelman (741.597)
Extreme Pumpkins –
Tom Nardone (745.5941)
Extreme Pumpkins II – Tom Nardone (745.5941)
Felt Frenzy –
Heather Brack (746.046)
Good Design Can Change Your Life –
Ty Pennington (747)
Painting on Glass & Ceramics –
Karen Embry (748.3)
Painting with Acrylics –
Gabriel Martin (751.426)
Here’s the Story –
Maureen McCormick
Warrior Girls –
Michael Sokolove (796.083)
Between Boardslides and Burnout –
Tony Hawk (796.22)
The Galloping Ghost: Red Grange –
Gary Andrew Poole (796.332)
Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ --
Nicholas Katzenbach (973.922)
The War Within –
Bob Woodward (973.931)
The Wordy Shipmates –
Sarah Vowell (974.088)
Letter to My Daughter –
Maya Angelou (BIOG)
Shakespeare’s Wife –
Germaine Greer (BIOG)
The Kennedys: Amidst the Gathering Storm –
Will Swift (BIOG)
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination–
Elizabeth McCracken (BIOG)
Michelle: A Biography –
Liza Mundy (BIOG)
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity –
Bill O’Reilly (BIOG)
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession –
Anne Rice (BIOG)
Microsoft Office 2007
– Robert Grauer (005.5)
Guinness World Records 2009 (032.02)
The Art of Influence – Chris Widener (153.852)
Acedia and Me – Kathleen Norris (248.862)
American Crescent – Imam Hassan Qazwini (297.82)
Video Games & Your Kids – Hilarie Cash (306.48)
The Film Club – David Gilmour (306.8742)
Free Ride: John McCain and the Media -- David Brock (328.73)
Green, Inc.: How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad – Christine MacDonald (333.72)
Planet Google -- Randall Stross (338.761)
In a Time of War: West Point's Class of 2002 -- Bill Murphy, Jr. (355.009)
Hot, Flat, and Crowded – Thomas Friedman (363.7)
American Lightning – Howard Blum (364.1523)
Hack – Melissa Plaut (388.41)
Healing Jewelry – Mickey Baskett (615.851)
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind – Joan Borysenko (616.891)
Distorted – Lorri Benson (618.9285)
Success with Organic Fruit – Yvonne Cuthbertson (634.048)
Indoor Gardening the Organic Way – Julie Bawden-Davis (635.965)
Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th ed. – Paula Begoun (646.72)
Overcoming School Anxiety – Diane Mayer (649.1)
The First Billion is the Hardest – T. Boone Pickens (650.92)
Crazy Quilts – Cindy Brick (746.46)
Conversations with Woody Allen – Eric Lax (791.43)
War as They Knew It: Woody Hayes & Bo Schembechler -- Michael Rosenberg (796.332)
Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers’ Companion 2008 (796.51)
Titanic’s Last Secrets – Brad Matsen (910.91)
Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide – Jerome Pohlen (917.304)
The Devil We Know: The New Iranian Superpower – Robert Baer (955.054)
War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq – Richard Engel (956.7044)
The Forever War – Dexter Filkins (956.7044)
The House at Sugar Beach – Helene Cooper (966.62)
Nothing to Be Frightened Of – Julian Barnes (BIOG)
The Legs are the Last to Go -- Diahann Carroll (BIOG)
Pieces of My Heart: A Life -- Robert Wagner (BIOG)