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Mary Kay Andrews. Deep Dish. Her efforts to secure a job on a national cooking channel challenged by her unfaithful boyfriend, irresponsible sister, and interfering mother, television chef Gina Foxton finds her endeavor further complicated by her unexpected attraction to a rival chef with an off-putting redneck personality. By the author of Savannah Blues.

Charles Baxter. The Soul Thief. A graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with the people around him--alluring but elusive Theresa, fickle Jamie, and Jerome Coolberg, an enigmatic and compelling figure who seems to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel's past--until a total breakdown forces him to reconstruct his life.

Kevin Brockmeier. The View From the Seventh Layer. A new compilation of short fiction from the author of The Brief History of the Dead features the title story about an asocial young woman who ponders her troubled life and imagines an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity, as well as “The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device” and “Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth.”

Kalisha Buckhanon. Conception. Following in her single mother's footsteps when she becomes pregnant by an older man who promptly abandons her, fifteen-year-old Shivana believes that all black women fall into the same trap, until she meets Rasul, a teenager with problems of his own, with whom she forges a friendship that follows them into adulthood.

Jonathan Coe. The Rain Before It Falls. Ranging from wartime Shropshire to London and Toronto at the turn of the twenty-first century, a moving family saga examines the events and relationships that bind generations of a family, as the elderly Rosamund records her memories of her troubled cousin Beatrix and the tragedy that transformed all of their lives.

Edward Docx. Pravada. Arriving in St. Petersburg only to discover his mother dead in her apartment, thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Clarke and his twin sister, Isabella, struggle to make sense of their loss, unaware of their mother's abandoned son, Arkady, an amoral Russian predator out to claim his birthright, in a legacy of secrets, intrigue, and lies that follows one family across the generations.

Susan Gregg Gilmore. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen. In early 1970s Riggold, Georgia, Catherine Grace Cline, the daughter of the local Baptist preacher, spends her Saturday afternoons at the Dairy Queen, dreaming of escaping her small town for Atlanta, but after her dream becomes a reality, a return to her hometown following a tragedy transforms her perspective. A first novel.

Matt Haig. The Labrador Pact. Struggling with the typical throes of human life, from work and money to love and the trials of adolescence with the help of their loyal black Labrador, Prince, the Hunter family is aided in unusual ways by their canine friend when he perceives that they are becoming their own worst enemies.

Catherine Ryan Hyde. Chasing Windmills. From their first meeting on a downtown New York City subway, the lives of two very different people--Sebastian, an adolescent growing up under the watchful eye of a reclusive father, who spends his time in late-night subway rides, and Maria, a young single mother of two, desperate to escape her forbidding and abusive boyfriend--are changed forever by their relationship.

Indra Sinha. Animal’s People. Chronicles the relationship between Animal, an extraordinary street boy forced to go about on all fours after his back is twisted beyond repair during the devastating chemical plant accident in Bhopal, India, and Elli Barber, the young American doctor who has come to the area to open a free clinic for the suffering inhabitants of the region.

Lisa Tucker. The Cure for Modern Life. Rejected by his charity-minded ex-fiancée for his corporate beliefs, high-powered executive Matthew finds his life turned upside down by his unwitting involvement with a pair of homeless children. By the author of Shout Down the Moon.

Zane. Chocolate Flava 2: Succulent. An anthology of twenty-five erotic tales culled from the editor's popular Web site, EroticaNoir.com, represents the work of some of its most successful writers and features pieces written expressly for male or female readers.

Fantasy/Science Fiction—

Kelley Armstrong. Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld). Hope Adams, a gorgeous half-demon determined to use her powerful gifts only for good, undertakes a dangerous mission on behalf of the Cortez Cabal to infiltrate a Miami gang of bored, wealthy, and troublemaking supernaturals, but when she becomes entangled in their plots, she is forced to turn to her crooked werewolf ex-boyfriend and the heir to the Cortez Cabal for assistance.

Iain Banks. Matter: A Culture Novel. In a distant-future human-machine symbiotic society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, the Culture is threatened by ongoing wars, political upheavals, and alien intruders, in the first volume of a science fiction trilogy by the author of The Wasp Factory.

Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles in Love. Physically handicapped but charismatic military genius Miles Vorkosigan returns in an omnibus containing Komarr, in which he investigates an act of treachery against the domed planet of Komarr; A Civil Campaign, which follows his efforts to court the beautiful and reluctant widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson; and the novella, "Winterfair Gifts."

