April 2009
April’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes ODD HOURS, the fourth Odd Thomas book that finds Dean Koontz’s young hero struggling to save several entire cities from total destruction; THE BOURNE SANCTION by Eric Van Lustbader, which centers on Jason Bourne’s investigation of a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect called the Black Legion; CERTAIN GIRLS, a sequel to Jennifer Weiner’s debut novel that catches up with protagonist Cannie Shapiro 13 years after her appearance in GOOD IN BED; WINTER STUDY, Nevada Barr’s 14th mystery featuring National Park Ranger/sleuth Anna Pigeon; UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, a collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri that takes us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers; SOMEBODY ELSE’S DAUGHTER, a psychological thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil from THE DOCTOR’S WIFE author Elizabeth Brundage; and APPLES & ORANGES, Marie Brenner's memoir of sibling rivalry that asks a universal question: How can two people from the same family turn out so entirely different?
FICTION:
7th HEAVEN
BLACK OUT
THE BOURNE SANCTION
CARELESS IN RED
CERTAIN GIRLS
COMFORT FOOD
CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT
DARK SUMMER
DEATH ANGEL
THE DIVORCE PARTY
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE
EYE OF THE LEOPARD: A Novel of Africa
THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
GIRLS IN TRUCKS
I SHALL NOT WANT: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne MysteryJulia Spencer-Fleming
Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312933999
LADY MACBETH
LAMBRUSCO
LAVINIA
LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH
THE MAP THIEF
THE NAME OF THE WIND
ODD HOURS
THE OUTCAST
PEACE
QUEEN OF BABBLE GETS HITCHED
RIVER OF HEAVEN
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE
SHE WAS
SNUFF
SO BRAVE, YOUNG AND HANDSOME
SOMEBODY ELSE’S DAUGHTER
STEALING ATHENA
THE STORY OF FORGETTING
THE SUGAR QUEEN
SUMMER BLOWOUT
THREE GIRLS AND THEIR BROTHER
TRAUMA
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH: Stories
WICKED CITY
WINTER STUDY: An Anna Pigeon Novel
WIT’S ENDNONFICTION:
APPLES & ORANGES: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
ARNIE AND JACK: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest RivalryIan O’Connor
Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547237862
THE BILLIONAIRE’S VINEGAR: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of WineBenjamin Wallace
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307338785
GIRLS LIKE US: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a GenerationSheila Weller
Washington Square Press
ISBN: 9780743491488
GOD IS NOT GREAT: How Religion Poisons Everything
HOME: A Memoir of My Early Years
I LIVE FOR THIS: Baseball's Last True BelieverBill Plaschke and Tommy Lasorda
Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547237886
IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: An Eater's Manifesto
MADNESS: A Bipolar Life
THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomSimon Winchester
Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060884611
NIXONLAND: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaRick Perlstein
Scribner
ISBN: 9780743243032
PASSIONATE NATION: The Epic History of Texas
THE PRINCE OF FROGTOWN
THE SECOND PLANE: September 11: Terror and Boredom
UP TILL NOW: The AutobiographyWilliam Shatner, with David Fisher
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN: 9780312561635
WE WOULD HAVE PLAYED FOR NOTHING: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They LovedFay Vincent
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416553434
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