Simon Green. The Unnatural Inquirer: A Novel of the Nightside. John Taylor, a private detective with a special talent to locate anything or anyone, is hired to find a mysterious DVD purported to contain an actual recording of the afterlife by The Unnatural Inquirer, a notorious gossip rag for the Nightside, a secret area in London that marked by neverending night and populated by monsters and mythical beings.

Peter Hamilton. The Dreaming Void. In a high-tech, far future world, a great mystery remains, what lies inside the Void, a massive black hole lying at the center of the Intersolar Commonwealth universe and an area of space from which mysterious dreams are being projected that are transforming the lives of those who experience them, in the first volume in a new trilogy by the author of Pandora's Star.

Robin Hobb. Renegade’s Magic, Book Three (The Soldier Son Trilogy). A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Shaman's Crossing and Forest Mage finds wrongfully convicted Nevare Burvelle surrendering himself to the Speck magic with which he has been cursed, a decision that renders him subject to a violent alter ego.

Greg Keyes. The Born Queen (The Kingdom of Thorn & Bone). With the Briar King dead, dark forces wrangle for control of the land, and Anne Dare is forced to use all her skill and determination as she faces opposition, both material and magical, on all sides and she moves toward a final confrontation with her enemies, with the fate of all humankind at stake, in the conclusion of the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series.

Elizabeth Moon. Victory Conditions. In the fifth and final volume in the science fiction adventure series Vatta's War, Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name. By the Nebula Award-winning author of The Speed of Dark and Command Decision.

John Ringo & Travis Taylor. Manxome Foe. In the sequel to Into the Looking Glass and The Vorpal Blade, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship Vorpal Blade goes back into action when news arrives that a gate colony has fallen to an unidentified alien invasion, heading out to find out what happened to the colony, rescue survivors, and uncover the attackers' identity.

R.A. Salvatore. The Ancient ( Saga of the First King). Journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard in search of his long-lost father, Bransen Garibond becomes caught up in a desperate and dangerous battle against the brutal Samhaist, Ancient Badden, as several societies, caught up in their own conflicts, remain unaware of Ancient Badden's plots to destroy them all, in the first volume in a tetralogy.

S.M. Stirling. In the Courts of the Crimson Kings. American archaeologist Jeremy Wainman journeys to Mars to explore the long-dead cities of the Deep Beyond, joined by Martian mercenary Teyud Zha-Zhalt, linked to a deadly secret of a mysterious city where the last aging descendant of the Tollamune emperors holds the key to the Ancients that had created Martian civilization millions of years earlier.

John Varley. Rolling Thunder. A third generation Martian, Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--also known as Podkayne--joins the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy and is sent to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, as an entertainer, but she soon discovers that hidden dangers lurk everywhere, in the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Red Lightning and Red Thunder.

Historical Fiction—

Ruth Downie. Terra Incognita: A Novel of the Roman Empire. A sequel to Medicus finds army doctor Gaius Petrius Ruso journeying to early second-century Britannia in the hopes of securing a quieter life, only to encounter local turbulence, a circumstance that is complicated by the vengeful plans of his slave, Tilla.

Conn Iggulden. Genghis: Eagle of the Mountain. A sequel to Genghis: Birth of an Empire continues the story of the powerful leader as he embarks on a bold new quest to conquer the mighty Chin empire, leaving a trail of devastation behind as he makes his way to Yenking, capital of the empire, and prepares to lay siege to the city and starve it into submission.

Susan Fraser King. Lady Macbeth. An evocative fictional account of the life of the eleventh-century Queen Gruadh of Scotland describes how this female descendant of the country's royal line is married, left pregnant, widowed, and forced to wed her husband's murderer, the warlord Macbeth, and reveals how she fought to preserve her family's legacy regardless of the cost.

Mary Doria Russell. Dreamers of the Day. In the wake of the Great War and the devastating influenza pandemic of 1919, forty-year-old Ohio schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin decides to use her inheritance to take a trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land, where she meets T. E. Lawrence and Karl Weilbacher, a charming German spy with an intense interest in Lawrence.

Gene Wilder. The Woman Who Wouldn’t. In 1903, after suffering a breakdown on stage, Jeremy Webb, a violinist with the Cleveland Orchestra, is sent by the company to recover at a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany, where he meets the beautiful and reserved Clara Mulpas, a woman suffering from severe consumption and recovering from the aftereffects of a bad marriage.

Niall Williams. John. An epic tale based on John the Apostle's final years places the elderly, blind John in exile on the desolate island of Patmos with a small band of increasingly disillusioned followers, until the Roman emperor lifts the ban against Christianity, enabling John's return to the religiously torn region of Ephesus. By the author of Four Letters of Love.

Horror Fiction—

Kim Harrison. The Outlaw Demon Wails. Having trafficked in forbidden demon magic in order to save the lives of her friends, witch and runner Rachel Morgan investigates the death of her lover only to uncover a family secret that changes everything she has ever believed, a discovery that is further complicated by a demon's machinations.

Mystery—

Nancy Atherton. Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter. Her paranoia regarding her preschooler twins' safety erupting in the face of tales about a pale, blood-stained figure lurking in the nearby woods, Lori consults with her not-quite-departed Aunt Dimity and eventually stumbles upon a charismatic vagabond, a bitter old woman, and the truth about a forty-year-old murder.

Benjamin Black. The Silver Swan. With his personal life in turmoil, irascible Dublin pathologist Quirke gets in over his head once again when an old acquaintance asks him to investigate the apparent suicide of his young wife, Deirdre Hunt, and Quirke uncovers some dangerous secrets that had been better off hidden and that pose a grave danger to his loved ones. By the author of Christine Falls.

Rhys Bowen. Tell Me, Pretty Maiden: A Molly Murphy Mystery. With her turn-of-the-twentieth-century detective agency busier than ever, Irish-born P.I. Molly Murphy finds her life further complicated when she and her beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, stumble upon a mute young woman lying unconscious in the snow in Central Park. By the author of Oh Danny Boy.

Bill Crider. Of All Sad Words: A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery. Sheriff Dan Rhodes finds himself in the hot seat after persuading the county commissioners to open a Citizen's Sheriff's Academy when the students become the prime suspects in the explosion of a mobile home, a dead man in found nearby, and he encounters problems with the county's Web page, some suspicious new residents, and modern-day bootleggers.

P.C. Doherty. The Poisoner of Ptah. When three of Egypt's leading scribes die from poisoning during the signing of a peace treaty between Egypt and Libya, and a couple is found drowned, Amerotke, Chief Judge of the Halls of Two Truths, is assigned to investigate the crimes and to uncover the truth about the possible return of the cunning and lethal Poisoner of Ptah, in a mystery set in ancient Egypt.

Margaret Frazer. The Apostate’s Tale: A Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery. As Dame Frevisse and the nuns of St. Frideswide priory prepare for the end of Lent, their peaceful world is turned upside down by the arrival of Sister Cecely, the one-time nun who had fled the nunnery nine years earlier with her lover, who is seeking refuge for herself and her illegitimate son, but her coming has also brought danger, doubt, and possibly murder.

Andrew Greeley. Irish Tiger: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel. Psychic sleuth Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband, Dermot, come to the aid of two senior citizens, John Patrick Donlan and Maria Angelica Connors, whose unexpected, late-in-life romance is threatened by the animosity of Donlan's daughters and in-laws and by an unknown enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy their marriage, their careers, and their lives.

Lisa Lutz. Curse of the Spellmans. A follow-up to The Spellman Files finds Izzy struggling to retain her private investigator's license after a pseudo engagement and her fourth arrest, a challenge that is further complicated by David's marriage to Petra and Rae's teenage angst.

John McEvoy. Close Call. A former amateur boxer and failed advertising executive, Jack Doyle is hired as the publicity director at Monee Park, a struggling suburban Chicago race track owned by Celia McCann, but Doyle soon discovers that Celia is being threatened by thugs who are pressuring her to sell the valuable property to real estate developers. By the author of Blind Switch.

Louise Penny. The Cruelest Month: A Three Pines Mystery. When the charming, seemingly idyllic town of Three Pines is rocked by a killing during an impromptu Easter séance at a local haunted house, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is confronted by a web of baffling questions as he searches for a killer. By the author of A Fatal Grace.

Romance—

Joan Johnston. A Stranger’s Game. Picking up a pretty woman, Grace, outside his favorite bar in Texas, FBI agent Breed Grayhawk is unaware that she has just finished a wrongful sentence for murdering her parents and is breaking into her late father's colleagues' homes in search of evidence that will clear her name.

Lisa Kleypas. Blue-Eyed Devil. Returning to town two years after marrying a man of whom her family disapproves, rebellious heiress Haven Travis is determined to never again fall for the wrong man, but her vow is undermined by the presence of Hardy Cates, a sexy Texan from the wrong side of the tracks and an enemy of her family. By the author of Sugar Daddy.

Suspense—

Stephanie Barron. A Flaw in the Blood. With Prince Albert, the Queen's Consort, dying of typhoid, Queen Victoria summons Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor, a request that results in his beautiful ward narrowly escaping a murder attempt, the ransacking of his chambers, and the death of another young girl and leads him to believe that dark secrets and intrigues threaten the queen's troubled court.

Elizabeth Becka. Unknown Means. A sequel to Trace Evidence finds Cleveland forensic specialist Evelyn James investigating the murder of a wealthy woman in a high-security luxury building, a case with virtually no clues until subsequent deaths are linked to the first.

Karna Small Bodman. Gambit. Dr. Cammy Talbot, a leading expert on missile defense systems, is called in to investigate when three commercial American jetliners are shot out of the sky by unknown weaponry and finds herself in mortal jeopardy, stalked by unknown assassins, as she races against time to stop a ruthless mastermind with an ambitious campaign of global conquest.

Andrew Britton. The Invisible. The author of The American and The Assassin presents a new international thriller as recently retired CIA operative Ryan Kealey heads back into action when the president asks for his assistance to help resolve the brutal hijacking of a busload of Western adventurers in Pakistan, followed by the abduction of the U.S. Secretary of State.

Ken Bruen. Cross. With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway, in an investigation that brings him face to face with old ghosts and leads to a second killing, the burning death of the murdered boy's sister.

Tom Cain. The Accident Man. Hired to orchestrate a fatal accident in a Paris tunnel, hired killer Samuel Carver finds himself targeted by the forces that hired him when the job goes terribly wrong, a circumstance that compels him to execute the most daring feat of his career. A first novel.

Susan Choi. A Person of Interest. Wrongfully implicated when a mail bomb claims the life of a beloved computer scientist, math professor Lee receives a threatening letter that compels him to confront key events in his life, an exercise that inadvertently renders him all the more suspicious. By the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of American Woman.

Dan Fesperman. The Amateur Spy. Blackmailed into spying on an old Palestinian friend in Jordan, Freeman Lockhart is soon over his head in the turbulent waters of the Middle East, while in suburban Washington, Arab-American Aliyah Rahim, aware that her surgeon husband blames American officials for the death of her daughter, worries that he is plunging dangerously close to radicalism.

Bill Floyd. The Killer’s Wife. Six years after her former husband had been sentenced to death for a series of brutal killings, Leigh Wren has built a new life for herself and her young son, until the father of one of her ex-husband's victims reveals her past, forcing her to confront her memories of life with a deviant serial killer and bringing her face to face with another, vicious murderer. A first novel.

Anne Holt. What Never Happens. Investigating a series of murders that has targeted Oslo's most high-profile citizens, police commissioner Adam Stubo and former FBI profiler Johanna Vik reluctantly join the case, only to discover that Johanna is a likely victim. By the author of What Is Mine.

Joshilyn Jackson. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Her suburban life thrown into chaos when she is visited by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old girl who has just drowned under suspicious circumstances, Laurel begins questioning the characters of her seemingly innocent neighbors with the help of her unpredictable sister. By the author of Between, Georgia.

Morag Joss. The Night Following. Moments after discovering that her doctor husband has been having an affair, a woman, driving along a winding country lane and possibly distracted by her personal anguish, fails to see the woman on the bicycle and strikes her, killing her instantly and then driving away, in a chilling psychological portrait of the repercussions of deception.

Laura Lippman. Another Thing to Fall: A Tess Monaghan Novel. When the production of a Hollywood film in Baltimore brings mayhem and murder to the area, private investigator Tess Monaghan finds her job complicated by the acting skills of her numerous suspects. By the author of What the Dead Know.

Michele Martinez. Notorious: A Novel of Suspense. Rendered a sole witness when the lawyer of a famous rap star under suspicion of murder is killed by a car bomb, federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas fears her relationship with a charismatic defense lawyer is compromising her credibility and learns unsettling truths about the victim.

Charles McCarry. The Better Angels. Originally published three decades ago, a tale by the author of Christopher's Ghosts follows a polarizing presidential election between a tall liberal candidate and a right-wing former businessman with ties to the energy industry, in a showdown that is complicated by threats from Islamic terrorists who would acquire nuclear technology in order to target American interests.

Julia Navarro. The Bible of Clay. When archaeologist Clara Tannenberg announces the discovery of clay tablets from the time of Abraham recounting stories from Genesis, she unleashes a series of plots involving antiquities smugglers, the Iraq War, and her ruthless grandfather. By the author of The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud.

Richard Price. Lush Life. Still living on the Lower East Side and waiting tables in a restaurant, thirty-five-year-old Eric Cash has every reason in the world to be jealous of Ike Marcus, a handsome, well-liked, ambitious young man on the way to the top, until he is supposedly gunned down by two street thugs while walking one night with Eric. By the author of Clockers.

Christopher Rice. Blind Fall. Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his Marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner. By the author of Light Before Day.

Peter Robinson. Friend of the Devil. Assisting a neighboring precinct with an investigation involving the murder of a disabled woman, Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot makes an unexpected link between the case and another involving a teen's death, a discovery that reveals the work of a serial killer.

Kelly Simmons. Standing Still. Kidnapped by an intruder who initially had targeted her daughter, Claire, a sufferer of acute panic disorder, finds herself imprisoned in a hotel with her abductor as her only companion, a trauma that forces her to reevaluate her life and threatens to shatter her sense of sanity.

Randy Wayne White. Black Widow. Entreated by his goddaughter to help pay off a blackmailer who videotaped her bachelorette party and then threatened to expose her debauchery, Doc Ford reluctantly agrees and then finds himself in danger when the extortionist releases the tape anyway, prompting a bridesmaid's suicide and a dangerous vengeance plot.

Stephen White. Dead Time. A follow-up to Dry Ice finds psychologist Alan Gregory struggling to adapt to a shaky marriage and new fatherhood, a situation that is complicated by his ex-wife's entreaty to help her find her pregnant surrogate.

NEW NON-FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY

Lewis Alsamari. Escape From Saddam: The Incredible True Story of One Man’s Journey.

F. Lee Bailey with Jean Rabe. When the Husband Is the Suspect: From Sam Sheppard to Scott Peterson—The Public’s Passion for Spousal Homicides.

Nicholson Baker. Human Smoke: The Beginning of the Second World War and the End of Civilization.

Charles Barber. Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Medicated a Nation.

Martha Beck. Steering by Starlight: How to Live Your Right Life No Matter What.

Bernice Bratter & Helen Dennis. Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women.

Andrew Bridge. Hope’s Boy: A Memoir.

Timothy Burke. The Paradiso Files: Boston’s Unknown Serial Killer.

Fidel Castro with Ignacio Ramonet. Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography.

Charlotte Chandler. Not The Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography.

Liz Clarke. One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation.

Rachel Corrie. Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie.

Alice Domar & Alice Lesch Kelly. Be Happy Without Being Perfect: How to Break Free From the Perfection Deception.

Jan Egeland. A Billion Lives: Frontlines of Humanity.

Michael K. Farr with Gary Brozek. A Million Is Not Enough: How to Retire with the Money You’ll Need.

Debbie Ford. Why Good People Do Bad Things: How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy.

Jenifer Fox. Your Child’s Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them.

Natalie Goldberg. Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir.

Lorna Goodison. From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People.

John Gray. Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress.

Patrick Gray III with Ed Gray. In Nixon’s Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate.

David Hajdu. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America.

Chris Hedges. I Don’t Believe in Atheists.

Deal Hudson. Onward Christian Soldiers.

Scott Huler. No Man’s Lands: One Man’s Odyssey Through the Odyssey.

Joshua Kendall. The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus.

David King. Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made War, Peace, and Love at the Congress of Vienna.

Michael Kodas. High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed.

Barbara Mertz. Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt.

Aaron David Miller. The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Search for Arab-Israeli Peace.

William Lee Miller. President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman.

Dee Dee Myers. Why Women Should Rule the World.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa. The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance and The Cutting Edge Science that Promises Hope.

Suze Orman. The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money.

Tudor Parfitt. The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Story of How The Fabled Ark Was Found.

Melody Peterson. Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.

Benjamin Skinner. A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern-Day Slavery.

Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. sTori Telling.

Michael Thompson & Teresa H. Barker. It’s a Boy! Understanding Your Son’s Development From Birth to Age 18.

Kate Torgovnick. Cheer! Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize.

Mick Wall. W.A.R. The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose.

Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith. Detox Strategy: Vibrant The Ultimate Anti-Aging Secret.

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